Salsipuedes: Challenges for Ecotourism in Mexico’s Baja California
By torres
In the construction of a framework for forging a socially acceptable and politically viable style of growth that respects natural resources and guarantees their rational use and their preservation for future generations, innumerable forces converge. Sometimes these forces are at odds with each other. They come from the federal, state, and municipal governments, from national [...]
Read more →Support Americas, NAFTA, Uribe’s Impatience, Wall St. & Immigration, Argentina’s Elected Family, Indian Borderlands, Brazilians Want Mine Back
By CIP Americas
Dear Friends, Welcome to the latest Americas Updater. Take a moment to check out our latest articles. Adam Isacson writes on the end of talks to free Colombian hostages—complete with a balanced critique of both Uribe and Chávez, as well as recommendations for moving forward. There’s also analysis of the impact of free trade on [...]
Read more →Wall Street and Immigration: Financial Services Giants Have Profited from the Beginning
Life began to get hard for most Americans beginning in the late 1990s due to increased family debt. During the same period, life got a lot harder for most Mexicans for the same reason. The same financial institutions created and profited from much of the family debt in both countries. According to census reports, 70% [...]
Read more →Negotiations for Colombian Hostage Release Deserved More Time
By Adam Isacson
With President Uribe’s decision to cut off a negotiations process led by Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, hope that the FARC guerrillas will release long-held kidnapping victims has faded once again. Meanwhile, relations between Venezuela and Colombia have sharply deteriorated. Recent events can be traced back to June 2001, when the peace process in Colombia was limping [...]
Read more →Latin America: The Downside of the GM Revolution
By ruizmarrero
As genetically modified soybeans take over vast tracts in South America and reports flow in of genetic contamination of local corn in Mesoamerica, grassroots resistance to biotech crops has also grown. The protests form part of people’s movements across the hemisphere that tie together a rejection of neoliberalism and agribusiness, and call for land reform, [...]
Read more →Indigenous Peoples Vow to Bring Down Apartheid Border Wall
The Indigenous Peoples’ Border Summit of the Americas 2007 began with a human rights delegation visit to the border and after four days of activities concluded with a vow to "bring down the wall." Indigenous delegates to the border on Tohono O’odham Nation land took a tour of conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border here and [...]
Read more →Brazilian People Say “No” to Private Mining
By vazquez
In a plebiscite organized by 200 social organizations, almost four million people demanded that the CVRD, the second largest mining company in the world, be put back in the hands of the Brazilian government. The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), the Unique Workers’ Center (CUT), and about 200 other social organizations celebrated the first week [...]
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