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Setiembre 2006

Not all gold glitters: Corporate gold-fever breeds resistance in Central America

29.09.2006 For trans-national mining conglomerates, like GlamisGold, it�s a business that pays: The worldwide demand for silver and gold is as keen as seldom before. In search of new gold veins they expand to Central America.

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Organizaci�n: Centro de Comunicaci�n Voces Nuestras
Temas relacionados: [Centroam�rica] [Ambiente] [Activismo Ambiental] [Sociedad Civil]

Imagen: Mina Marlin, Guatemala.

Mexico's Two Presidents

28.09.2006 On September 16, over one million people raised their hands in a vote to recognize center-left leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the �legitimate president� of Mexico... This act of civil resistance ushered in a new stage in an electoral conflict that has developed into an all-out battle for the country's future.

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Organizaci�n: Agencia Latinoamericana de Informaci�n
Temas relacionados: [M�xico] [Pol�tica] [Activismo]

The Limitations of Elections in the Construction of Democracy

27.09.2006 Here in Brazil, the country is on the eve of the first round of elections at the state and national level. It is the fifth time since the end of the military dictatorship that Brazilians will vote for a president, state governors and representatives. The social movements struggled hard for this right to vote�has it made a difference for the Brazilian people?

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Organizaci�n: Brazil Justice Net
Temas relacionados: [Brasil] [Pol�tica] [Democracia]

Landless Workers Movement: The Difficult Construction of a New World

Protesto do MST e outras organiza��es em favor da agricultura familiar.

27.09.2006 The campesinos of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST, for the Portuguese initials) dreamed for years of reclaiming their land, believing that it would solve all their problems... However, the reality would prove much more difficult, for surprises they had never imagined lay ahead.

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Organizaci�n: International Relations Center
Temas relacionados: [Brasil] [Desarrollo] [Exclusi�n Social] [Tierra]

Imagen: Protesto do MST e outras organiza��es em favor da agricultura familiar. © Radio Netherlands / Radio Netherlands

�Another Colombia is possible with a conscious people�

21.09.2006 Interview with Father Antonio Bonanomi, a 72-year-old Italian Catholic missionary, who has lived in Colombia since 1979, and is a harsh critic of Colombian President �lvaro Uribe.

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Organizaci�n: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
Temas relacionados: [Colombia] [Derechos Humanos] [Democracia] [Gobierno]

Imagen: © Radio Netherlands

Oaxaca's Dangerous Teachers

21.09.2006 Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as he was driving to his school in the rural Mixteca region. Police took him to Oaxaca de Juarez, the state capital, where he was held for days on false charges.

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Temas relacionados: [M�xico] [Derechos Civiles] [Conflicto]

Imagen: www.notiarandas.com

Armed Conflict Creating Crisis in Education for 43 million Children, New Save the Children Report Finds

19.09.2006 More than 43 million children living in countries wracked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school, according to a new report published today by Save the Children.

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Organizaci�n: Save The Children
Temas relacionados: [Derechos Humanos] [Juventud] [Ni�os]

Till Debt Do Us Part: Lessons from Argentina�s Experience with the IMF, Debt, and Financial Crises

16.09.2006 Argentina's spectacular December 2001 financial crisis and default have received much attention and media coverage, with many interpretations being offered for its causes and consequences.

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Organizaci�n: International Relations Center
Temas relacionados: [Argentina] [Desarrollo] [Econom�a] [Deuda]

Imagen: www.roadjunky.com

IMF quota proposals

14.09.2006 After months of official wrangling and European stalling, proposals for changing IMF quotas, which determine financial contributions and voting power in the organisation, have coalesced around a small ad hoc increase for four countries, a commitment to make the quota formula more closely match economic realities and an increase in the basic vote.

Imagen: Banco Mundial y FMI deben cambiar su modelo

The geopolitics of Latin American forign debt

12.09.2006 Despite its importance, consideration of foreign debt over the last few years has been diffuse and blurred. Whereas in the 1980s foreign debt was the focus of argument, twenty years later it appears as a marginal issue, as much in discussion of public policy on the development financing of alternatives to the current model as in critical theory.

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