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Last Number: January 2010
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Take, for example, the venture capitalist (Diego Valenzuela) who has found profi t in banking the unbanked; or Colombia's Minister of Culture (Paula Moreno) who is rewriting a more inclusive history of Colombia; or the young leader of the conservative arena party in El Salvador (Julio Rank Wright), who is helping his party reach out to the poor and marginalized. Our non-feature article on the "Arms Race in the Andes" by Financial Times reporter Naomi Mapstone is an acute analysis of the hang...
Civil Rights Movement UNITED STATES 1950S-1960S The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee emerged from a series of meetings at Shaw University in April 1960 and went on to play a vital role in the massive waves of sit-ins, demonstrations and "freedom rides" that paved the way for legislation that outlawed racial discrimination in the United States. Tlatelolco Massacre MEXICO, 1968 Mexico City university students demonstrated against the national government to demand the release of politi...
SOMETIMES WE FEEL a twinge of envy when we hear our parents' romantic stories about protesting the Vietnam War or fighting for social justice and civil rights, but those stories usually end by comparing their idealism with our generation's supposed individualism, self-absorption and apathy. [...] around the world, civil society is creating an ever-increasing number of NGOs, non-profit foundations, charities, and philanthropic organizations to fill the vacuum left by the decline of political ...
In 1992, El Salvador gave the world a lesson in peacebuilding and reconciliation after the first Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) president, Alfredo Cristiani, and FMLN leadership signed a peace accord in Mexico City putting an end to the 12-year civil war This became my first lesson in democracy and institutional responsibility. According to the National Census and Statistical Office, 2009 would include 120,000 new voters.
In Lima, she worked as a domestic employee. [...] I turned 15, I spent four months out of the year in Puquiosanto and frequently visited El Carmen, a tourist community rich in Afro-Peruvian poetry and dance, where my father lived.
In Quebec, we are putting in place measures to reduce our oil dependency by promoting increased electricity use in the transportation sector, greater use of renewable energy and improved energy efficiency as well as the use of bunker fuels and a carbon tax, to name a few examples. [...] my involvement with governments, business or even my position as adviser for Cycle Capital Management, one of North America's largest clean-technology venture capital funds.
When Web designer Óscar Morales created the Facebook page Un milión de voces contra las FARC from his home in Barranquilla in January 2008, he sparked a 12-million person, 200-city march that has become a model and inspiration for social and political mobilization.
From 1930 to 1983, Argentina's governments lacked the essential qualities that make a democracy competitive, even though many called themselves democratic. Since that first election in 1983, as we vote time and again, we have managed to fine-tune the essential elements of democracy and safeguard Argentine sovereignty.
According to Latinobarómetro (2008), 77 percent of Argentines consider democracy, although it has faults, to still be the best form of government. [...] the two of us have been working on legislative projects to bring about political reform at a federal and citywide level, specifically in Buenos Aires.
Established in 1995 to create and manage centers or programs that promote community development, we aim to train new leaders. Since 2003, Fondation Espoir's Program of Champions has trained more than 1,000 young Haitians in development.
The "Menem Decade" of Carlos Saúl Menem (1989 to 1999) that followed was characterized by unprecedented levels of corruption, a pardoning of the military for crimes committed under its reign, and an ever-widening breach between those in power and the young people interested in public affairs. The disconnect between the political class and the rest of society is likely to continue to generate short circuits that will perpetuate political and economic instability and hinder development. [...]...
Consolidated and greener data centers, open and secure networks, customized applications, and agile content delivery to the ultra-thin and greenest peripherals were a dream for a long time. Recently, I was involved in a project in Asia that involved the investment of millions of dollars by commercial banks to connect farmers in remote rural villages without digital or financial means to open and secure online banking systems.
In 1994, Patricio and his brother Ricardo co-founded Imagen Dental, a company that provides world-class dental, optical and hearing services to middle and lower income patients in Mexico's Monterrey state at affordable prices. Since its creation, the company has grown to include 26 clinics that employ well over 200 doctors.
Among us are children of M-19 activists like Ricardo Villa Salcedo, union leaders like Guillermo Rivera Fúquene (who disappeared in Bogotá a year ago), human rights lawyers like Alirio Pedraza, and also social leaders like Gilma Benítez who have fought for campesino land rights and for those who have been displaced by our internal conflict. Since the violence has not ended, we believe it is important to make clear that the struggle against those who want a more equal, peaceful world continue...
Along the way, Barragán has found a successful business model in helping companies like Coca-Cola and Merck to brand themselves through beautifully designed promotional books.
Like their counterparts elsewhere, inventive young Argentines saw the potential for Internet technology to change the way information was transmitted and were quick to translate their ideas into commercial enterprises. There are few resources in Latin America or Argentina that provide training in areas such as how to obtain seed capital for ideas or how to develop a business plan.
Profile: Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga
Led by Ross, REDBOL lobbied successfully to pass a 2007 law that made antiretroviral medications available to all Bolivians with HIV/AIDS and outlawed discrimination against infected patients (Bolivia has among the hemisphere's lowest infection rates [1 percent], but Ross explains that rates are increasing as HIV/AIDS testing becomes more widespread).
Optimists assert or hope that China will seek to integrate itself into the international system by and large as it currently exists, or evolves in response to new challenges, striving to increase its voice and vote but not to radically transform; on the other hand, pessimists look to history and demographics and foresee a China characterized by very divergent political structures and values striving, albeit gradually, to challenge the U.S. for global leadership and to remake the international...
WITNESS was founded on the belief that putting cameras in the hands of human rights advocates would create a new way to mobilize for change. [...] video and new communications technologies have spread like wildfire-especially in the global north-and now allow us to connect to others around the world instantly. According to YouTube, an average 20 hours of footage is uploaded to their website every minute.
According to Beteta, The state can't cover all the needs of everyone in [...]
EMPOWERING CIVIL SERVANTS IN BUENOS AIRES Daniel Scioli, governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, had no doubt about the transformational power of technology when he set out to improve citizen services through a digital agenda that included broadening access to public information, enabling a universal access point for small and medium businesses and complementing learning for students through a "digital school." To help bring thousands more small businesses into the age of e-gove...
The experience I have with human rights is a harsh experience that began with the extrajudicial execution of my sister, Myrna, by the Guatemalan army in 1990. What Advice Do You Have for the Next Generation of Leaders? CLAUDIA LÓPEZ is a political analyst for Lasillavacia.com and Caracol Radio and director of Colombia's Civil Society Electoral Mission Observatory for Democracy.
"[...] cities" are less frequently visited by international journalists, scholars and officials, and are often outside the scope of U.S. media coverage, which tends to focus on the largest cities: According to business climate surveys compiled by the World Bank, Medellín is now the second most competitive non-capital city in Latin America, behind only Córdoba in Argentina.
[Other issues] include poverty and a general lack of opportunities and access to education, which have demoralized our young people. [...] education becomes a priority for the state and the private sector, I don't see any real potential for change. There is an absurd level of violence due to that lack of opportunity.
Mixed Signals for Latin America's Aeronautics
The airline, founded in the mid-1960s but closed since 1990, enjoyed its comeback at a time when markets had hit bottom, aircraft production had slowed and airlines were reducing their flight frequencies. [...] the bottom line for most aviation service providers- aircraft manufacturers, airline and airport operations or technical or professional personnel- depends directly on one element: the general public.
A joint Mexican National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) and American Civil Liberties Union report released in September 2009 based on bodies recovered in the deadliest area of the border zone found that the risk of death during an attempted crossing is 1.5 times higher than in 2004 and 17 times higher than in 1998.One factor in the rising death rate may be a change in the composition of the migrant flow. According to Magdalena, her sons arrived in Tijuana, Baja California, on July 14, 200...
The book traces the short life of an earlier, unfulfilled U.S.-Brazil alliance that reached its high point in February 1976-when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, greeted like a celebrity, traveled to Brasilia to sign a historic accord committing the Western Hemisphere's two biggest powers to regular, high-level foreign policy consultations. [...] the period of intense bilateral diplomacy came to an abrupt halt just one year later when incoming President Jimmy Carter cast a harsher li...
Migration From the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California
According to the book, an estimated 30 percent of Tlacotepec's 3,307 residents have left town, having migrated to more economically developed parts of Mexico or to the United States.
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities By Maria Victoria Murillo Cambridge University Press, 2009, Softcover, 312 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT International markets, in today's inter-connected world, play an increasingly important role in shaping domestic economic policy. [...] populist reformers-who pragmatically converted to liberalization in light of international and domestic economic incentives-implemented "market controlling" ...
The museum reopened in October, following an 18-month renovation, with both structural improvements and an expansion of its public programming to include more free or low-cost concerts, lectures, fi lms, and cultural celebrations.