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    Drugs on Latin America summit's agenda
    April 2012
    Martin Jelsma

    A critical rethink of the war on drugs features prominently on the agenda of the Cartagena summit. This provides opportunities to move forward but also faces several risks that could suffocate the remarkable yet incipient political opening of the drugs debate in Latin America.

    Audio: Farmers speak out to defend land sovereignty
    October 2011
    Radio Mundo Real

    Social movement representatives are in Rome this week for the final UN negotiations to adopt voluntary guidelines that would regulate the use and possession of land and other natural resources.

    Meeting the challenge of feeding the world and cooling the Earth
    July 2011
    Jun Borras

    Two papers analysing the recent experience of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, support arguments that a shift from industrial-large scale farming to small-scale farming can bring environmental, economic and political benefits.

    Colombia: A successful case for the war on drugs?
    January 2011
    Ricardo Vargas

    Is Colombia's narcotrafficking situation comparable to that of Mexico, including the strategies needed to combat it?

    Military Force Isn't the Answer in Mexico's Drug Wars
    November 2010
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Mexicans don't want the current ill conceived war on drugs. It is fought with disregard to the high costs in terms of human rights and lives and mistakenly portrayed as 'courageous'.

    Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
    October 2010
    Bob Thomson

    We have to talk to, learn from and support the indigenous movements which have inserted ecosocialist and degrowth like concepts into the formal constitutions, as in the states of Bolivia and Ecuadorian.

    Misguided U.S. economic policies drive many Mexicans to come here
    August 2010
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Most immigrants would prefer to stay at home with their families and live their own culture, eat their own food, and listen to their own music.

    BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come: Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster
    July 2010
    Michael Klare

    The BP Gulf oil spill is not an anomaly but the result of industry-wide recklessness, as companies employ more and more risky methods to reach inaccessible reserves as the conventional ones run dry.

    Hulp VS in Mexicaanse strijd tegen drugs
    March 2010
    Tom Blickman

    De Verenigde Staten gaan Mexico helpen in de strijd tegen drugs. Een delegatie onder leiding van de Amerikaanse ministers Clinton en Gates, belooft Mexico onder meer geld en extra manschappen. Tom Blickman van Transnational Institute doet onderzoek naar drugsbeleid over de hele wereld en schat...

    The struggle of electricians in Mexico goes on (Part 2, final)
    January 2010
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Behind the shutdown of the Mexico's Central Power and Lighting Company is Calderón's obligation to fulfill his commitments with foreign corporations.

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