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Number 323 | Junio 2008 |
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Nicaragua
Nicaraguans Squeezed on All Sides
The pincer strategy designed by the FSLN-PLC pact nine years ago
forced the population into a bipartite electoral choice between
candidates hand-picked by Daniel Ortega or Arnoldo Alemán.
It was reactivated this month and combines with another
by two forces at work in Daniel Ortega’s government:
one privatizing state resources to family businesses
and the other party-izing social programs to serve
the governing couple’s political project.... continuar...
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
ABNORMAL CLIMATIC ACTIVITY Tropical storm Alma hit Nicaragua’s Pacific zone with unexpected force on May 29. The damage caused by its 60-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rains cast a pall on... continuar...
Nicaragua
We Need More Action and Less Talk About the Food Crisis
Reflections by a leader of Nicaragua’s agricultural cooperative movement
about the much-discussed food crisis and the lack of government policies
or coordinated actions by the different economic actors to deal with it.... continuar...
Nicaragua
Climate Change: We Can Already See What Our Future Will Be Like
Information on the effects—those already evident and those still to come—of climate change in Nicaragua.... continuar...
Guatemala
Deportation from the USA: An “Illegal” Guatemalan’s Tale
The author interviewed an indigenous migrant in his Quiché village and heard first-hand the hard reality of his deportation from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Guatemala after working in the United States for two years.... continuar...
México
The Struggle for a New Media Law: Who Owns the Airwaves?
Televisa and Televisión Azteca
control Mexico’s entire television audience.
The long, arduous struggle to break this “duo-poly”
and defend citizens from the media’s unfettered rule
hit a major stumbling block in April, but there will be
another decisive moment in September.... continuar...
América Latina
Strawberry Fields and Undocumented Workers Forever?
When I got to California’s Salinas Valley, my eyes swam in a sea of strawberries. Looking closer, I discovered the numbers in
an economy hungry for fresh strawberries and
reliant on a cheap and docile labor force.
Visiting the homes of several pickers,
I found struggle, clarity and change This is the story.... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America