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Number 410 | Septiembre 2015 |
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Nicaragua
Centralism + secrecy: A toxic combination
The governing couple’s centralization of all decision-making and
its penchant for secrecy are causing government inefficiency and paralysis.
And in the population itself, they are breeding confusion, distrust and fears.
History shows that this anti-democratic model of governing is erosive.
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Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
NICA EXTRADITION REQUESTED
IN FIFA CORRUPTION CASE
On August 13, the Nicaraguan government formally asked the Swiss justice authorities to extradite Nicaraguan citizen Julio Rocha. He was... continuar...
Nicaragua
“The Police has changed its role to guarantee the regime’s security”
This expert on issues of citizens’ security and drug trafficking
paints us a Dorian Gray portrait of Nicaragua’s National Police
and analyzes the factors that have contributed to its transformation
from a force that protects the citizenry to one that protects the regime.
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Guatemala
Some pointers to understanding the “Guatemalan Spring”
Since April we’ve been seeing unprecedented events unfold in Guatemala.
This combination of surprising, novel and historical moments
has been dubbed by many the “Guatemalan Spring.”
Here are some of many pointers, some even contradictory,
to understanding what has happened and may still happen.,
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Honduras
What was won on the streets ...and what was lost
Three months of peaceful civic struggle
by people in the streets with lit torches in hand
triggered a dialogue that hasn’t been what we expected.
Nonetheless, everything that is achieved today in any arena
was the result of the energy and pressure of the torches
lit by thousands of people all over the country
with the cry of “JOH, get out!” and “We want a CICIH.”
The torches unexpectedly and positively turned reality around
but they didn’t control the direction it took.
Now the 2009 resistance and the
2015 indignant movement must unite.... continuar...
México
Elections in a country for sale
The midterm elections showed the PRI’s control of the institutions
and its lead role in impunity, corruption, the war against the people…
and the sale of the country.
The elections were crucial for Peña Nieto, who needs a likeminded Congress
to approve the next structural reforms, among them the privatization of water.
This need to assure the legislative majority explains why
he protected his “yes man” ally, the Green Party.... continuar...
Internacional
“The stakes are so high, time is so short and the task so large…”
“The invitation came as a complete surprise to me,”
Canadian writer and climate movement activist Naomi Klein told journalists
at the July 1 Vatican press conference to discuss Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudito Si’.”
“And I do believe that given the attacks that are coming from the Republican Party around this and the fossil fuel interests in the United States,
it was a particularly courageous decision to invite me here.”
Here are her words as a member of that panel.
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America