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Number 330 | Enero 2009 |
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Nicaragua
Abuse as Usual Means Many Accounts to Settle
Neither apologizing nor accounting for the massive fraud
committed in last November’s municipal elections,
the Ortega government has started this new year
Hell-bent on imposing its long-term project.
In what promises to be an uncertain
and certainly economically harsh year,
that project has already racked up many debts.... continuar...
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE? Following the Latin American presidential summit in Brazil in mid-December, where he failed to get a word of support in its final document despite a vehement denunciation... continuar...
Nicaragua
Public Finances, and Thus the Common Good, Are Being Abused
This expert in fiscal law analyzes the
exceptional national situation and the
current government’s deficient, incoherent
and elitist economic policy.... continuar...
Nicaragua
The Lessons of Mitch: Learned, Not Learned and Unlearned
Ten years after Hurricane Mitch, we returned to the places we visited back then and looked again at all the reports of efforts to respond to that disaster. This article summarizes that enterprise, which led to this conclusion:
a long road is still ahead if we are to change our
mindset and our political environment.... continuar...
El Salvador
The Crystal Ball Is Still Cloudy
Political analysts of all stripes claimed for months
that the January 18 municipal and legislative elections would
herald various portents for March’s presidential elections.
But the results didn’t forecast clear omens.
The crystal ball is still cloudy.... continuar...
México
Zapatistas Organize the First Global Festival of Dignified Rage
The Zapatistas called a festival
so that all dignified rages in the world could
come together, meet, talk and listen to each other.
The idea was to discover the plurality of rages and
accept the differences involved in experiencing them.
The festival’s conclusion was to “make a deal to
fight together for the whole and for what
corresponds to each and every one.”... continuar...
Internacional
Darwin’s 200th Anniversary: There’s So Much More to Learn
This year the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of
Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the
publication of his theory of evolution in The Origin of Species.
Here in Nicaragua, we’re celebrating the eminent natural scientist
who taught us “the trick of life” by recalling the central issues
he showed us and lamenting the many we still need
to understand and embrace.... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America