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Number 411 | Octubre 2015 |
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Nicaragua
Image at all cost
The government is only offering halfway measures
for the outbreaks of violence on the Caribbean coast,
the severe drought in a large part of the country,
and uncertainties about the proposed canal’s
environmental and financial viability.
Hunger and violence have no place
in the image of Nicaragua being peddled.
A “blessed” country attractive to investors
and the dream of the interoceanic canal
are critical to the image that’s expected
to see Ortega reelected once more.
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Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BREVES
FENACOOP FORCIBLY “DISSOLVED”
On September 3, paradoxically the Day of the Peasant, the presidency ordered the Ministry of the Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy to forcibly... continuar...
Nicaragua
We have to expand our thinking to understand the conflicts on the coast
This researcher into the rural—particularly indigenous—world
and facilitator of organizational innovation and development processes
shares his unique perspective and reflections on the cultural aspects
of the North Caribbean Coast’s indigenous and mestizo populations
that underlie the land conflicts reaching a boiling point there
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Nicaragua
A longstanding need: Credit for the rural poor
Poverty is greatest in Nicaragua’s rural zones.
How do the rural poor survive?
How has their world changed?
What’s the history of rural credit?
Are the banks and micro-financing institutions
offering credit to the poorest in the countryside today?
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El Salvador
The steep road to gender equity
“We have to transform our way of thinking
and our machista culture; we have to change,”
said President Salvador Sánchez Cerén
on International Women’s Day this year.
One step forward, two steps back...
That’s how change has been
on the steep road of gender equity,
but a long stretch has been traveled
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Guatemala
The many preludes to the 2015 mobilizations
Some described the August 27 demonstration
demanding President Pérez Molina’s resignation
as «the largest demonstration in the country’s history.»
Up to 120,000 protested in Guatemala City’s Central Square:
Big numbers, big words, resonating with memory,
reflection and historic comparisons.
Let’s recall some of this mobilization’s many preludes...
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Internacional
Words for building“our common house”
With his speech to a packed and expectant plenary,
Pope Francis opened the UN’s 70th General Assembly Session,
in which all the world’s countries pledged to meet the
17 new Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
These were his words, which received several ovations.... continuar...
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