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Number 422 | Septiembre 2016 |
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Nicaragua
To vote or not to vote? That is the question
Everything Daniel Ortega has done since June
to delegitimize Nicaragua’s upcoming elections
has steadily increased international concern
about what’s going on in this country.
Inside Nicaragua itself, it has led to a rephrasing
of Hamlet’s existential question “To be or not to be”
into the political question “To vote or not to vote.”
With less than two months to go until election day,
the question is being debated more and more
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua briets
MASAYA VOLCANO
National Geographic’s documentary producer Sam Cossman and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazinsky left Nicaragua at the end of August after capturing magnificent images of the... continuar...
Nicaragua
The task right now is to avoid the consolidation of a family dictatorship
Known as Comandante “Modesto” in the guerrilla struggle against Somoza,
and one of the nine members of the FSLN’s historical National Directorate,
the respected author offers broad brushstrokes of Nicaragua’s reality today
then calls on the population to abstain from voting in the
November 6 elections.
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Nicaragua
Thousands of African migrants on our borders
Central American governments, including ours,
were able to keep quiet for years about Africans
arriving on our borders, but they no longer can.
Thousands are coming and will keep on doing so,
for many interrelated reasons, no longer just “economic”
or the pull of the American Dream.
The presence of certain African nationalities
is increasing at the same rate as lucrative investments
in biofuels, land grabbing and expulsions.
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Nicaragua
What does settler Catalino’s story tell us?
Mestizo settlers and indigenous people
are both pieces in a perverse chess game
between local and extra-regional power groups
in the Caribbean Coast.
We find scenes from this dispute in Bosawás.
When it comes to power there are no good guys and bad guys,
just useful and useless ones, depending on the moment’s interests.
The aim of this text’s author is to promote a critical debate
that more adequately describes who the settlers are,
as they are frequently pegged without nuance as
the bad guys.
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Honduras
Two campaign paths crossing: Clinton-Kaine’s and Hernández’s
Honduras has entered the
Democratic Party’s electoral campaign
at a time when Juan Orlando Hernández’s
reelection project is moving steadily forward.
The Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine presidential campaign
in the US is linked to Hernández’ reelection in two ways:
Kaine has “a love” for Honduras that goes way back,
and JOH has US support to keep governing.
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Internacional
The challenge to avoid catastrophe is to reunite power and politics
Philosophy professor Jordi Corominas
has selected texts by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman,
known for his studies on modernity and postmodernity,
to speak of these times in which loves and fears,
surveillance and art are what Bauman terms “liquid.”
In these reflections Bauman warns of the profound changes
that will be required if we are to avoid more violent scenarios
and even wars between nations.
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America