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Number 394 | Mayo 2014 |
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Nicaragua
Seismic red alert on the Ides of April
April will be forever marked in red on the calendar.
As the sun was setting the afternoon of Thursday, April 10,
the western side of Nicaragua was shaken by an earthquake
followed by continuous aftershocks and two more sizable quakes.
The mounting anxiety altered people’s plans for Holy Week
and wiped the government’s long-anticipated new moves
to consolidate its political project out of the headlines.... continuar...
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE As of May 3, the date of the last report before this issue closed, there had been a total of 661 aftershocks following the first earthquake on April 10. The red alert issued... continuar...
Nicaragua
Deceit, disappointment and anger are again accumulating in rural Nicaragua
Committed to the historical memory of the peasantry,
this author examines the peasant resistance of the eighties
and ensuing years to contribute to the urgently needed reflection
about the current situation in the country’s rural areas.... continuar...
Nicaragua
Caribbean Coast elections: Between conspiracy and responsibility
Regional elections were held on March 2 in the North and South Caribbean Coast. For the first time ever, the FSLN will have
the majority on both Regional Councils. Here are a few data, many questions and some important reflections on the dark and light aspects of these elections.... continuar...
México
Mexican democracy: Between what hasnt yet disappeared and what has yet to come
The fight for democracy isn’t over in Mexico, as we incorrectly believed in 2000. If the new spaces now opened up with the
independent candidacies are to democratize the country,
civil society must recover its role as a protagonist. Without the activation of civil society, the current political reform may well be no more than the beginning of an authoritarian restoration
cloaked in a modernizing veil.... continuar...
América Latina
The Solitude of Latin America
In 1982, on receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Gabriel García Márquez spoke in Sweden
in representation of all Latin America.
In his speech, “The solitude of Latin America,”
he reconstructed that period of our history,
defending our identity and our right to utopia.
Over 15 years later, in 1999, he opened a seminar
organized by the Inter-American Development Bank
in which “emerging leaders” of Latin America
were invited to reflect on our countries’ challenges
in the 21st century then nearly upon us.
We reproduce here his brief, provocative words both days,
two occasions among the many that showed us
a great person of our continent.... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America