Sunday is also election day in Peru, where a new president will be elected, along with all 190 seats in Congress of Peru (60 senators, 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies). The president and vice president are elected as a ticket in s standard...
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I had Alberto Fujimori on my obituary list, but I never got around to writing it. Too bad, but now he's dead and any decent person should say this--good. When.
The problem with these poorly regulated carbon market schemes is that the replicate the exact same problems that is destroying the planet's ecosystem to begin with. This is a great.
I suppose it's fairly well-known that I do not have the reflexive obsession with nonviolence in politics that dominates the minds of American liberals. Violence is usually a bad idea for a movement--that's the fundamental problem. It almost always backfires. But it's not a moral...
This is a really powerful piece about how indigenous peoples in South America have integrated the horrors of the rubber baron era into their oral histories and storytelling style. “After.
Your must read of the morning is William Finnegan's essay on the highest settlement in the world, which is an unregulated gold mine town in Peru. As I've said before,.
Illegal logging is not something the progressive community takes particularly seriously, but it's actually a very big deal, not only in Brazil (where it does get attention) but in Mexico (where the cartels have expanded their operations) as well as in Peru, as discussed here....