Global Politics Online / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – Four months after Peru’s worst toxic spill of mining waste, workers at the Caudalosa mine are demanding that it be reopened, while local communities want more cleanup of the rivers they depend on for water supplies. Caudalosa, a Peruvian-owned mining company, [...]
Fighting Violence with Death in Guatemala
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – As the movement for the abolition of the death penalty gains ground worldwide, Guatemala is seeking to reintroduce capital punishment, which has been in legal limbo since 2000. Congress has already approved a law paving the way for the execution [...]
Military Jury Tried to “Send a Message” in Khadr Case
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – A military jury at Guantanamo Bay sentenced a "child soldier" to 40 years in prison – unaware that Omar Khadr’s defence and prosecution lawyers had already agreed on an eight-year sentence and further agreed that the United States would send [...]
Haitian Mothers Find Care in Dominican Republic, but Future Is Bleak
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – In the spacious lobby of the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia maternity hospital, more than a hundred people wait quietly in chairs, overlooked by a 20-foot-high coloured mosaic inset portraying the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. One [...]
ECUADOR: Diversity in Remembering the Dead
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians are set to visit cemeteries on Tuesday, the traditional "Día de Finados" (Day of the Deceased). But while city residents tend to spend the day in mourning, for many indigenous peoples it is a day of [...]
U.S. Slides on Corruption Index
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – Iraq and Afghanistan rank near rock-bottom in an index of corruption in 178 countries that found that nearly three- quarters of the countries surveyed showed serious corruption problems. Iraq ranked 175 and Afghanistan 176 in the global index, just above [...]
BRAZIL: Substantive Issues Missing from Election Campaign
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – In Brazil, 136 million voters will head to the polls in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, after a campaign heavy on recriminations and moralistic attacks and weak on substantive issues. The elections have been "tough and tense," said analyst Jairo [...]
