Tag: Ideas
Co-author Deborah Delgado
After more than two decades of intensification of extractive activities in Peru, the affected rural areas show no improvement or increase in services, but rather a growing distrust of the centralist state.
Cuando el principio de “no intervención” se esgrime para sustraerse de los compromisos regionales, hemisféricos e internacionales en materia de Derechos Humanos y defensa de la democracia, no se protege a las sociedades sino a regímenes y gobernantes que las lesionan.
Co-author Robson Dias da Silva
The first Latin American country to become a republic, Haiti is one of the poorest in the world. Nearly two-thirds of its population survives on subsistence agriculture geared to the domestic market.
In the midst of the sharpest political confrontation of the last decades, Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo are on the way to define on Sunday, June 6, who will preside the country as of July 28, the date on which the bicentennial of national independence will be commemorated.
Colombia and Peru share similarities. After the end of the Cold War, they maintained their armed conflicts, experienced the most radical liberalization policies of the continent and the marked centralism led the elites to live with their backs turned to the needs of a large part of the population.
In few countries in the region does governance depend as much on parliamentary activity as it does in Peru. Both because of its constitutional design and the accentuated political fragmentation of the country, the Congress has been the epicenter of the different political crises that the nation has experienced in its recent history.
Co-author Leonardo E. Stanley
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, average temperatures have gradually increased. However, in the last five decades the increase has accelerated and has placed humanity on the edge of ecological security.
The pragmatic liberalism with which Fujimori decided and settled his dispensation, led him to pierce and definitively destroy a system that -although not perfect- still made some sense. In this way, he was able to make a country to his own specifications, which needed to be led by an autocratic president.
Los movimientos de personas ante la Covid-19 se han visto reducidos drásticamente. En 2020, gobiernos de todo el mundo tomaron diversas medidas para cerrar sus fronteras para regular el ingreso del virus, pero también y aún más el de personas. Esta es la primera vez que casi todos los países del mundo compartieron políticas restrictivas al ingreso de personas.
The cross of ideas between Fernández and Lacalle Pou ("freeing oneself from the corset" vs. "getting off the boat"), minor and anecdotal, will nevertheless be recorded as an episode that reflects the existing differences and their implications: an eventual fork in the road between the countries of the Southern Cone.