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Dismal Approval Ratings For Both Of Chile’S Principal Coalitions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Oct 2011

Dismal Approval Ratings For Both Of Chile’S Principal Coalitions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Proposed Highway Pits Bolivia's Indigenous Against Each Other And President Evo Morales, Andrés Gaudín Oct 2011

Proposed Highway Pits Bolivia's Indigenous Against Each Other And President Evo Morales, Andrés Gaudín

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

Native peoples from the Bolivian Amazonia—the lowlands—who do not feel represented by President Evo Morales are staging a prolonged protest against the construction of a highway through a natural park that is also their ancestral habitat. On Aug. 15, they began a more than 600 km march to La Paz, the capital, planning to arrive in the second half of October. They will meet directly with Morales, who is also indigenous and the first head of state to receive an indigenous delegation at the Palacio Quemado, the seat of government.


Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's Alianza Por El Cambio Falls Apart, Louisa Reynolds Oct 2011

Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's Alianza Por El Cambio Falls Apart, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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Nossa And Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues, Robert Patrick Newcomb Oct 2011

Nossa And Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues, Robert Patrick Newcomb

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic José Enrique Rodó, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazil's …


Proposed Highway Pits Bolivia's Indigenous Against Each Other And President Evo Morales, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Oct 2011

Proposed Highway Pits Bolivia's Indigenous Against Each Other And President Evo Morales, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Ecuador Examines Freedom Of Speech, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra Oct 2011

Ecuador Examines Freedom Of Speech, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Nicaragua: Rosy Growth Numbers An Added Boost For President Daniel Ortega As Election Nears, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Oct 2011

Nicaragua: Rosy Growth Numbers An Added Boost For President Daniel Ortega As Election Nears, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Belizean Gang Suppression Unit Accused Of Human Rights Violations, Louisa Reynolds Oct 2011

Belizean Gang Suppression Unit Accused Of Human Rights Violations, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Drug Violence, Extortions Affect Some School Districts In Mexico, Carlos Navarro Oct 2011

Drug Violence, Extortions Affect Some School Districts In Mexico, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Governing Partido Acciã³N Nacional Suffers Political Fallout From Recent Casino Arson In Monterrey, Carlos Navarro Oct 2011

Governing Partido Acciã³N Nacional Suffers Political Fallout From Recent Casino Arson In Monterrey, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Measuring Development Through Women’S Empowerment: A Case Of Comparison, Brazil & Bolivia, Stephanie Roberts, Kishore G. Kulkarni Oct 2011

Measuring Development Through Women’S Empowerment: A Case Of Comparison, Brazil & Bolivia, Stephanie Roberts, Kishore G. Kulkarni

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

In the past several decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of women’s empowerment in overall development. It is not sufficient to consider only economic growth, but rather we must also look to human development (and specifically that of women) when observing progress in any country. This can be difficult to define and measure, as one must be sensitive to cultural and historical differences as well as overall standards of living for a society. However, even considering these differences, it is essential that women be equal partners in the development process for their nations to truly be …


Venezuelan President Hugo Chã¡Vez Nationalizes Gold Industry, Repatriates Gold Reserves, Andrã©S Gaudin Oct 2011

Venezuelan President Hugo Chã¡Vez Nationalizes Gold Industry, Repatriates Gold Reserves, Andrã©S Gaudin

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Mexico’S Most Violent Drug Gang Sows Terror In Petã©N, Louisa Reynolds Oct 2011

Mexico’S Most Violent Drug Gang Sows Terror In Petã©N, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


More Than Half Of Border Governors Skip Annual Conference, Carlos Navarro Oct 2011

More Than Half Of Border Governors Skip Annual Conference, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Renewable Energy Best Practices In Promotion And Use For Latin America And The Caribbean, Andrea Luecke Oct 2011

Renewable Energy Best Practices In Promotion And Use For Latin America And The Caribbean, Andrea Luecke

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

According to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), the number of countries with policies directed at promoting renewable energy has doubled over the past five years (REN21, 2011. The United States, along with European and Asian countries, is actively promoting renewable energy to catalyze and achieve profound economic and environmental changes. By contrast, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been slow to adopt renewable energy because of poverty, lack of awareness, and lack of government support to mitigate climate change, stabilize energy supplies, or invest in innovation (UN Industrial Development Organization, 2011). …


Perspectives For Distributed Generation With Renewable Energy In Latin America And The Carribean: Analysis Of Case Studies For Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, And Chile, Christiaan Gischler, Nils Janson Oct 2011

Perspectives For Distributed Generation With Renewable Energy In Latin America And The Carribean: Analysis Of Case Studies For Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, And Chile, Christiaan Gischler, Nils Janson

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This paper deals with how to promote distributed generation (DG) done with renewable energy (RE) in emerging markets of Latin American & the Carribean (LAC), with the purpose of increasing competitiveness & achieving sustainable economic growth. It also argues that the key rationale for promoting renewable DG in LAC is to reduce the cost of electricity for a country as a whole. The paper examines four case studies (Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, & Chile) to assess what these countries are or are not doing, and why, in promoting renewable DG, and finds that they have some viable options for renewable DG …


Boletín V.17:No.1 (2011), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute Oct 2011

Boletín V.17:No.1 (2011), Fordham University Latin American And Latino Studies Institute

Boletín (Fordham University. Latin American and Latino Studies Institute)

No abstract provided.


Peru: Building The Road To Change, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Sep 2011

Peru: Building The Road To Change, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Hiv Prevalence In Cuba Remains Low, But Prejudice And Stigmas Remain, Daniel Vã¡Zquez Sep 2011

Hiv Prevalence In Cuba Remains Low, But Prejudice And Stigmas Remain, Daniel Vã¡Zquez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Mexico Forges Ahead With Tourism Promotion Despite Ongoing Drug-Related Violence, Carlos Navarro Sep 2011

Mexico Forges Ahead With Tourism Promotion Despite Ongoing Drug-Related Violence, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


How Will Leadership Changes Affect Colombia's Oil Sector?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor Sep 2011

How Will Leadership Changes Affect Colombia's Oil Sector?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This month, Colombia gained a new energy minister, economist Mauricio Cardenas, but lost long time National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) head, Armando Zamora, amid allegations that oil royalties had been misused and scholarships had been unfairly given to relatives of top officials. Zamora has denied wrongdoing, and suggested social protests posed a bigger threat to the sector than corruption. Meanwhile, protests last week forced Canada's Pacific Rubiales, one of the largest oil producers in Colombia, to declare force majeure before coming to an agreement with demonstrators. What will the changes at the top of the energy ministry and ANH mean for …


After A Lull, Chile’S Education Reform Movement Marches On, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Sep 2011

After A Lull, Chile’S Education Reform Movement Marches On, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Battles Corruption Allegations In Her Administration, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Sep 2011

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Battles Corruption Allegations In Her Administration, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Costa Rica Decrees Moratorium On Oil Exploitation For Remainder Of President Chinchilla's Term, George Rodriguez Sep 2011

Costa Rica Decrees Moratorium On Oil Exploitation For Remainder Of President Chinchilla's Term, George Rodriguez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Mexico Announces Plan That Would Greatly Expand Wind-Energy Capacity, Carlos Navarro Sep 2011

Mexico Announces Plan That Would Greatly Expand Wind-Energy Capacity, Carlos Navarro

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

Mexico launched a number of projects in the first eight months of 2011 that would greatly expand the countrys capability to produce electricity from wind power. The new projects are all funded with private capital, with the largest announced in late July. Under this project, the California-based Cannon Power Group had agreed to invest about US$2.5 billion in the construction of three wind-power parks in Mexico. The facilities—in the states of Baja California, Zacatecas, and Quintana Roo--would have a combined capacity of 322 megawatts.'


Pemex Boosts Participation In Spain's Repsol, Prompting Some Nationalist Concerns In Spain, Carlos Navarro Sep 2011

Pemex Boosts Participation In Spain's Repsol, Prompting Some Nationalist Concerns In Spain, Carlos Navarro

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

It's not uncommon to see the state-run oil company PEMEX at the center of controversies regarding the designation of energy resources as the national patrimony of the nation's citizens. This debate has often been in connection with Mexico's crude oil, natural gas, and PEMEX itself. In late August, PEMEX found itself on the other side of the conflict when it teamed up with Spainbased construction and real estate company Sacyr Vallehermoso to boost their share of Spanish giant Repsol YPF SA. The two companies acknowledged that their intention was to restructure Repsol's management. Even though Spain's Constitution does not have …


Chiapas Prosecutor Files Manslaughter Charges Against Former Gov. Pablo Salazar Mendiguchã­A, Carlos Navarro Sep 2011

Chiapas Prosecutor Files Manslaughter Charges Against Former Gov. Pablo Salazar Mendiguchã­A, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Pemex Boosts Participation In Spain’S Repsol, Prompting Some Nationalist Concerns In Spain, Carlos Navarro Sep 2011

Pemex Boosts Participation In Spain’S Repsol, Prompting Some Nationalist Concerns In Spain, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Will Conflict Over Energy Sector Development Increase?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor Sep 2011

Will Conflict Over Energy Sector Development Increase?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

Last month, Per's Congress unanimously approved a landmark law that requires companies to consult with indigenous communities before beginning infrastructure, energy and mining projects on their territories, which is intended to help mitigate social conflicts that have threatened to derail billions of dollars in investment. Meanwhile, hundreds of indigenous people are leading a 526-kilometer march in Bolivia as a show of opposition to the construction of a highway being built through indigenous territory. As indigenous communities in the Andes become increasingly vocal in opposition to development plans, are their protests having a significant effect? Does their increasing clout threaten to …


President Cristina Fernã¡Ndez Poised To Win Re-Election, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Sep 2011

President Cristina Fernã¡Ndez Poised To Win Re-Election, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.