Day: September 30, 2005

Within the past ten years, important environmental developments have taken place in Mexico. Some examples are: Mexico banned the dangerous pesticide DDT in 2000, a year before other countries joined to ratify

Marcelo Itagiba’s office is immaculate. His desk is a fine piece of furniture, built of beautiful wood and adorned with intricately designed carvings. Two cell phones, three land lines, and a radio

Resumen Ejecutivo Que es el terrorismo No hay una definición universalmente aceptada de terrorismo. Inclusive las dependencias del gobierno estadounidense utilizan diferentes definiciones. Para lo que toca a esta agenda, hemos adoptado

There is a popular saying in Argentina: más vale estar solo que mal acompañado (better to be alone than in bad company). Increasingly Argentines are wondering whether it isn’t time to go

On May 22, 1987, Guatemalan guerillas hijacked the frequency of a state-approved radio station to broadcast their popular revolutionary message. Voz Popular, the voice of Guatemala’s guerilla party, the URNG, transmitted from

One of the cornerstones of the neoliberal policies adopted by most Latin American governments in the 1990s was the privatization of state-owned enterprises. This process of passing national wealth on to the

(This policy briefing is the first of a series of post-election reports planned by the IRC program staff. It will be followed by regional reports, covering topics such as the current state

Editor’s note: At the last U.S.-Mexico Binational Meeting on November 9, Secretary of State Colin Powell dashed hopes for an integral immigration reform in the near future. Delivering the line of the

On Wednesday and Friday afternoons, hundreds of poor children find their only meal of the day at Haiti’s Sainte Claire’s Catholic Church. On Wednesday October 13, they were joined by masked and