For the first time in many years, the mining industry has taken a dip in Latin America. The fall in international prices and increased production costs, and the resulting decrease in profits, is compounded by society’s growing resistance to its environmental and social impacts.
La Corte Internacional de Justicia de La Haya encontró el 24 de septiembre de 2015 que tiene jurisdicción en la Obligación de Negociar Acceso al Océano Pacífico (Bolivia vs. Chile).
Por primera vez en muchos años, la minería retrocede en América Latina. A la caída de los precios internacionales y al aumento de los costos de producción, con la consiguiente disminución de las ganancias, se le suma la creciente resistencia de la sociedad por los impactos ambientales y sociales.
La historia social y ambiental de las Amazonas Brasileñas por los últimos cuatro años ha estado gobernada por finalización de monumentales proyectos de infraestructura, especialmente en transportación y generación de energía.
At the end of the campaign, the opposition is striving to create the belief in chaos, breakdowns in authority and internal struggles in Kirchnerism. But although tensions do exist, it seems like the transition will take place in a climate of stability and tranquility.
It has been 15 years since the creation of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA), and from the perspective of its contribution to integration, evaluation is necessary.
The Brazilian Amazon’s social and environmental history in the last forty years has been governed by the completion of monumental infrastructure projects, especially in transportation and energy generation.
The right and the financial sector got the Workers’ Party (PT) and Dilma Rousseff’s government to agree to advance its neoliberal program and its close alliance with Washington.
The government of Brazil is on a determined path to place the country among the list of nations that have restructured their legal framework as it pertains to antiterrorism statutes, even though Brazil has never experienced an actual terrorist attack.
At a time when Brazil is going through severe economic and political instability, the rapprochement of the United States could cut the wings of a region that had taken solid steps toward independence, and reaffirm its subordination as “backyard.”
