Paul Chehade – Christmas Message / Mensaje de Navidad Best Wishes for Peace and Joy this Holiday Season And a New Year of Health, Happiness and Prosperity Best regards, Paul Chehade:. Christmas Message / Mensaje de Navidad • Christmas Message Dear Friends: We send greetings to those celebrating Christmas. During Christmas, we gather with family […]
Mathematician Demonstrated Solution to 271-year-old Conjecture
Written by Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe Peruvian mathematician [1] Harald Andrés Helfgott [2] made headlines after news [3] broke that he had demonstrated the solution to a 271-year-old problem in number theory. Back in 1742, Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach [4]‘s theory [5], known as Goldbach’s conjecture, stated that “every integer greater than 5 can be written […]
Panama: The Indigenous Leader Who Took on the Government
Written by Ariel Moreno and Translated by Betsy Galbreath This post is part of our special coverage Indigenous Rights [1]. Panama went through one of the biggest crises it has seen since democracy was restored in 1989 when the indigenous people of Gnobe-Bugle decided to take over the highway on January 31, 2012, [2] protesting mining and construction of hydroelectric facilities […]
Peruvian Town Faces Off Against Mining Companies
Posted by Juan Arellano to Global Voices Online Many may have heard of the village of Rancas because Peruvian writer Manuel Scorza wrote about the place in his series of novels “The Silent War,” and perhaps in “Drums for Rancas,” his most well-known book. However, Rancas is not a fictional town and it continues […]
Ecuador: The Aftermath of the Border Crisis
by Milton Ramirez The decision taken at the Rio Summit benefits the people living in the three countries involved: Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, but the governments are only slowly returning their relations back to how they were before the incident. The Organization of American States (OAS) has already handed out its resolution and it seems […]