Seed by theogeo http://www.flickr.com/photos/theogeo/ / CC BY 2.0 The Alzar las Voces (Raise the Voices) project in Nicaragua brings farmers in rural communities the possibility to speak out through video telling of their concerns, their projects, their wishes and ideas. There are six organizations in Matagalpa Honduras who are working on this project including women’s […]
Oil Refinery Explodes in Puerto Rico
At around 12:30 am on Friday, October 23, the Gulf Oil Refinery (Caribbean Petroleum Company-CAPECO) in Bayamón (in the metropolitan area), Puerto Rico, exploded massively. Almost 20 tanks have exploded since then, the fire is still burning although it has been contained, and an immense and never ending tower of smoke is covering the sky. […]
Two Years After Peru Earthquake, And No Reconstruction
August 15 marked two years since an earthquake struck Southern Peru, and primarily affected the areas of Ica, Pisco, and Nazca. Other mountainous areas such as Huancavelica were also affected. Now that 2 years have passed after the earthquake, the opinion of many is that there has been very little accomplished in regards to reconstruction […]
Italian Citizens Report and Reflect on L’Aquila Earthquake
by Bernardo Parrella On Monday April 6th, at 3:32am local time (01:32 GMT), L’Aquila, capital city of the central Abruzzo region, 60 miles northeast of Rome, was stricken by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake [en]. Even if the country is not new to such tragedies, this is Italy’s worst earthquake in three decades. The latest figures […]
A broken vow of silence…
El 30 de enero de 2008 murió uno de los hombres más influyentes en la historia del siglo XX mexicano: el padre Marcial Maciel Degollado. Fue el fundador de la orden religiosa más importante y con mayor crecimiento en México y en el mundo: la Legión de Cristo. Con un especial interés por "reevangelizar" a […]
¿Cuándo nos daremos cuenta de que México es sólo nuestro?
Denise Dresser es una de las politólogas más reconocidas de México. Yo particularmente le agradezco sus ganas de poner todo lo que sabe a disposición de la gente que no está formada en los vericuetos de la Ciencia Política o de la Sociología; en su libro México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de […]