Akhilesh 100 Days in Office

UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has completed 100 days in office. The Samajwadi Party was voted to power after defeating the Bahujan Samaj Party in the assembly elections held early this year. Akhilesh amid high expectations and hope took oath on March 15 as the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He has taken several [...]

SPECIAL MEXICO ELECTIONS COVERAGE from the CIP Americas Program

Today more than 79 million Mexicans are voting for a new president. The Americas Program is here, writing for you on the process before, during and after citizens cast their votes. Our team is reporting in from Mexico City and various states to keep you up-to-the minute on events and what it means for the [...]

Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice

One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence. Rape, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced abortion, and sterilizations were just some of the sadistic tools used in a systematic practice of state-sponsored terror to crush the surviving [...]

The next round in Intag? ENAMI takes its first steps

ENAMI stands for Empresa Nacional Minera, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company. It came into being in 2009, after the passing of the new mining law, in order not to let the transnationals be the only ones pillaging the country’s mineral resources. They have ZERO experience in large-scale metal mining, since Ecuador has no large-scale metal mines.This [...]

Kutch revisited: a voice in the wilderness

Though not lying along the edges of the lithosphere plates where earthquakes are common, India experienced the first major earthquake of the millennium. The severity of the earthquake in Kutch, Gujarat on 26 January 2001 could justly be compared to the Good Friday earthquake on 27 March 1964 near Anchorage, Alaska. Whatever the statistical or [...]

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