Brazil fighting its own border war, says security expert
Last week, Brazil began reinforcing its southern borders with about 9,000 more military troops as the fifth part of its war on criminal gangs, according to a U.S. security official who monitors South American organized crime. The security source told the Law Enforcement Examiner that the border reinforcements are part of Operation Agatha 5, which [...]
BIF News Briefing, July 2012
1. TIPNIS consultation begins 2. Mallku Qhota: government nationalises mining concession 3. Indian steel company Jindal abandons Mutún project 4. Santa Cruz governor faces suspension 5. Cristina Fernández visits Bolivia to negotiate gas deal 6. The Bolivian economy grew 5.17% in 2011 1. TIPNIS consultation begins Consultation with communities that live in the TIPNIS national [...]
Mexico’s Movement for Real Democracy
“We are the children of the ideals you couldn’t kill.” A young woman carried the hand-lettered sign as she marched with tens of thousands of people in Mexico City last July 22. Twenty-something, with long black hair and jeans, her message captures the spirit and sense of history of Mexico’s new movement for real democracy. [...]
Mining paradise 2012: Codelco hopes to start exploring Junin in 2013
This last Thursday (July 26), the governments of Ecuador and Chile signed a bilateral agreement to strengthen their political, cultural and economic ties. In the economic sphere mining took center stage. I am reproducing the part on mining below, and as you can see, the government of Ecuador would like Codelco to start exploration in [...]
Protests Against Elections Heat Up with “National March Against the Imposition”
Mexicans hit the streets again on Sunday, in the third mass demonstration against the apparent president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, in the three weeks since the elections. After months of demonstrations, Mexico’s movement to reject the return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) shows no signs of fading away. The July 22 “National March Against the [...]
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