Articles Posted in ‘ latin american politics ’ Category
Ricardo Lagos on Science for Sustainability
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Lecture of former president of Chile Lagos and Caritas-President Rodríguez lecture for the important topic of the renowned anthropologist and scientist of cultures, Prof. Dr. Constantin von Barloewen on the anthropological-cultural-historical reasons for Economy, Sustainability and for Development Politics from a Latin American standpoint at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Berliner Str. 130, 14465 Potsdam, Germany.
The lecture series “A Different Kind of Development? Perspectives from Latin America” in Potsdam closes at the beginning of December with lectures by two outstanding Latin American personalities. Former president of Chile Ricardo Lagos Escobar and Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, president of the international organization Caritas, will speak about development and environmental protection in Latin America.
Ricardo Lagos Escobar’s lecture on the correlations between social inequality, export-oriented economics and institutional reform in Latin America will take place on Sunday, December 4th at 18:00 o’clock. The role of education and participation of social mobility and sustainable development will receive special focus. From 2000 to 2006, the economist and Social Democrat Escobar governed Chile , where students have been currently protesting against injustice in the education system. Lagos was UN special envoy with Secretary General Ban-ki Moon for the environment from 2007 until 2010.
The connections between ecology and the struggle against poverty, with regard to the „rights of creation,” is the theme of the fifth and final Fall lecture, on Sunday, December 4th at 6 pm at the IASS, Potsdam.
The lecture is admission-free and will be held in German with simultaneous German translation.
Lectures schedule:
Sunday, December 4, 2011, 6pm
Ricardo Lagos Escobar (Chile): „A New Latin America: After the Crisis. Challenges and Opportunities”;
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How many racist punks out there understand this?
Sunday, February 12th, 2012The reason there are so many illegal immigrants here is because the economies and governments of the Spanish speaking countries are so weak and unstable.
Why are they weak? has anyone ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine? America plays a strong role in latin american politics. Our government uses our taxpayer dollars to subsidize corn so it can be sold for less than it cost to produce.
So now the latin american farmers can’t compete, so they lose their farming jobs and come up north to our country for work.
So it’s NAFTA’s fault and we blame the Mexicans. We could just revise our agricultural policy, but no, we have to defend our dumb corn policy with an even dumber plan "Let’s build a wall to keep out the Mexicans and abridge our own civil liberties just to prove a point yeehah!"
Doesn’t anyone get it? If we become a police state, and maintain this stupid corn policy, for what little it is worth considering how it is a risk to our national security directly and indirectly through the destabilization of Latin countries, Maybe Mexico et al won’t want to be our friends anymore: Maybe they’ll drop out of NAFTA, Set up protectionism and stop buying our corn, and we’ll be the ones getting the shaft in the end. If we don’t revise NAFTA, and somehow expect Mexico/Guatemala/Ecuador etc.to take care of its own problems to keep the illegal aliens from flowing in, it’ll hurt us badly! Wake up and smell the coffee.
I know a lot of racists dittoheads on yahoo answers have trouble with words with multiple consonants such as "Unconstitutional" and "Protectionist Policies" but seriously, in your own best interests, consider why Latin America’s problems are so bad that Immigrants want to come to our country of all places. I don’t think an Iron Curtain, or a Berlin wall, or fascist policies of racial profiling have worked before, so why would they work now?
don’t forget, the more we screw over the latin countries, the more vulnerable they are to dictatorships, juntas and druglords. Hint: that’s not good for us. We’re not invincible.
Your reasoning makes sense. Agriculture is a highly subsidized industry in the US. If Mexico can grow its own food, it doesn’t have to rely on imports (which requires money), and more importantly, they won’t seek to make money through drug trade. Without drugs, there wouldn’t be violence or cartels. Without violence or cartels, the kids would not grow up to be potential killers as adults.
However, farmers are a very powerful lobbying force in America. It would be very difficult to cut subsidization to agriculture. Any bill relating to agriculture must be voted on by the Committee of Agriculture before it is sent to Congress. The committee would never allow a cut in government funding to agriculture just for the sake of giving Mexico a chance to compete. They would fight it on the grounds that the US must make sure it can always feed itself, that a basic necessity such as food shouldn’t be relied on foreign countries for. It would never even reach Congress.
NEWT LATIN AMERICANS.mov
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
NewtPresidentehttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/NBwqAuaj-bRhgzSq9M7pJgPeopleNewt Gingrich, Latin American, 2012 political campaign, politicsNEWT LATIN AMERICANS.mov
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Campaign 2012: Latin America
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The U.S. president taking office in 2013 will have to confront the ongoing problem of drug trafficking from Latin America, but may also find opportunities to revamp immigration policy and economic ties with the region, says CFR’s Shannon O’Neil.
Cross-border coordination of drug policy and enforcement is likely to continue to dominate the U.S.-Latin America security agenda, O’Neil says. “The United States is the largest consuming market for illegal drugs, and the vast majority of those drugs come from Latin America,” she says. “This is an issue that concerns the United States and obviously the countries in which they operate. This issue can only be approached as a regional solution.”
A “fundamental transformation” in immigration trends may provide the president an opportunity to reform U.S. immigration policy, says O’Neil. “In the last year, in particular for Mexico, what we’ve seen is what people call a ‘net-zero’ flow of migrants” into the United States, meaning that “the same number of people that are coming in are going out,” she says.
As U.S. economic recovery woes continue, Latin America may also present new export opportunities for the United States, O’Neil says. “Latin America has over 600 million consumers ready for U.S. goods and more and more are rising to the middle class, increasing their purchasing power, which can prove beneficial to the U.S.,” she says. To take advantage of this, O’Neil stresses, the winner of the 2012 U.S. presidential race will have to work to deepen ties with Latin American countries.
This video is part of Campaign 2012, a series of video briefings on the top foreign policy issues debated in the run-up to the 2012 elections.
http://www.cfr.org/americas/campaign-2012-latin-america/p27268
Duration : 0:5:10
How many racist punks out there understand this?
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012The reason there are so many illegal immigrants here is because the economies and governments of the Spanish speaking countries are so weak and unstable.
Why are they weak? has anyone ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine? America plays a strong role in latin american politics. Our government uses our taxpayer dollars to subsidize corn so it can be sold for less than it cost to produce.
So now the latin american farmers can’t compete, so they lose their farming jobs and come up north to our country for work.
So it’s NAFTA’s fault and we blame the Mexicans. We could just revise our agricultural policy, but no, we have to defend our dumb corn policy with an even dumber plan "Let’s build a wall to keep out the Mexicans and abridge our own civil liberties just to prove a point yeehah!"
Doesn’t anyone get it? If we become a police state, and maintain this stupid corn policy, for what little it is worth considering how it is a risk to our national security directly and indirectly through the destabilization of Latin countries, Maybe Mexico et al won’t want to be our friends anymore: Maybe they’ll drop out of NAFTA, Set up protectionism and stop buying our corn, and we’ll be the ones getting the shaft in the end. If we don’t revise NAFTA, and somehow expect Mexico/Guatemala/Ecuador etc.to take care of its own problems to keep the illegal aliens from flowing in, it’ll hurt us badly! Wake up and smell the coffee.
I know a lot of racists dittoheads on yahoo answers have trouble with words with multiple consonants such as "Unconstitutional" and "Protectionist Policies" but seriously, in your own best interests, consider why Latin America’s problems are so bad that Immigrants want to come to our country of all places. I don’t think an Iron Curtain, or a Berlin wall, or fascist policies of racial profiling have worked before, so why would they work now?
don’t forget, the more we screw over the latin countries, the more vulnerable they are to dictatorships, juntas and druglords. Hint: that’s not good for us. We’re not invincible.
Your reasoning makes sense. Agriculture is a highly subsidized industry in the US. If Mexico can grow its own food, it doesn’t have to rely on imports (which requires money), and more importantly, they won’t seek to make money through drug trade. Without drugs, there wouldn’t be violence or cartels. Without violence or cartels, the kids would not grow up to be potential killers as adults.
However, farmers are a very powerful lobbying force in America. It would be very difficult to cut subsidization to agriculture. Any bill relating to agriculture must be voted on by the Committee of Agriculture before it is sent to Congress. The committee would never allow a cut in government funding to agriculture just for the sake of giving Mexico a chance to compete. They would fight it on the grounds that the US must make sure it can always feed itself, that a basic necessity such as food shouldn’t be relied on foreign countries for. It would never even reach Congress.
Ahmadinejad on Five-Day Latin American Tour
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Transcript by http://www.newsy.com
BY HARUMENDHAH HELMY
ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO
Visiting four Latin American countries in five days. That’s Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s itinerary this week. As Iran faces increasing economic sanctions from the U.S. and Europe, the media are saying Ahmadinejad’s trip is a quest to strengthen ties with its allies.
His first stop — Venezuela. Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are known to share similar anti-American views. (Video: Al Jazeera)
And CNBC highlights something else the two countries share: their significant oil production.
“They’re OPEC friends. Venezuela produces some 3 million barrels a day and you add that to Iran’s 3.5-5 million and you are already looking at a good chunk of the global demand. If they are to work together in the face of increasing isolation, they could really put up a resistance.”
On Monday, the Obama administration announced it’s expelling one Venezuelan diplomat who it alleges talked to Mexican hackers about possible cyber attacks against the U.S. government. An analyst for Fox News ties this incident with Ahmadinejad’s visit.
“It has not been verified that the Venezuelan government took these discussions with some Mexican hackers seriously. But I think you have to keep in mind is the point that you mentioned, the timing of this expulsion. It comes right at the time when Iran’s president is in Venezuela. And it’s this alliance between Venezuela and Iran. A growing tie both economic and military. It really has the U.S. administration concerned, Jenna.”
After Venezuela, Ahmadinejad is set to visit the capitals of Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba. Al Jazeera notes the Ecuadorian and Nicaraguan presidents share similar ideological views with Venezuela’s Chavez. It highlights those countries Ahmadinejad isn’t visiting.
Al Jazeera: “A former Venezuelan diplomat who served under Chavez says the number of Latin American countries Ahmadinejad is not visiting, says something about his relations with those leaders.”
Diplomat: “Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia… countries with very distinct politics and points of view, haven’t invited Ahmadinejad.”
The Christian Science Monitor calls Ahmadinejad’s four destination capitals ‘anti-American cities.’ In Nicaragua, he is set to be the guest of honor at the presidential inauguration. But one correspondent for the paper says the two countries’ diplomatic relations is really just all talk.
“…what the Nicaraguan-Iranian relationship lacks in substance, it makes up for in rhetoric.
‘Our two countries have common interests, enemies and goals,’ Ahmadinejad said during his first visit in 2007 … ‘We may be far apart, but we are close in heart.’”
CNN reports Ahmadinejad promised to build a port in Nicaragua, which never materialized. He also promised to install oil refineries in Ecuador — also did not happen. An analyst for CNN says this shows Ahmadinejad’s trips to Latin America are mostly a gesture to his own people.
“There’s always a big gap between the rhetoric of promise of large scale investment and what actually is delivered. I think this is for domestic consumption — in his own country, to show that he is not isolated despite sanctions, despite U.N. resolutions, along those lines. In Latin America, generally, he doesn’t really have much of a political base.”
The journey also coincides with U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner’s trip to China and Japan, seeking support to increase sanctions against Iran’s oil industry. China is Iran’s largest oil consumer.
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Univision News – Political wrap: Republicans cater to Latino voters in Fla.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
MIAMI — The top two Republican presidential candidates spent the day Wednesday catering their campaigns to the Latino community in South Florida, particularly the influential Cuban-American community.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich traded blows at a candidates forum co-hosted by Univision over their stances on immigration, specifically Gingrich’s charge that Romney is “anti-immigrant, and Romney’s support for “self-deportation,” the economy, education, taxes an
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Film recommendations.?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012I’ve been looking for documentaries similar to South of the Border, Capitalism: A Love Story, An Unreasonable Man, or Jesus Camp. Anything recent involving latin american politics would be appreciated especially if Brasil is involved. I’m also looking for fictional films similar to Syrianaor Unthinkable where politics play a part in the plot. Thank you in advance.
"This is England" is a documentary film
Global Power Elite may used Chavez dead to take back the control of Latin America
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
RT talks to an expert on latin american politics, Adrian Salbuchi, broadband from Buenos Aires.Global Power Elite may used Chavez dead to take back the control of Latin America
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Oliver Stone on Latin America’s Political Upheaval in “South of the Border” 1
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Academy-Award Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone Tackles Latin America’s Political Upheaval in “South of the Border”, U.S. Financial Crisis in Sequel to Iconic “Wall Street”
Academy-award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has taken on three American presidents in “JFK,” “Nixon,” and “W.” and the most controversial aspects of the war in “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” He looked at the greed of the financial industry in the Hollywood hit “Wall Street” and its forthcoming sequel. In “South of the Border”, his latest documentary out this week in the United States, Stone takes a road trip across South America, meeting with seven presidents about the revolution sweeping the continent. The leftist transformation in the region might be ignored or misrepresented as nothing but “anti-Americanism” in the corporate media, but this film seeks to tell a different story. Stone joins us along with the film’s co-writer, the Pakistani-British author and activist Tariq Ali.
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