Hola, President Biden. Latin America Has a Message for You.
2021 Enero Internacional
The dystopian image of a militarized Washington D.C. converted into a fortified city, with some 30,000 security personnel on hand to protect the peaceful...

Fascism 2.0 in eight lessons
2020 Diciembre Internacional
Today, November 16, 2020, it is impossible to predict what will happen in the United States over the coming weeks. There are many critical questions...

This is a 21st-century epidemic
2020 Agosto Internacional
We had to get this pandemic. It’s linked to the changes in society and the economy. Most of the world’s population lives in large cities, where transmission...

We are facing the threat of extinction
2020 Mayo Internacional
We cannot say this pandemic has taken us by surprise. Everything happening to us stems from climate change, a phenomenon researchers and I have been...

The world after coronavirus
2020 Abril Internacional
Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments make in the next few weeks...

Is democracy dying?
2020 Marzo Internacional
Is democracy dying? The short answer is No. The long answer for the detail-oriented is “of course not.” And yet, concepts like “democratic recession,”...

We are staring down a major crossroads
2020 Febrero Internacional
My book is titled La gran encrucijada (The great crossroads). The crossroads I write about is the product of the world’s current multidimensional—ecological,...

Why will the Amazon continue to burn?
2019 Septiembre Internacional
The skies over São Paulo suddenly darkened on the afternoon of August 19, making 3 pm seem more like 3 am. Thousands of miles from this Brazilian...

We’re living in the Anthropocene and the end has already begun
2019 Abril Internacional
Demarcating a new era as Anthropocene because humans have become a force for global transformation on a geological scale has become central in referring...

The apocalypse according to Stephen Hawking
2018 Abril Internacional
The renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking died in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76. Over nearly 60 years of public scientific life, the astrophysicist...

Imagine the other
2018 Marzo Internacional
There’s a recurring phantasmagoria that repeats itself so many times we end up turning our backs on it. It’s the army of Central American emigrants...

A phantom is roaming the planet
2018 Febrero Internacional
Many of us were hoping the 21st century would be a leap toward something new, toward a certain universal consciousness that would lead the planet beyond...

Reflections on the referendum in Catalonia
2017 Octubre Internacional
The Catalonian referendum on Sunday, October 1, will become part of Europe’s history, possibly for the worst of reasons. I don’t discuss here the substantive...

Big data and politics: The power of algorithms
2017 Agosto Internacional
No more than 10% of the electorate in Latin America is informed.” That statement was made by the controversial Ecuadorean image adviser Jaime Durán...

How does one democratize communication in the post-truth era?
2017 Marzo Internacional
What are we talking about when we demand the democratization of communication and information? Do we only mean redistributing radio frequencies to guarantee...

Trump’s victory signals the end of progressive neoliberalism
2017 Febrero Internacional
The election of Donald Trump represents one of a series of dramatic political uprisings that together signal a collapse of neoliberal hegemony. These...

The challenge to avoid catastrophe is to reunite power and politics
2016 Septiembre Internacional
Since the publishing of Zygmunt Bauman’s books Joys of Life Made, Not Bought and Does The Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?, I’ve thought...

How did we get to this chaos?
2016 Agosto Internacional
A curse long attributed to China says: May you live in interesting times. What makes it a curse is that too many events disturb the essential element...

The subliminal effects of policy messages on the democratic exercise
2016 Julio Internacional
Democracy is in trouble, and an important cause of many of its contemporary ailments is the messages policies send to citizens about participation and...

Is the green economy really the new magic formula?
2016 Julio Internacional
The dominant image of the green economy is that it wants to get away from the use of fossil fuels. It is an attractive and optimistic message: the economy...

The Franciscan Left and ethical socialism
2016 Febrero Internacional
Where are we failing? is the title of a book coordinated by Jorge Riechmann, in which he reflects upon the reasons why the ecological discourse...

They’re always watching us: The end of private life
2015 Diciembre Internacional
The idea of a world under “total surveillance” has long seemed like utopic or paranoid raving, fruit of an imagi¬nation more or less obsessed by conspiracy...

For a pact of dreamers
2015 Noviembre Internacional
What satisfaction my heart would feel if they were to tell me that I would not receive the Rafto Human Rights Prize because Hondu¬ras was no longer a...

Words for building“our common house”
2015 Octubre Internacional
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, good day. Once again, following a tradition by which I feel honored, the Secretary General of the United Nations...

“The stakes are so high, time is so short and the task so large…”
2015 Septiembre Internacional
I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and to CIDSE for hosting us here and for convening this remarkable...

2045: Welcome to a fair future
2015 Marzo Internacional
Natural resource politics looks at who controls nature and how it is used. The answers are complex and full of contradictions. Institutional structures,...

Democracy as a Universal Value
2013 Octubre Internacional
In the summer of 1997, I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the 20th century....

How self-help has become part of our common sense
2013 Septiembre Internacional
Self-help ideas are a phenomenon peculiar to our times but have an extensive genealogy. Their present form incorporates the modulations of their history,...

The masses in the streets
2013 Julio Internacional
An insurrectional spirit is spreading among the masses around the world and they’re occupying the only spaces left to them: the streets and squares....

Pope Francis: “A poor Church for the poor”
2013 Abril Internacional
Three days after being elected bishop of Rome and successor to St. Peter, the 76-year-old Francis—who even two weeks later hadn’t yet referred to himself...

Another public health is posible
2013 Enero Internacional
Threateningly and ferociously, capitalism tells us that my freedom ends where yours begins. In contrast, Martin Luther King, Jr. told us that “until...

The ecological crisis in its temporal dimension
2012 Diciembre Internacional
In Time’s arrows: Scientific attitudes towards time, US author and poet Richard Morris said that although the genus Homo has only existed for...

Green economy: A path to another possible world?
2012 Agosto Internacional
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit or Río Summit and in Portuguese as Eco...

The terms of today’s ecological debate
2012 Agosto Internacional
Around 11,000 years ago, the Earth’s temperature began to rise naturally, causing the progressive melting of the last great glacier age. A large part...

The terms of today’s ecological debate
2012 Julio Internacional
Around 11,000 years ago, the Earth’s temperature began to rise naturally, causing the progressive melting of the last great glacier age. A large part...

Fifty years after Vatican II: What are the challenges?
2012 Julio Internacional
Few people would be surprised to hear me say that the Second Vatican Council—which began 50 years ago this year—was the most important and positive event...

Fear is an instrument of opression
2011 Noviembre Internacional
George Bernard Shaw said that fear can lead men to any extreme. Fear is one of the most uncomfortable sensations we all feel and we share it with...

A Letter to all the Left
2011 Octubre Internacional
I don’t doubt that there’s a future for the Left but it won’t be a linear continuation of the past. To define what the different Left expressions have...

2010-2030: The end of a World
2011 Junio Internacional
The “world of 2007” has ended. It no longer exists as such and shall never return. It’s a “world” that is slowly falling apart before our very eyes,...

The ecological crisis goes global: Gaia’s revenge
2011 Mayo Internacional
Serious and ever more conspicuous implications of globalized capitalism’s renewed, increasingly disproportionate monetary-financial aspect are adding...

What is a secular society like?
2011 Mayo Internacional
Secularism is a liberation movement, one of those that have contributed most to fighting domination and struggling against the persecution of pluralism....

A Needed Consideration of the Gaddafi Case
2011 Abril Internacional
In its day, Gaddafi’s regime represented an important bastion of support for world revolution, whether through genuine revolutionary movements like the...

The Ecological Crisis Goes Global: The Development We Want Is Unsustainable
2011 Marzo Internacional
In the first half of the 20th century, the still very incipient global ecological crisis didn’t attract institutional interest much less the oratory...

Will the World Really End in 2012?
2011 Enero Internacional
It is being said that the world will end in 2012. Even some scholars have backed it up. Novels have been written and movies filmed on the subject....

The Ecological Crisis Goes Global: We're Witnessing a Biological Coup
2010 Diciembre Internacional
The urban-agro-industrial system has had a direct negative impact on the biosphere, all its ecosystems—the life forms and all their habitats—at a rate...

Climate Change: Who’s in the Dock?
2010 Octubre Internacional
By the second half of the 20th century, the environmental repercussions of global capitalism were no longer limited to the land mass, but rather leapt...

The Chemistry of Development
2010 Septiembre Internacional
I have a brother, a twin, who’s very different from me. Up to adolescence we received the same stimuli and grew up in the same environment, in the small...

The Planet’s First Layer Is Seriously Injured
2010 Agosto Internacional
In the 20th century we went from an “empty” world to a “full” one. This entailed a real historical mutation, causing us to now speak of entering a new...

The New Religious Identities
2010 Julio Internacional
Religion, in its free and creative flight, has evolved and taken on new forms that present authentic challenges to some, especially politicians and religious...

Socialism in the 21st Century: A Model with Changeable Pieces
2009 Diciembre Internacional
According to the logbook bequeathed to 21st-century socialism, last century’s predecessor had four main qualities: efficiency, heroism, barbarity and...

MySpace, Storytelling and the New Magnification of the World
2009 Octubre Internacional
We’re facing the expansion of diverse cultures whose contemporary specificity resides more in their intersection than in the content of their own different...

The Darker Sides of a “Country of Immigrants”
2009 Mayo Internacional
The famous Statue of Liberty rises up on the island next to Ellis Island, the famous Island of Tears that filtered immigrants coming to the United States....

When the Addiction Leads to Recession
2009 Mayo Internacional
There are innocent games and dangerous games. Some people get together once in a while to play cards or dominos, and if they bet they do it for small...

A History of US Deportation: Will to Exclude, License to Marginalize
2009 Abril Internacional
When the first European colonists reached what is now the United States of America, Ellis Island was just a 3.3-acre island at the mouth of the Hudson...

The Crisis of Religion In Christianity
2009 Marzo Internacional
Within Christianity the crisis of religion is reaching a climax in Europe, and has already reached a very high level in the Americas. And it’s a crisis...

Darwin’s 200th Anniversary: There’s So Much More to Learn
2009 Enero Internacional
The theory of evolution as conceived by Charles Darwin 150 years ago explains “natural selection” as the mechanism that brings about the transformation...

Four Different Crises Add Up to One Real Planetary Crisis
2008 Diciembre Internacional
The whole world is passing through various related crises. Born in the North, they are dragging the countries of the South down with them. Financial...

Reforming the Vatican: What the Church Can Learn from Others
2008 Septiembre Internacional
Too often when someone proposes the reform of church structures, the reformer is attacked for borrowing from the secular political field, as if this...

Finland’s Successful Experience in the Fight Against Corruption
2006 Abril Internacional
Although Finland is not entirely without corruption, it gets consistently high ratings in international surveys on the topic. The fact that it is relatively...

The Neoliberal Model in Times of AIDS
2005 Agosto Internacional
The most recent United Nations figures show the true magnitude of the tragedy: approximately forty million people are currently living with the Human...

Quito Isn’t Managua, Ecuador Isn’t Nicaragua
2005 Mayo Internacional
In Ecuador, the people of Quito, indignant at judicial manipulation to grant impunity to a corrupt former ruler, took to the streets in mid-April...

From John Paul II to Benedict XVI: Memories, Analyses, Fears and Hopes
2005 Mayo Internacional
Four days after John Paul II’s death, with the streets of Rome and St. Peter’s Square still teeming with people, I found myself in a meeting of Jesuits,...

The Narrow Road to the Globalization of Solidarity
2005 Abril Internacional
Now that we have entered the third millennium, the idea of “the end of history” as the only economic alternative has entered into internal crisis and...

What Is Morally Unjust Cannot Be Economically Correct
2005 Marzo Internacional
What can this generation, working together, each and all of us, do? We are not powerless individuals; acting together, we have the power to shape history,...

Women Envision Another Possible World
2005 Febrero Internacional
What is the World March of Women? The World March of Women is a movement composed of women’s groups of diverse ethnic, cultural, religious, political...

The US god, Bush's God, Nicaragua's God: How Do They Differ?
2005 Enero Internacional
George W. Bush’s reelection revealed some of the pro-found political and cultural tensions that have marked the history of the United States and, more...

Clean Up Your Computer
2005 Enero Internacional
Computers are an integral part of everyday life. Thirty years ago, it would have been hard to imagine their centrality in everyday life. Now, it’s...

Are Free Trade Agreements Free? Are They Development Strategies?
2004 Noviembre Internacional
Is the liberalization of international trade a desirable goal in principle? Opinions abound and are contradictory, but it would unquestionably be desirable...

Poor or Impoverished? And How Do They Get That Way?
2004 Septiembre Internacional
The cultures we live in tend to make us believe that people are poor and impoverished for one of two reasons. Either it’s their own fault (they’re lazy...

Internationalize the Amazonia?
2004 Abril Internacional
During a debate in a US university over four years ago, a young US ecologist asked Cristóvão Buarque, then the Workers Party governor of the Federal...

A Central American at the World Social Forum
2004 Marzo Internacional
I didn’t know exactly what I was going to. I imagined that it would be like the congresses organized by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),...

Enron et al—The Fiasco of the New US-style
2004 Marzo Internacional
From the late 1990s until 2001, American capitalism was held up as the model. The US President and the chairman of the Federal Reserve did not hesitate...

Latin American Leaders: Life Inside the Glass Prison
2003 Diciembre Internacional
The leader is locked in, isolated, prisoner of the indulgent court that controls access to such an important person. But the leader’s prison is made...

Why Do They Go? Theories on the Migration Trend
2003 Julio Internacional
Many research studies have sought to reveal the characteristics of those who emigrate: whether they are better or worse prepared than those who stay...

The Information Age: Understanding our World
2003 Mayo Internacional
Manual Castells, a Catalan sociologist and Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning at both the University of California, Berkeley, and...

A Central American in the USA: Reflections on “The American Dream”
2003 Abril Internacional
Mark Twain traveled Nicaragua’s Río San Juan in 1886, when he was 51, 10 years after publishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. All that remains...

War Is a Defeat for Humanity
2003 Marzo Internacional
1. The world is currently experiencing the most serious situation since the end of the Cold War. The reason is President Bush’s threat to attack Iraq,...

Always at War against Someone
2003 Marzo Internacional
In the middle of last year, while this war was incubating, George W. Bush declared that “we must be ready to attack any obscure corner of the world.”...

George W. Bush: A Dictator by Any Other Name...
2003 Marzo Internacional
The term dictator has been used in my lifetime to describe a range of political leaders. Certainly Hitler was a dictator, perhaps the first of whom...

World Trade Rules: Rabbit and Tiger in the Same Cage
2002 Diciembre Internacional
Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, the first between developed nations and a developing one, the price Mexican...

The US Power Complex: What’s new
2002 Noviembre Internacional
To discern what’s new about US foreign policy and its power trip through history, there is no need to follow the debates in the foreign policy journals...

What Is Good Governance? And How Do We Measure It?
2002 Noviembre Internacional
The obsession with governance continues to grow throughout the world, as does the debate about and further elaboration of the concepts of local, national...

A Global Ethic
2002 Octubre Internacional
The question of the soul or the spiritual dimension of Europe cannot be ignored in the process of European political and economic integration. In 1992,...

Realities and Appearances In the Fight against Corruption
2002 Octubre Internacional
Corruption has been high on the political agenda for some time now, although it has been accentuated in recent years. All observers agree on the seriousness...

Brazil: A Model Response to AIDS
2002 Septiembre Internacional
Since 1849, when a cholera epidemic decimated London’s population and Dr. John Snow discovered that most victims had drunk water from a source on Broad...

Trading Away the Future
2002 Agosto Internacional
Free trade agreements in Canada are relatively contemporary phenomena, which have not been met with out controversy. A major concern with the North American...

The "Sun-Child": Everyone’s Responsibility
2002 Julio Internacional
An oft-heard lament in western societies is that today’s young people are individualistic and violent, that they lack any deep convictions or motivations...

For Peace, For the Future: A State for Palestine
2002 Abril Internacional
Ramallah under siege. Yasser Arafat isolated there. Bethlehem occupied. Every day new Palestinian suicide martyrs immolate themselves as they kill Israeli...

Cyberculture: Challenges and Unknowns
2002 Marzo Internacional
Like it or not, we are immersed in a revolution whose outcome is virtually impossible to foresee. The main instigator of all this change is a new technology...

The World on the Ropes
2001 Octubre Internacional
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and their subsequent destruction was an act of insanity that graphically demonstrates the giant...

Who’s Rescuing the South’s Shipwreck: NGOs or the State?
2001 Septiembre Internacional
At the beginning of this year I shared with envío readers some reflections on the work of NGDOs, the nongovernmental organizations dedicated to...

NGOs: Somewhere between Compassion, Profitability and Solidarity
2001 Agosto Internacional
The development NGOs from the countries of the North are performing an increasingly important role in the international system. They handled nearly US$6...

The War Against Market Monotheism
2001 Julio Internacional
The market is where the whole of society exchanges things, given the underlying division of labor. Markets have always existed, from the prehistoric...

Vital Democracy: A Feminist Proposal
2001 Junio Internacional
The coexistence and cohabitation of women and men is universal in time and place, but it has not been nor is it now the most civic or peaceful. Although...

Globalized Civil Society: From Below or from Above?
2001 Mayo Internacional
The concept of civil society is very fashionable at the moment. It is so widely accepted as to allow all kinds of interpretations, while at the same...

Porto Alegre The Strength of Being Together
2001 Mayo Internacional
Thousands of people from all over the planet, moved by a great common objective—repudiation of the current neoliberal model and the conviction that "another...

Porto Alegre On the Road to Post-Capitalism
2001 Mayo Internacional
The World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre offered an unprecedented opportunity to bring together diverse grassroots forces from countries in both the...

Shipwreck: NGOs to the Rescue
2001 Enero Internacional
Such disasters occurred from time to time, and when ever they did thousands of people drowned. The news began to reach the North as journalists managed...

Defining Left and Right
2000 Noviembre Internacional
The current climate of ideological uncertainty is largely due to the fact that the Right is employing a progressive discourse and the Left a conservative...

Development Aid In Crisis: Donor Fatigue
2000 Agosto Internacional
Cooperation in the process of developing impoverished countries is a multifaceted task involving both the private and public sectors. Given the lack...

Transgenic Foodstuffs: Gateway to a Controversy
2000 Julio Internacional
Emotions and feelings are unquestionably important in human life. They are also important in approaching the ethical dilemmas resulting from the extraordinary...

Transgenic Crops: Critical Voices from the South
2000 Julio Internacional
There is talk in the world about a second "green revolution." Two elements characterized the first one, which translated into the boom of fruit cultivation...

Money Laundering and Investment: A Few Clues
2000 Junio Internacional
Starting at the end of the 1960s, certain platforms for "dirty" money began to be set up in offshore tax havens and financial centers—the same countries...

Seattle: First Fruit of a Changing Epoch
2000 Abril Internacional
If there is an ideological leitmotif for the end of the last century (how strange it feels to type those words about one’s own century!), it undoubtedly...

An Ethics for the New Millennium: The Just Measure and Essential Caring
2000 Marzo Internacional
Once a tree has fulfilled its intrinsic potential, it is said to have reached its peak. It then dies and falls. When people have consumed their personal...

Key Elements of the Honduras-Nicaragua Territorial Conflict
2000 Enero Internacional
On November 30, 1999, Honduras suddenly and secretly ratified a treaty it had signed with Colombia over a decade earlier, on August 2, 1986, in which...

The "Solution" of the Rich
1999 Septiembre Internacional
Some 17 million signatures collected worldwide to demand the cancellation of the foreign debt owed by poor countries were handed over to the heads of...

Several Key Questions
1999 Septiembre Internacional
Many different strategies have been developed in an attempt to resolve the foreign debt crisis since the problem first emerged in the early 1980s. From...

Five Basic Theses on the Third World Foreign Debt
1999 Septiembre Internacional
The following five theses on the third world foreign debt problem are based on the crisis that began in 1997 and the experiences of the 1980s. The main...

A Rebel in the Cause Of African Renaissance
1999 Agosto Internacional
A struggle for political power is dragging the Kingdom of Lesotho towards the abyss of a violent conflict. The Democratic Republic of Congo is sliding...

USA-NATO vs. Yugoslavia: The Empire’s Impunity
1999 Mayo Internacional
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia under us auspices is unprecedented. It is the first time since World War II that NATO has launched a military offensive...

A Way Out of the Economic Growth Trap
1999 Enero Internacional
The limits of growth: A quick look backThe first Club of Rome report, with the now-historic title, "The Limits of Growth," was published 25...

Women: The Other Face of Power
1998 Agosto Internacional
That the 21st century will be a "feminine century" is a reasonable prophecy. Women's increased presence in positions of responsibility has been the result...

Tools for Understanding "One-Line Thinking"
1998 Julio Internacional
How can one describe from the ideological perspective the historical moment in which we find ourselves? What are the planet's characteristics today from...

Putting Life Before Debt
1998 Junio Internacional
International debt is a dangerous obstacle to Human Development, forcing the world's most impoverished countries to use scarce resources to pay their...

Multilateral Investment Agreement: Friend of the Rich, Enemy of Nations
1998 Marzo Internacional
FROM THE MOMENT IT STOPPED BEING A "SECRET," the proposal for a Mltilateral Investment Agreement (MIA) was questioned from all sides. From the South,...

Multilateral Investment Agreement: A World Alert
1998 Febrero Internacional
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM WAS HELD IN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, from January 19 to February 3. This forum is the private club of the planet's...

Archeology of the Idea of Development
1997 Septiembre Internacional
Fallen buildings hide their secrets under mountains of earth and rubble. and mental structures are often erected on foundations covered by sand for years...

It's Time to Turn History Around
1997 Septiembre Internacional
It's time to revert the course of history. The destiny of Humanity is at stake. Scientific progress and technical advance, the jewels of knowledge, are...

What Remains of Socialism?
1997 Agosto Internacional
Social philosophy would have a hard time avoiding one of the crucial issues of our time: the foundering of the socialist projects of social transformation....

From Environmentalism To Radical Ecology
1997 Julio Internacional
While conservationism protects species and environmentalism creates reserves, other deeper and sounder tendencies of ecology express amazement at the...

There's No Heaven Without Earth
1997 Junio Internacional
Perhaps the ecological discourse in these moments is the most universal because its objective-the collective destiny not of a system of life, but of...

One Ethic Is Vanishing and Another Being Announced
1997 Mayo Internacional
Violence, criminality, isolation, drugs and unrestrained sexuality are not the true problems. They are the symptoms of a more radical and widespread...

The Dead in the West's Basement
1997 Abril Internacional
Speaking today of alternatives to the existing neoliberal system cannot be limited to technical discussions about political alternatives. In their essence,...

Narcissism: The Epidemic of Our Time
1996 Septiembre Internacional
Each social context creates its own lifestyle, a specific hierarchy of values, diverse behavior guidelines and its own pathologies. Narcissistic personality...

Democracy and Markets in The New World Order
1996 Julio Internacional
The conventional picture of the new era we are entering and the promise it holds was formulated clearly by National Security Adviser Anthony Lake when...

The Fight Against Corruption: Banner of the Left
1996 Abril Internacional
The word corruption comes from the latin corrumpere. Corominas says IT BE?came part of the language between 1220 and 1250. The Diccionario de la Academia...

A Society With Room for Everyone
1996 Enero Internacional
A conviction predominated in the 1950s and 1960s that the First World was showing the Third World what its future would be. Today we see the opposite;...

The Future of Humanity Is Being Decided Today
1995 Noviembre Internacional
The simultaneous end of the second millennium and of the 20th century calls us to reflect on the moment humanity is going through on this, its spaceship,...

The Death Throes of Liberalism
1995 Octubre Internacional
The first great political expression of liberalism, with all its ambiguities, was without doubt the French Revolution. What happened during that revolution...

Copenhagen: The Potential Success of a Failure
1995 Mayo Internacional
The recent summit on social development in Copenhagen, which took up the issues of poverty, unemployment and social disintegration in the world, was...

The Economic and the Social: Divorced in Copenhagen
1995 Abril Internacional
With March's world summit on social development in Copenhagen, a new chapter is added to the series of planetary spectaculars on social issues that the...

For an Equitable and Autonomous Coexistence
1995 Febrero Internacional
"Underdevelopment" Makes Its DebutIn his January 1949 inaugural address, President Truman used the term "underdevelopment" for the first time,...

World Bank and IMF: Guilty as Charged
1994 Diciembre Internacional
The session of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was convoked by the International Lelio Basso Foundation for the Liberation and Rights of Peoples, in...

Roots of the Colombia-Nicaragua Territorial Dispute
1994 Diciembre Internacional
Atiny and anomalous document from 1803, which was only in effect for a scant three years and never had any practical consequences, has served right up...

World Bank and IMF to the Stand
1994 Octubre Internacional
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two institutions targeted by growing...

Laws and Electronic mail: an Alternative of Struggle
1994 Septiembre Internacional
Traditionally, laws have neglected both community interests and the interests of nature and the environment. Their role has thus been viewed with mistrust...

Why are More People Poor?
1993 Diciembre Internacional
The Conference on Social Development and Poverty, in preparation for the World Summit for Social Development to be held in Denmark in 1995, was held...

The New Transitions: Where are they Headed?
1993 Octubre Internacional
Recounting the experience of the Paris Commune, Marx noted that when the time comes to make revolutions, the moment of the greatest need for creativity,...

Somalia: Lessons for the South
1993 Agosto Internacional
To begin with, television screens around the world were inundated with daily images of emaciated children and entire populations dying of hunger. Next,...

Liberation Theology: Theology of the South
1993 Junio Internacional
Liberation theology is a theology of life and hope that seeks to reestablish a sense of God and the Gospel in society and in the Church itself. It does...

The Crisis of Socialism Highlights the North-South Fight*
1991 Noviembre Internacional
I would like to develop several theses about the change in the relationship between first and third world countries, a change heavily affected by the...

Just the Facts: US Military Interventions
1990 Febrero Internacional
The US population has a strong self-image of charity toward those "less fortunate," both at home and abroad. Many, as a result, cannot comprehend the...

Just The Facts: The NED* Dollars: 1987-1989
1989 Agosto Internacional
Cuadro 1 – 1987 Cuadro 2 – 1988 Cuadro 3 – 1989 ...

Spaceship Earth
1989 Julio Internacional
"We are living in a phase in which we have to renew our thinking daily to be able to renew life on earth. First and foremost, we need to keep nature's...

The Last Word: On the Expulsion of US Diplomats
1989 Julio Internacional
“The diplomat in question [Kathleen Barmon] has publicly said in effect that all the unions affiliated with the United Federation of Honduran Workers...

EEC Applauds Central American Initiative
1989 Abril Internacional
While the US government has enforced an economic embargo against Nicaragua since 1985, the European Economic Community (EEC) has continued to give aid...

Internationalists Caught in the War
1986 Junio Internacional
"The internationalists. Some may consider them simply tourists. I don't know how they are looked upon in official US circles. Reagan calls them 'terrorists.'...

North-South Conference At Cancun
1981 Noviembre Internacional
The highly publicized North-South conference between representatives of developed and underdeveloped nations was held in Cancun, Mexico’s luxurious Caribbean...