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Haiti today is a tragic case study of how developing nations can lose the sovereign right to ensure access to healthcare when they lose their right to local food self-sufficiency under globalization.

Argentina se encuentra enfrascada hoy en una profunda crisis política, que contrasta con la mejor coyuntura económica en varias décadas. Pero ¿dónde está el debate sobre el futuro del país?

Foreign travelers account for nearly $13 billion of the tourist revenue, so fewer foreign travelers translates into economic pain. Tourism generates more money than the maquiladora export industry or remittances sent home by U.S.-based migrants.

No debiera ser demasiado esperar que el gobierno mexicano dé la bienvenida a sus ciudadanos de regreso a casa: que esté presente ahí, en la frontera, con organismos que proporcionen abrigo, alimento, transporte y atención médica a todos los cientos de miles de Raymundos y Raymundas que están volviendo a su patria muy a pesar suyo.

The change is not confined to Colombia—although it has its epicenter there—but extends to countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and affects the entire region.

It shouldn't be too much to expect that the Mexican government welcome its citizens back home—to be there at the border with agencies that provide shelter, food, transportation, and medical attention for all the hundreds of thousands of Raymundos and Raymundas who are unwillingly coming home.

Hace apenas medio siglo los Bañados eran una ciénaga sobre la que el río Paraguay desbordaba sus aguas en épocas de lluvias. Eran, también el vertedero de basura de Asunción. Hoy es uno de los barrios más poblados, donde la extrema pobreza se vuelve tolerable gracias a una increíble solidaridad.

The verdict is still out on the long-term outcome of the Oaxaca social movement of 2006, but what we can already clearly see is the resonant power of rights discourses when harnessed with a cultural form that actively empowers those to speak who have been silenced and makes what they have to say understandable to others who are hearing their voices for the first time.

Mexico has lived through the slow disintegration of the corporate state created and controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), its gradual replacement by a multi-party, neoliberal state, and the emergence of new sources of governance and power: private and public, transnational and national, criminal and legal.

Las IFRs encierran muchas oportunidades para un desarrollo autónomo de la región, pero necesitan de profundas reformas y actualizaciones en sus operaciones.