by Gerardo Honty – On Friday, April 22 2016, the headquarters of the United Nations in New York received the representatives of the member states for the opening ceremony of the signing of the Paris Agreement. The ceremony was more symbolic than anything else, as it inaugurated the period of one year that the countries […]
by Eduardo Gudynas – The enormous mining corporation tried every which way they could to evict this family of subsistence farmers. They used the police, guards, journalists, judgements, and many other weapons. But this is a steadfast family, with a woman deeply rooted in her land in Peru’s northern Andes, who resisted with all her […]
by Gerardo Honty – By the end of 2015, the price of petroleum had fallen to values of the beginning of the century; after having reached a peak close to US$ 150 per barrel in 2008, the prognostics indicate that the prices will continue low in 2016, something that is difficult to explain in a […]
by Gerardo Honty – This Friday (December 11, 2015) marks the date for the agreement to put limits on climate change. But the second week of negotiations of the Paris summit on Climate Change (COP 21) began this Monday with little progress, as expected. In spite of the fact that the new draft proposed at […]