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Features / archives for : politics
Latin America: Pink Tide Rising
The Latin American left must be allowed to find new solutions to the region's political and social problems.
A pink tide continues to rise across Latin America, with two leaders friendly to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez elected in November. The victory of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, in spite of blatant meddling by the United States embassy, was followed by an upset triumph by Rafael Correa in the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador.
Peru: outing the NGOs
A law regulating the work of non-governmental organisations in Peru, now awaiting the signature of President Alan Garcia, has sparked concern that the new Peruvian government is resorting to illiberal means to silence its critics. Ministers claim that this is not so, and that NGOs must become more accountable to the country's elected rulers. The controversy has focused attention on what NGOs contribute to democratic governance.
Ecuador’s election surprise
The surprise result of Ecuador's first-round presidential election on 15 October 2006 means that a pro-United States multi-millionaire capitalist will compete in the run-off with his political opposite - a radical nationalist economist who claims to have a close friendship with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
The banana magnate Álvaro Noboa (of the Partido Renovador Institucional de Acción Nacional [Prian] party) confounded the slow start to his campaign and poor showing in many opinion polls, to emerge as - at least after the official counting of 40% of the ballot-boxes - the marginal winner of the first-round election, with 25.2% of votes. Former finance minister Rafael Correa (of the Alianza País [AP]), who had led many polls for the last weeks of the campaign, was a close second, on 25.03%.
Article from Lebanon:
This article was published today at a website called "Monday Morning" from Beirut, Lebanon. With everything these people are currently going through, it is amazing and comforting to see that journalists and bloggers still have an open eye and ear for what's going on in the rest of the world. At least in this case the technical infrastructure seems to be intact.Peaceful Peruvian Greetings to Beirut, Lebanon.
Always The Bride
(by our political analyst and columnist Maxwell A. Cameron)On July 28, 2006, Alan García Pérez, leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), assumed the presidency of Peru for the second time. The sight of the now middle-aged politician wearing the presidential sash fills many Peruvians with a weird sense of déjà vu. Having decided to give him a second chance, voters now wonder whether he has changed.
García is the kind of politician who, as one wag put it, needs to be the bride in every wedding, the corpse in every funeral. He must control the need to eclipse everyone around him if he wants to govern effectively.
Six Strategic Reasons to Support a U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement
(by Ana Isabel Eiras and Stephen Johnson, The Heritage Foundation)Populist nationalism emanating from Venezuela seeks to counter U.S. influence in Latin America, while Chinese deal-making is undermining the region’s slow evolution towards market-based economies. At the same time, congressional opponents of the Bush Administration are eager to block trade agreements to hand the President an election-year defeat. But failure to advance U.S.-Latin American trade relations would be an incredible blunder that jeopardizes one of America’s best interests: preserving peace and safety at home. Worse, it would drive allies into the hands of adversaries anxious to build a new order of authoritarian governments and aid networks based on the models of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. In contrast, approving the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) would mean big business for American and Peruvian enterprises and could dispel perceptions of U.S. withdrawal from the region and counteract growing anti-American sentiment.
The New Face of Election Fraud in Latin America: Examples from Mexico and Peru
(by our political analyst and columnist Maxwell A. Cameron)Writing for The Guardian blog "Comment is free..." James Galbraith and Greg Palast have provided a great service by calling attention to the serious possibility of systematic fraud in the Mexican election. Neither offer definitive proof, but both provide information and analysis that, in conjunction with other deficiencies in the process, suggest this election may have been neither free nor fair. Yet I fear there is a danger that in searching for fraud of the sort that occurred in Mexico in 1988 we may miss the real story. The greatest obstacle to clean elections may arise not from systemic fraud but from the politicization of electoral processes.
South America: towards union or disintegration
(by Justin Vogler, published in "openDemocracy.net")The Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina, on 20-21 July comes at a key moment in South America's integration process. To understand its significance, Justin Vogler talks to the leading Brazilian historian, Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira.
The knife-edge - and still contested - win for the conservative Partido de Acción Nacional candidate, Felipe Calderón, in the Mexican elections on 2 July 2006 is yet another sign that two political spheres exist in Latin America. In Mexico, Central America and Colombia, Washington's hegemony remains strong and the region's politics align accordingly. Meanwhile, in South America increasing autonomy is leading to the formation of a political community based loosely around a Brazilian-Argentinean axis.
Hernando de Soto: Fighter against shadow economies
Hernando de Soto advises governments who want to get a clearer picture on the economic potential of their own countries. To achieve that he and is co-workers use their experience gathered in Peru in the 80s. Back then the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) found out that nine out of ten small businesses weren’t registered; 85 percent of all taxis and buses were driven without a license, six out of ten shops were operated unofficially. And these businessmen also informally created the greater majority of real estate and companies in this country – without ever being annotated in a cadastral or trade register. Officially they owned nothing. In reality they possessed great values.Since then, in all countries de Soto and his team went to work meticulously, they discovered possessions of immense values that were disavowed by the State. In particular the value of unregistered land and real estate property in “third world” countries and the ex-Soviet Union is, according to de Soto’s estimates, about 9,300 billion US dollars.
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