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Current Issues |
| CURRENT ISSUES, SPECIAL REPORT: ARE THE GAMES WORTH IT? |
| Introduction |
Large international sports competitions, like the Olympics or Panamerican games, draw the attention of the world in multi-faceted ways. Interest, concern, pride, fear, and hope are feelings often asso...
The World & I Online, The Editor |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, ANALYSIS |
| Can Pastoralism Survive in the 21st Century? |
Pastoralism is under threat – from climate change, shifting global markets and increased competition for land and other natural resources – even though it generates substantial income in areas where c...
The World & I Online, Integrated Regional Informational Networks |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS |
| Afghanistan at the Crossroads |
“As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan” -- Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan.
The future of Afghanistan is uncertain as it confron...
The World & I Online, James Emery |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, ANALYSIS |
| Dams in the Amazon |
In recent weeks, the Brazilian government has turned to the difficult task of building giant hydroelectric dams in the Amazon River. The project presents President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a maj...
The World & I Online, Glenn Switkes |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, COMMENTARY |
| Economic Justice in Haiti |
A meeting of international diplomats and financiers in Port-au-Prince this summer ended up with a commitment of $750 million in foreign aid to Haiti over the coming year. This generosity will build ba...
The World & I Online, Anthony Phillips |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, ANALYSIS |
| Anti-Neoliberal Backlash |
The backlash against neoliberalism in Latin America is now leading to confrontations between several of the region’s governments and the two major international lending institutions, the World Bank an...
The World & I Online, Alejandro Reuss |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, ANALYSIS |
| Devastating Price Controls in Zimbabwe |
Price controls are having a ruinous effect on Zimbabwe's rural economy, according to small-scale farmers and civil society.
Since government launched "Operation Reduce Prices", compelling business...
The World & I Online, Integrated Regional Information Networks |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, SPECIAL REPORT: ARE THE GAMES WORTH IT? |
| Paramilitary Games |
As Rio de Janeiro prepared to host July’s Pan American Games, the largest sporting event in the hemisphere, private paramilitaries occupied favelas near two of the city’s main highways, in an appar...
The World & I Online, Luke McLeod- Roberts |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, SPECIAL REPORT: ARE THE GAMES WORTH IT? |
| Olympics in an Age of Global Broadcasting |
When the XXVIII Olympiad opened in Athens, there were bursts of national pride. Since the 1964 Tokyo Games, when the Olympics were telecast live for the first time, they have become the most global sp...
The World & I Online, Emma Wensing |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, SPECIAL REPORT: ARE THE GAMES WORTH IT? |
| China on Lookout for Olympic Protesters |
China's intelligence services are gearing up for next year's Beijing Olympics, gathering information on foreigners who might mount protests and spoil the nation's moment in the spotlight.
Governme...
The World & I Online, Charles Hutzler |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Venezuela and Latin American Upheaval |
| Introduction |
During the past two to three decades, Latin America has made substantial strides in the direction of representative democracy and civil society. Throughout much of the twentieth century, most of the n...
The World & I Online, Jonathan Kelly |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Venezuela and Latin American Upheaval |
| Latin America's Left Swing |
Latin America's political pendulum has swung firmly to the left, and there's little evidence it will swing back soon. Seven of the region's eight most populous nations held presidential elections this...
The World & I Online, Muazzam Gill |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Venezuela and Latin American Upheaval |
| Collapsing Venezuela |
If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deliberately intended to sabotage his nation's economy, he would be hard-pressed to do anything different from what he is now doing to his country.
It has been wi...
The World & I Online, Richard W. Rahn |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Venezuela and Latin American Upheaval |
| Latin American Democracies in Trouble |
Although the region has succeeded in overcoming a long and bitter history of military dictatorships and bloody coups d'etat, democracy, as a political system, continues to be weak and unstable in Lati...
The World & I Online, Pedro F. Frisneda |
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| CURRENT ISSUES, WORLD PERSPECTIVES: Venezuela and Latin American Upheaval |
| Venezuela Takes Over Oil Rigs |
MIAMI, May 15 (UPI) -- Venezuelan state-oil company PDVSA said it will take over day-to-day operations of 18 oil rigs now run by foreign companies, the latest move in the country's effort to take cont...
The World & I Online, Carmen J. Gentile |
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