The new law on geothermal energy (LEG), adopted within the so-called “secondary legislation” on energy reforms contains provisions that promote the privatization of water. They also could lead to pollution. And they were certainly designed to benefit the business and economic elites of Mexico, especially regarding energy production, the PRD warned.
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International experts examine the environmental, scientific, and legal implications of pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon caused by the U.S. oil company Chevron.
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Guatemalan municipalities with higher rates of poverty are most likely to have had lower rates of public investment over the past five years. Guatemala also ranks among the ten most vulnerable countries to climate change worldwide.
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The trajectory of the Peruvian economy over the last decade has been impressive, based on imitating the Chilean experience. And even though not all is well in the land of the Incas, it is still looking better than Chile.
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Signs of self-sustaining recovery in some advanced economies are offset by slowing growth in emerging markets.
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Brazil’s central bank kept the key interest rate (the Selic) unchanged, while Chile’s central bank cut the country’s benchmark interest rate.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new session of Congress calling on lawmakers to back government efforts to strike a peace deal; he also signed a decree granting relief to millions of internally displaced persons; former President Álvaro Uribe defended impunity for former paramilitary members, while victims of paramilitary violence were angered by the
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Young members of Chile’s largest party seek to update doctrine to acknowledge a “human rights deficit” dating back to the atrocities of the dictatorship.
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Sandinistas were ambushed on the 35th anniversary of the Revolution, while the opposition alleges police and military use of disappearances against their members.
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Jared Genser, a lawyer defending opposition leader Leopoldo López, submitted a brief to Juan Méndez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, about the conditions under which López has been held.
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