Abstract: The discussion about the contrast between development and sustainability seems dense and abstract. In El Salvador, however, there is a clear example of the need to seek a balance between both: the controversy over the attempt to pass a Water Act. The project entered the Legislative Assembly on March […]

Abstract: A couple of Central American countries are about to build two grand projects, hoping this will guarantee the big economic impulse this region needs to emerge from poverty. Nicaragua plans to build an interoceanic canal across its territory. Guatemala on its side, plans to build a dry canal. Both […]

 (Para una versión en español de este artículo, entrar aquí). Nina needed a place to put her trash. The rusty garbage bin near her house, like the bin down the street, was filled to the brim just days after the town’s garbage collectors made their weekly visit to Nina’s street […]

2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both of them are women – Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet from the right wing alliance and Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria from […]

Abstract: In Bolivia, the forced austerity is poverty. Poverty in a very rich country, rich in minerals, oil and its people, but a long history of mishandling of the public finances has led us to a deeply divided society. Our current president however, gave a different tone to things in 2006 […]