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Report
By Haider Rizvi

Weapons Flow to Poor Countries
As a U.S.-led war against Iraq looms, peace activists warn about the "silent" flow of arms from the weapons exporters of the industrialized North throughout the developing South. The global weapons market generates transactions worth an estimated 21.3 billion dollars annually.

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Francisco Bolívar Zapata
Francisco Bolívar Zapata
By Pilar Franco

Francisco Bolívar Zapata:
"I would eat all the transgenic foods"

Mexican scientist Francisco Bolívar Zapata participated three decades ago in creating the first genetically modified organisms. Today he says he believes in them more than ever.

 
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Dermochelys coriacea, una tortuga que sobrevivió a las glaciaciones.
Dermochelys coriacea, a survivor of the ice age
By Nohelia González and Edin Hernández

Can the Law Prevent Extinction?
In Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica talk is under way about the effectiveness of the ban on trade in endangered species, which experts and animal farmers say mitigates but does not solve the underlying problem.

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El tráfico de armas pequeñas es retratado en forma dramática por una exhibición de Unicef. Fuente: unicef.org
Small arms trafficking dramatically portrayed by a UNICEF exhibit.

Weapons for Sale
The weapons market evokes the dark side of world trade because it is ultimately a deadly business that moves billions of dollars each year. Some of the consequences are predictable: conflict, death, devastation.
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Howling monkeys regenerate Argentine forest… Colombia's new Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development… Dispute over mining in protected area reaches Peruvian court… New treatment for contaminated water in Mexico… Nicaragua's aquifer system under scrutiny… Honduran farmers to end use of methyl bromide on fruit crops
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