Tierramérica

Issue of September, 22, 2002



	Current Edition

	Report

	Accents

	Analysis

	Dialogues

	Notable Writings

	Eco-Briefs

	Gallery

	Video



	Contacts

	Permisos de uso

Report
War Games Are Deadly in Vieques
By Linda Dorow
Contaminated soil, the thunder of bombs dropped during U.S. military exercises and the specter of cancer disturb the dreams of the 9,400 people on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.

Q & A
"With neither head nor tail"
By Néfer Muñoz
No country is prepared for war, says the Colombian singer Juanes. Amid the incomprehensible violence of his country's ongoing civil war, music can heal the wounds of the soul, he told Tierramérica.

Notable Writings
In Search of "Private Statists"
By Fernando Almeida
The world is increasingly asking businesses to stop being mere instruments for pillaging the planet and humanity.

Connect Yourself
Montreal Protocol on Ozone
By
On environmental issues, the nations of the world seem to have a hard time reaching consensus, except in the case of the Montreal Protocol, which has become the symbol of the fact that treaties can be effective in solving problem created by humanity, in this instance, the deterioration of the Earth's atmospheric ozone layer.

Eco-Briefs

MEXICO: Government on Trial
The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) resolved to hear the charges of the Tarahumara Indians from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, who accuse the government of allowing the destruction of their forests by lumber companies and illegal loggers.

BRAZIL: Eco-Latina 2002 Under Way
The Fifth Latin American Conference on the Environment (Eco-Latina 2002), taking place Sep 24-27 in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, will be the region's first chance to assess the results of the Rio+10 Summit, which ended Sep 4 in Johannesburg.

EL SALVADOR: No Garbage in the Gulf!
The residents of the Salvadoran islands of Conchaguita and Zacatillo, in the Pacific Ocean, are the focus of a government plan to halt the dumping of solid waste into the sea, and to value the natural wealth of the Gulf of Fonseca.

NICARAGUA: Land in the Hands of Men
Around 82 percent of the private individual landowners in Nicaragua are men, with the remaining land belonging to women, according to the National Agricultural Census recently released by the government.

Lessons From a Unique Decade - José Graziano da Silva *
Rio+20 and Beyond: Together for a Sustainable Future - José Graziano da Silva *
Why Inclusive Green Growth Can Sustain Recent Gains in Latin America - Hasan Tuluy*
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox