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  Number 384 | Julio 2013

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Nicaragua

The challenge of the others
Scientists have demonstrated that social intelligence was born and developed in our species’ brains over our very long evolution in response to the “challenge of the others.” If true, this month offered a good example of how the Ortega government uses social intelligence, which is defined as the capacity to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments. It’s sad evidence on this new anniversary of the revolution.... continuar...

Nicaragua

NICARAGUA BRIEFS
PETROCARIBE SUMMIT The eighth Petrocaribe Summit was held in Managua between June 27 and 29, and was attended by top officials and Heads of State of 18 nations representing 83 million inhabitants... continuar...

Nicaragua

The canal will irreversibly damage Lake Cocibolca
This top official of an organization that promotes territorial development and environmental management shares his concerns about the ecological risks to Lake Cocibolca of building an inter-oceanic canal that runs through it..... continuar...

Nicaragua

34 years of blameful forgetfulness, 23 of interested memory
“I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them.” This idea by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, in his book The World of Yesterday, buffeted my memory and guided my pen as I wrote on this new anniversary of our revolution.... continuar...

El Salvador

The case of Beatriz: Who gets to decide?
Beatriz is a young peasant woman with lupus and pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Should her pregnancy be terminated or not? This extreme case, which made international news, revived El Salvador’s debate on abortion. It is a debate in which many people speak, but in which the last word should belong to the women who live these dilemmas.... continuar...

Guatemala

The Ríos Montt trial was a historic milestone
Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide on May 10. Days later, the Constitutionality Court threw out the conviction and annulled everything that had been heard after a certain date. Whatever happens to this trial legally from here on out, it was a transcendental milestone in Guatemala’s history. The Ixil people showed the world how they had suffered, we were introduced to three brave and honest judges and the country’s shameless, structural racism was demonstrated yet again.... continuar...

Honduras

Our country needs a truce, and not just with gangs
The unilateral truce announced in May by Honduras’ two most violent gangs has been received with official silence, social skepticism and even calls for revenge. These gangs have taken the first step, but they’re not the only ones generating violence. Other sources of violence—other «gangs»— ought to follow the example and declare a truce. In fact, Honduras needs many truces.... continuar...

Internacional

The masses in the streets
“The demonstrations in the streets of Brazil are bringing political analysts and scientists to the fore,” muses the Brazilian Dominican friar known as Frei Betto. And he answers himself: “The message of the streets is simple: Our governments have removed themselves from the social base. To use a Marxist term, political society is separated from civil society.” In this brief piece, former Franciscan priest Leonard Boff also poses questions and gives answers, and they echo in today’s Nicaragua.... continuar...

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