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Extractivismo y soberanía en América Latina — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

rt| 18/01/2022| Conversatorio con Michael Löwy, Sabrina Fernandes, Eduardo Gudynas y René Ramírez. ¿Cuál es la lectura del tipo de desarrollo …

Extractivismo y soberanía en América Latina — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

« El ORO no es más que polvo brillante en el barro … Nada es lo suficientemente fuerte como para restaurar el valor del bosque enfermo … Ninguna …

Niño Yanomami jugando en el río, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro « Los blancos esparcen sus humos epidémicos por todo el bosque … …

« El ORO no es más que polvo brillante en el barro … Nada es lo suficientemente fuerte como para restaurar el valor del bosque enfermo … Ninguna …

Learning our lessons

Petchary's Blog

I am really not keen on preaching to people about how they should live their lives. I don’t want to sound like the author of one of those self-help books (that I never read).

But…my next Bloganuary prompt is: What is a life lesson you feel everyone can benefit from learning?

Exactly what is a “life lesson,” for a start? I suppose it all begins with our very youthful naïveté, early on in our lives. One believes that one’s life will be smooth sailing: a glossy pathway stretching ahead that we glide along, just above the ground, picking brilliant flowers from the roadside along the way. I think that, pretty early on, one realizes that “nutten nuh guh so” (I think there’s a song of that name) – in other words, Nothing goes that way, even if you imagine it does. That expression brings you down to earth with a…

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Sterling Asset Management raises funds for Haiti

Petchary's Blog

Did I mention that this is an awesome company? Sterling Asset Management Ltd. is showing great corporate social responsibility towards our close neighbors. This appeal began at Christmas, so I am rather late posting it. However, it ends on January 31, 2022 – so you still have time to send some funds for a really good cause.

Sterling Asset Management Ltd. is raising money for Haiti through cash donations that will allow Food For The Poor Haiti to provide the needed support to save lives in Haiti.

People search through the rubble of what used to be the Manguier Hotel after the earthquake hit on August 14, 2021 in Les Cayes, southwest Haiti. – Rescue workers scrambled to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake.
The epicenter…

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