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Amon Carter Museum, "American Photographs, 1845 to Now”
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I would like to thank Assistant Curator of Photographs, Joy Jeehye Kim, PhD, and the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, TX for including the above image in their current exhibit, "American Photographs, 1845 to Now.” These 6-panels of imagery were created during the two years I spent in the Hudson River Valley working on a commission given to Stephen Shore, William Clift, and myself by the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund. Published as the Aperture monograph, “The Hudson River and the Highlands,” I also republished this work in greater length and detail in this blog: The Hudson River and the Highlands
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
The Lowell Thomas Award 2016
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2016 Lowell Thomas Awardees "Celebrating the Legacy of Open Spaces"
Left-to-Right: Kristine Tompkins, Rick Ridgeway, Laly Lichtenfeld, Martin von Hildebrand.
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Weekly Post, Where It All Began: LIMEKILN CREEK by Robert Glenn Ketchum
Where It All Began: Limekiln Creek by Robert Glenn Ketchum
In 1967, I discovered Limekiln Creek on the Big Sur Coast in California. Among those redwoods, I had an epiphany as a young artist. As a photographer, most of the skills I would use, I would learn there. Many years later in a mature career, I helped the American Land Conservancy acquire this property for the California State Park system. This is the story of a very personal place.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Where It All Began - Limekiln Creek, #44: This is a preface to this blog and the last post. In discovering AND then returning to Limekiln, I was inspired to change the direction of my work, and to greatly improve the quality of my photography - these decisions affected my life. Simultaneously I also had other important influences. My parents began leasing a house in Sun Valley (ID), from which some of my earliest published images were created ( SEE MY BLOG about the Decker Flats Climbing & Frisbee Club ). Then in transit to Sun Valley for a visit, as with Limekiln, I randomly discovered an amazing place in the desert that became to body of work, STONED IMMACULATE, a new blog that will begin next week in this spot. The above image is Paul Caponigro's "Apple, New York" 1964, or so it was titled when first published in Aperture magazine. At UCLA, a Robert Heinecken assignment had each of us choose a photographer "outside" of "our genre" and prepare a report/lecture with slides for a class presentation. Although I was "leaning" toward an interest in landscape, I still thought it less exciting than my experimental, hand-colored work, and Caponigro's work, which lacked the drama of Ansel Adams, seemed especially "quiet." I chose him because I viewed him boring and thought I would make that my lecture point, BUT the more I studied his images, the more I grew to understand what he saw. Then there was the final image, the endpiece of the publication. When presenting to the class, I said this was a great final image because it suggested he was doing "newer, more experimental work," and Heinecken asked, "How's that?" I responded that most his other images were landscapes, but this one of the night sky seemed more adventurous. Uniformly the class mumbled oddly, and then my friend, Bob Jenkins, spoke up and said, "What are you smoking, man? THAT is an apple." Having NOT read the image title, I missed that detail, but once he said it, I could see it. In fact, I could still see BOTH. This duality of being a "straight" photograph AND ALSO of "another world entirely" would become a subtext of my work for the rest of my life. In telling that story to workshop students once, I did not notice that Caponigro had come into the back of the classroom. After speaking, I took questions, and the last hand up was his. When he rose, I knew him, so I introduced him to the class. Paul said he was glad to hear that story and know the image affected me in that way, AND then he said I should tell Heinecken that "it WAS the night sky." He has since changed the title of this image to "Galaxy Apple."
photograph(s) © copyright, JOHN PAUL CAPONIGRO, 2016, @LittleBearProd, #LittleBearProd, ALC (@american_land), Monterey Pop Festival (@MontereyPopFest)
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The G2 Gallery Exhibit, " 100 Years of National Parks: The West"
If you have not done so, please come to The G2 Gallery in Venice, California and enjoy the exhibit of western national parks in celebration of their 100th Anniversary.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
NRDC & IUCN in Politico - #NoPebbleMine
Since the International Union for the Conservation of Nature @IUCN has recommended protecting southwest AK and Bristol Bay from the industrial development of the Pebble mine, Joel Reynolds, @NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), and I want to be sure our political leaders are aware of their resolution, so yesterday, this ad dropped in POLITICO.
Contact President Obama and the @EPA and tell them now is the time to act to permanently protect this remarkable ecosystem and the invaluable fishery. Now THE WORLD really is watching!
~Robert Glenn Ketchum
NRDC at the IUCN World Conservation Congress - #NoPebbleMine
Working with my good friend, Joel Reynolds and his amazing staff at @NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), who hosted a reception for the International Union for Conservation of Nature @IUCN World Conservation Congress attendees in Hawaii...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Earth To Pebble Mine: Stay Away From Bristol Bay. World Conservation Congress Registers Overwhelming International Opposition to Mega-Mine That Threatens Bristol Bay’s Wild Salmon Fishery by Joel Reynolds
Earth To Pebble Mine: Stay Away From Bristol Bay. World Conservation Congress Registers Overwhelming International Opposition to Mega-Mine That Threatens Bristol Bay’s Wild Salmon Fishery
by Joel Reynolds,
Western Director and Senior Attorney, NRDC, Los Angeles
A new chapter opened today in the battle against the proposed Pebble Mine, as the World Conservation Congress overwhelmingly adopted a motion opposing the embattled mega-mine and other large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska and urging the U.S. government to prevent the issuance of permits. With this action, an international body has for the first time formally joined longstanding opposition to the massive copper and gold project — a project that, for years, has been the focus of a relentless, broad-based campaign in Alaska and the lower 48 states to stop it.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
TATSHENSHINI: Saving a River Wild
TATSHENSHINI: Saving a River Wild by Robert Glenn Ketchum
In 1990, I was invited on a 10-day float down the Tatshenshini, a huge river system flowing from Western Canada to the Pacific Ocean that literally divides two of North America's largest national parks, Canada's Kluane National Park and Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. A gold mine was being proposed mid-river. I broke the story in LIFE magazine. There were many other articles and a book. The mine was never developed and the river is now a wilderness corridor. This is a conservation SUCCESS story!
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
TATSHENSHINI: Saving a River Wild, #115
TATSHENSHINI - Saving a River Wild, #115: Looking back at where we had come from on the previous evening, you can see that there is some open water close to the shore. It is very shallow here, so the larger bergs ground before reaching this point. The ice that is here is small enough that most of it can be pushed around and thus the guides have gone back into the water to pull the rafts through and around the obstacles in these shallows, and get them over to the open water of the outflowing Alsek river below the massive ice jam. Once again our collective camp trudges the gear across the broad beach to where the boats will be reloaded. Having finished that, most of us are pondering our last views of this place and I am marveling that we made it at all. Again, scale fails me, BUT that blue berg is the size of a small house. It, and those really dirty ones on either side, have completely sealed off ANY path through where we past last night. As we would eventually learn, the next six river float groups to follow during the ensuing week had to be picked up by helicopter from the bar where we had our late lunch. There was NO passage through this to the outlet and no one could float on to the airstrip pick-up.
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Book, "The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America" by Nicole Fabricant
The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism. The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America
by Nicole Fabricant
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first-Century Socialism.
by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.
Monday, August 15, 2016
Abstract, Latin American Studies: Publishing and Politics by Ronaldo Munck
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Latin American Studies: Publishing and Politics
by Ronaldo Munck
This is an opportune moment, I believe, to debate the future of Latin American studies journals, given their variety and well-established nature. My own standpoint derives from a long-term membership of the Latin American Perspectives advisory panel and a brief stint as chief editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK) as well as membership of around a dozen editorial boards of journals dedicated to labor and globalization studies. And, of course, as has any other active researcher I have faced the demands made by the powers that be on where we should publish and what we should publish.
by Ronaldo Munck
This is an opportune moment, I believe, to debate the future of Latin American studies journals, given their variety and well-established nature. My own standpoint derives from a long-term membership of the Latin American Perspectives advisory panel and a brief stint as chief editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK) as well as membership of around a dozen editorial boards of journals dedicated to labor and globalization studies. And, of course, as has any other active researcher I have faced the demands made by the powers that be on where we should publish and what we should publish.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Abstract, A View from the North by Rory M. Miller
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A View from the North
by Rory M. Miller
Having spent a significant part of my career editing the two major interdisciplinary journals on Latin America published in the United Kingdom, I have thought for years about what our role as editors should be in terms of linking different traditions of Latin American studies—North American, European (in all their various national guises), and Latin American (again, in all their various national guises). There were clear differences between the two journals. The Bulletin of Latin American Research was the journal of the (UK) Society for Latin American Studies, so one could envisage the “typical” reader as one of the 200 or so who attended annual conferences; the Journal of Latin American Studies, one of the two or three leaders internationally in the field, presented different challenges, since its readership was much broader and its reach much more global, evident in the fact that roughly 40 percent of submissions came from North America. (I should emphasize here that what follows is my personal view, not that of my editorial colleagues or the publisher of either journal.)
In the end I would hope that the Journal of Latin American …
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Latin American Perspectives
July 2016 vol. 43 no. 4 Abstract, pages 116-118
by Rory M. Miller
Having spent a significant part of my career editing the two major interdisciplinary journals on Latin America published in the United Kingdom, I have thought for years about what our role as editors should be in terms of linking different traditions of Latin American studies—North American, European (in all their various national guises), and Latin American (again, in all their various national guises). There were clear differences between the two journals. The Bulletin of Latin American Research was the journal of the (UK) Society for Latin American Studies, so one could envisage the “typical” reader as one of the 200 or so who attended annual conferences; the Journal of Latin American Studies, one of the two or three leaders internationally in the field, presented different challenges, since its readership was much broader and its reach much more global, evident in the fact that roughly 40 percent of submissions came from North America. (I should emphasize here that what follows is my personal view, not that of my editorial colleagues or the publisher of either journal.)
In the end I would hope that the Journal of Latin American …
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Latin American Perspectives
July 2016 vol. 43 no. 4 Abstract, pages 116-118
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Abstract, The Clash of Political Paradigms in Twenty-first-Century Latin America and the Response of Area-Study Journals by Steve Ellner
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The Clash of Political Paradigms in Twenty-first-Century Latin America and the Response of Area-Study Journals
by Steve Ellner
The relationship between state and society, particularly with regard to social movements and organizations, constitutes an important paradigmatic gap separating the experiences of Latin American and U.S. democracies and represents a challenge to area-study programs, including academic journals. These differences manifest themselves in major ways today as a result of the rise to power of leftist and center-leftist movements, as they also did in the past on different fronts. U.S. labor leaders, for instance, steeped in the tradition of Samuel Gompers who envisioned organized labor’s political role as that of a pressure group, have always felt uncomfortable with the political party affiliations of their Latin American counterparts. This line of thinking, which rests on the separation of social movements and the state, is reflected in the U.S. scholarly literature on organized labor in the region. Latin American trade unionists, on the other hand, justify the nexus by pointing to the supportive role played by parties during military dictatorships when many labor leaders are forced to go underground or into exile.
by Steve Ellner
The relationship between state and society, particularly with regard to social movements and organizations, constitutes an important paradigmatic gap separating the experiences of Latin American and U.S. democracies and represents a challenge to area-study programs, including academic journals. These differences manifest themselves in major ways today as a result of the rise to power of leftist and center-leftist movements, as they also did in the past on different fronts. U.S. labor leaders, for instance, steeped in the tradition of Samuel Gompers who envisioned organized labor’s political role as that of a pressure group, have always felt uncomfortable with the political party affiliations of their Latin American counterparts. This line of thinking, which rests on the separation of social movements and the state, is reflected in the U.S. scholarly literature on organized labor in the region. Latin American trade unionists, on the other hand, justify the nexus by pointing to the supportive role played by parties during military dictatorships when many labor leaders are forced to go underground or into exile.
SHANGHAI, OZ of the Orient by Robert Glenn Ketchum
SHANGHAI, OZ of the Orient by Robert Glenn Ketchum
During the reign of Mao (1949-1976), China was a closed country. China in the 1980’s was 80% rural, with no outside visitors, particularly from the West. When China opened to travelers, the Chinese government placed severe limitations on who was allowed to enter the country. These photographs are a continuation of other ongoing blog threads of the first glimpses into China in the mid-1980’s by world-renowned Conservation Photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
SHANGHAI, OZ of the Orient, #129
SHANGHAI, OZ of the Orient #129 - 1985 to the Present: This is my final post for this blog. I hope you will continue to follow SILK ROAD, however, as that blog is about the creation of the work that brought me to China in the first place. It has now been 4 years since my last visit and I miss the "emerald towers" of OZ; the strange energy of the streets; the amazing diversity of food; the crazy signage - and so much more. I hope those of you that have followed these blogs about China have enjoyed seeing this evolution of 30yrs. through my eyes. It is not typical to the work for which my career has become known, BUT I WAS THERE and in some degree just became a witness with a camera. Watching the stunning transition of this country was a privilege and I would like to thank UCLA for helping me to become the first American artist to enter the China Exchange Program.
SHANGHAI, OZ of the Orient #129 - 1985 to the Present: This is my final post for this blog. I hope you will continue to follow SILK ROAD, however, as that blog is about the creation of the work that brought me to China in the first place. It has now been 4 years since my last visit and I miss the "emerald towers" of OZ; the strange energy of the streets; the amazing diversity of food; the crazy signage - and so much more. I hope those of you that have followed these blogs about China have enjoyed seeing this evolution of 30yrs. through my eyes. It is not typical to the work for which my career has become known, BUT I WAS THERE and in some degree just became a witness with a camera. Watching the stunning transition of this country was a privilege and I would like to thank UCLA for helping me to become the first American artist to enter the China Exchange Program.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Book, "Contemporary Middle Class in Latin America A Study of San Felipe" by Omar Pereyra
Contemporary Middle Class in Latin America: A Study of San Felipe
OMAR PEREYRA
In the last decades, the Latin American middle class is growing in size while becoming more heterogeneous. Sustained economic growth explains its increasing size, but behind its heterogeneity there is not only the diversification of lifestyles, but also the crystallization of a large process of upward social mobility of second and third generation migrants to capital cities and their incorporation into middle-class positions. In the last decades, these individuals are now part of the different spheres of socialization formerly occupied by the traditional middle class: private schools, college and universities, middle-class jobs and occupations, and traditional middle-class neighborhoods.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Abstract, Publishing in International, Peer-reviewed Social Science Journals: Implications for Latin American Studies by Carmen Diana Deere
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Publishing in International, Peer-reviewed Social Science Journals Implications for Latin American Studies
by Carmen Diana Deere
The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.
by Carmen Diana Deere
The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Exclusive,"Medidas extraordinarias de seguridad en El Salvador: ¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el paÃs?" by Noemy Polanco and Harry E. Vanden
¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el paÃs?
Por
Noemy Polanco
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Harry E. Vanden
Después de abandonar una tregua entre las pandillas que se negoció con la ayuda del gobierno del FMLN en 2012 la violencia en El Salvador aumento significativamente, los registros del nivel de muertes violentas se elevó hasta alcanzar cifras entre los 25 o 30 homicidios por dÃa hasta llegar a más que 100 homicidios por 100,000, habitantes por ano haciendo el Salvador el paÃs no en guerra más violento en el mundo. Los niveles de violencia han sido atribuidos a las maras, las pandillas Mara Salvatrucha (MS ó MS-13) y Barrio 18 (M 18).Por ello el gobierno del FMLN, en turno hoy representado por el Presidente Salvador Sánchez Cerén, ha optado por implementar medidas extraordinarias en la búsqueda de reducir la violencia y desarticular las estructuras de crimen organizado en manos de grupos de pandillas.
Exclusive,"Medidas extraordinarias de seguridad en El Salvador: ¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el paÃs?" by Noemy Polanco and Harry E. Vanden
¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el paÃs?
Por
Noemy Polanco
Y
Harry E. Vanden
Después de abandonar una tregua entre las pandillas que se negoció con la ayuda del gobierno del FMLN en 2012 la violencia en El Salvador aumento significativamente, los registros del nivel de muertes violentas se elevó hasta alcanzar cifras entre los 25 o 30 homicidios por dÃa hasta llegar a más que 100 homicidios por 100,000, habitantes por ano haciendo el Salvador el paÃs no en guerra más violento en el mundo. Los niveles de violencia han sido atribuidos a las maras, las pandillas Mara Salvatrucha (MS ó MS-13) y Barrio 18 (M 18).Por ello el gobierno del FMLN, en turno hoy representado por el Presidente Salvador Sánchez Cerén, ha optado por implementar medidas extraordinarias en la búsqueda de reducir la violencia y desarticular las estructuras de crimen organizado en manos de grupos de pandillas.
El Presidente Sánchez Ceren, en su informe del segundo año de gobierno, consideró el tema de la seguridad pública como una prioridades en su administración, y sostuvo que la puesta en marcha de las medidas extraordinarias están dando resultados positivos. Él hizo énfasis en la reducción de homicidios y otros delitos considerados de alto impacto en la sociedad salvadoreña, la cual se ha visto agobiada por el accionar de grupos y estructuras criminales conformadas por las dos principales pandillas “MS” y Barrio “18”.
En enero del presente año los homicidios alcanzaron la cifra de 740, en febrero se contabilizaron 664, en marzo 611, en abril 353, en mayo 351 y en junio, se contabilizaron 331 homicidios a nivel nacional , el promedio del mes de junio alcanzó la cifra de 11 homicidios por dÃa y en enero era de 24 homicidios por dÃa ( según la estadÃstica de la PolicÃa Nacional Civil).
La polÃtica original del FMLN de hacer una trasformación profunda de El Salvador se frustró por la ayuda masiva que el gobierno estadounidense dió al gobierno y sectores conservadores y especialmente a las fuerzas de seguridad desde 1980 hasta la paz negociada en 1992.. Según la perspectiva norteamerican, han parado un revolución comunista. El partido fundado por Roberto d’Abuson (ARENA) y la ultra derecha mayormente dominó la polÃtica salvadoreña hasta la elección de Mauricio Funes a la presidencia de la república en 2009 pero el FMLN no tenÃa mayorÃa en la Asamblea Legislativa y tuvo que seguir una lÃnea menos radical. La condiciones socio-económicas en el paÃs, la falta de cambios estructurales y el aumento de las deportaciones de las Estados Unidos en los últimos años, son factores que han influido en la formación y aumento de las maras o pandillas en el paÃs centroamericano. Por ejemplo, de acuerdo a informes de la dirección general de migración de El Salvador, Estados Unidos deporta a cerca de 20 mil personas al año, solo en año 2014 la cifra de deportados alcanzó las 28,942 personas y en el año 2015 el número de deportados fue de 21, 752.. Asà que ese conjunto de factores ha ido generando mucha más violencia de las maras, hasta llegar a niveles intolerables para la población en general.
Los niveles de inseguridad generados por estos grupos delictivos se aumentaron, y el gobierno se sintió obligado tomar medidas drásticas en contra el crimen organizado, y desde mayo del presente año, echó andar un plan de “medidas extraordinarias” aprobadas y avaladas por unanimidad por los miembros del parlamento salvadoreño, conformado por las fracciones del partido gobernante Frente Farabundo Martà para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), asà como también por los diputados de la opositora de derecha, la Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) y otros partidos minoritarios, quienes lograron un consenso para apoyar al gobierno central en el combatir los niveles de violencia inaceptables..
Estas medidas , fueron orientadas en primer momento hacia siete centros penitenciarios ubicados en distintos puntos del territorio salvadoreño, desde donde los principales cabecillas de pandillas estaban ordenando extorsiones, asesinatos y otros crÃmenes por medio de comunicación con sofisticados aparatos celulares que eran introducidos de manera ilegal al interior de las prisiones. Para parar esta actividad se considera necesario aislar la señal de los teléfonos celulares, y de tal manera cortar la comunicación de los criminales desde el interior de las prisiones hacia afuera. Por su parte la policÃa nacional civil, en coordinación con las autoridades penitenciarias, y después de que el gobierno presionó las empresas telefónicas, realizó una supresión de comunicación celular y acciones operativas en los contornos de las cárceles para reducir la presencia de personas ligadas a miembros de grupos delictivos.
Después de organizar un grupo anti-pandillero dentro de la policÃa y el resultado incremento en violencia hacÃa la policÃa y sus familiares, el gobierno de la FMLN organizó la Fuerza Especializada de Reacción de El Salvador (FES) en base del conjunto de medidas extraordinarias en materia de seguridad. La Fuerza Especializada de Reacción El Salvador (FES), es un grupo elite conformado por mil hombres, entre 600 miembros del ejército y 400 policÃas, quienes han conformado patrullas y han sido diseminados en el territorio nacional, especialmente en áreas rurales, donde hay fuerte presencia de grupos de pandillas, mientras en las zonas urbanas la policÃa también cuenta con el apoyo del ejército para mantener la presencia gobermental controlando los territorios que han sidos en disputa con las maras.
El trabajo de la FES no únicamente se fundamenta en la represión del delito sino también en fomentar la confianza entre la ciudadanÃa honrada y decente que se ve afectada por estos grupos delictivos.
Pero más allá de todas las acciones operativas y preventivas que ejecuta el gobierno salvadoreño para mejorar los niveles de seguridad de sus habitantes, la población -- ya harta de la violencia-- reflejó su confianza en la Fuerza Especializada de Reacción (FES). En la más reciente encuesta de la CID Gallup Latinoamerica, publicada en el mes de mayo de 2016, revela que el 29% de los consultados dijo que esta fuerza hará mucho en el combate a la delincuencia, contra un 27% que dijo que hará poco, un 25% sostuvo que la fuerza hará algo, un 14% de los encuestados dijo que esta fuerza no hará nada y un 5% dijo no saber .
El Comisionado Howard Cotto director general de la PolicÃa Nacional Civil, a casi tres meses más de la vigencia de las medidas extraordinarias mantiene que los homicidios se han visto reducidos significativamente. El funcionario detalla que en enero de 2016, se contabilizaron 740 homicidios, lo que significaba 23.8 homicidios cada dÃa, en febrero el promedio diario fue de 23 homicidios , seguido de marzo con 19.7 homicidios por dÃa; mientras que en abril el promedio diario reflejo 11.7 homicidios , y en mayo de 2016 se cerró con 11.3 homicidios diarios. En cuanto al intercambio de disparos o enfrentamientos armados con grupos designados de terroristas (principalmente las pandillas), han ido en aumento. El dato la policÃa da hasta el 30 de junio del presente año cuenta que se han registrado 299 casos, en donde los agentes han sido atacados, en tales hechos 298 pandilleros han fallecido tras enfrentarse con las fuerzas de seguridad.
Pero se han registrado algunas denuncias de personas sobre los supuestos excesos de la fuerza policial, cuyos casos están siendo investigados por la procuradurÃa para la defensa de los derechos humanos en El Salvador, mientras las autoridades de seguridad afirman que no tolerarán abusos de esa naturaleza , porque resta la confianza y credibilidad entre la población. Otra medida es la permanente campaña de denuncia en contra de los 100 criminales ya identificados y más buscados, de los cuales 15 ya fueron arrestados gracias al trabajo de inteligencia y denuncia ciudadana.
Los resultados obtenidos en materia de seguridad, a través de las medidas extraordinarias, son “resultados alentadores” dijo el presidente salvadoreño durante su intervención al rendir el informe de su segundo año de gestión presidencial, al tiempo que agradeció al sector polÃtico del parlamento la aprobación de 152 millones de dólares destinados al financiamiento de la seguridad pública. Y para financiar estas iniciativas, el gobierno ratificó una taza de 5% en el servicio telefónico y la venta de aparatos telefónicos Las medidas extraordinarias están funcionando bien, aseguran las autoridades del gobierno y si la tendencia de reducción de homicidios sigue como hasta ahora afirma el director de policÃa, “ de continuar la tendencia asÃ, por primera vez estaremos poniendo el primer semestre de este año en verde, es decir que tendremos menos homicidios que en el primer semestre del año anterior.” A la par de las medidas extraordinarias de seguridad, el gobierno salvadoreño también impulsa otros programas complementarios de carácter social que involucra a los jóvenes, con el propósito de alejarlos de la violencia pandilleril, e incluirlos en programas de desarrollo educativo y que estos tengan mayores oportunidades en el campo laboral.
Pero hay que preguntarse si es posible mantener estas bajas en los Ãndices de violencia y diminución en los números y poder de las pandillas, si la policÃa podÃa mantener su presencia en los espacios donde han suprimido la violencia pandillera, si la falta de empleo y otras posibilidades para los jóvenes pueden mejorarse de una manera suficiente para hacer más difÃcil el reclutamiento de jóvenes a las maras, y, por fin, si la policÃa puede proteger y no molestar los jóvenes y sus familias de una manera suficiente para convencerles que no tienen que confirmarses al régimen pandillera en su barrio.
Abstract, The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant
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The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations
by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant
The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.
by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant
The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.
Abstract, Latin American Studies Journals at a Critical Juncture
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Latin American Studies Journals at a Critical Juncture
At the Thirty-third International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in 2015, Latin American Perspectives sponsored a featured session entitled “Latin American Studies Journals at a Critical Juncture.” Suggested themes and issues for discussion were the following:
How can journals best serve as a means of dialogue between academics in Latin America and the global North?
At the Thirty-third International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in 2015, Latin American Perspectives sponsored a featured session entitled “Latin American Studies Journals at a Critical Juncture.” Suggested themes and issues for discussion were the following:
How can journals best serve as a means of dialogue between academics in Latin America and the global North?
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Book, "FOR-GET Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile" by Claudia Bucciferro
Monday, August 1, 2016
Abstract, Unsettling Times: Living with the Changing Horizons of the Peruvian Andes by Mattias Borg Rasmussen
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Unsettling Times: Living with the Changing Horizons of the Peruvian Andes
by Mattias Borg Rasmussen
As in many other parts of the Peruvian Andes, the peasants of rural Recuay report receding glaciers, altered patterns of precipitation, and disappearing species of plants and wildlife among the many things that may unsettle the everyday. Susan Whyte’s concept of uncertainty highlights the fact that climate change emerges in different ways in particular situations. It informs water politics and local lives but is not a priori the most important part of the story. Rather than adapting to climate change, people adapt climate change to their social worlds.
by Mattias Borg Rasmussen
As in many other parts of the Peruvian Andes, the peasants of rural Recuay report receding glaciers, altered patterns of precipitation, and disappearing species of plants and wildlife among the many things that may unsettle the everyday. Susan Whyte’s concept of uncertainty highlights the fact that climate change emerges in different ways in particular situations. It informs water politics and local lives but is not a priori the most important part of the story. Rather than adapting to climate change, people adapt climate change to their social worlds.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Book, "Cauca's Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia Land, Violence, and Ethnic Identity" by Brett Troyan
Cauca's Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia
Land, Violence, and Ethnic Identity
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Book, "Oil in the Soil. The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon" by Pamela L. Martin
Oil in the Soil
The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Book, "Disrupting Maize Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico" by Gabriela Mendez Cota
Disrupting Maize
Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
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