In Panama the IDB takes new, “participatory” tack

March 1999

Panama

In Panama the IDB takes new, “participatory” tack

They arrived on foot and on horseback, by bus and by helicopter. From indigenous communities came Emberás, Wounaans and Kunas, some wearing face and body ......

Venezuela

Venezuela to try conservation plan with entrepreneurial twist

Can catching and selling parrots and macaws be called conservation? The wildlife division of Venezuela’s Environment Ministry thinks so. Starting in April, the agency known ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Killings raise anew the issue of U’wa rights

Projects don’t get much more star-crossed than Occidental Petroleum’s quest for oil in northeast Colombia’s Samoré block. After Colombia’s Environment Ministry signed off four years ago ......

Biosafety

Latin nations differ in world biosafety talks

As some journalists reported it, last month’s hectic but ultimately inconclusive talks here to regulate trade in genetically modified organisms divided neatly along North vs. ......

U.S.-Mexico

Treatment plant targets “renegade flows”

The bi-national sewage plant near here has been hailed as a model for U.S.-Mexican environmental cooperation, which is why it rated a vice-presidential visit at ......

Around the Region

Offshoot of huge gas line draws objections

Construction of the Bolivia-to-Brazil natural gas line, the largest pipeline project ever in South America, is nearing completion. According to sponsors Enron International and partners, ......

Centerpiece

Hydro still king here, but not so Pharaonic

Hydroelectric power is the 800-pound gorilla on Brazil’s energy scene. And with numerous new dam projects scheduled, it looks likely to remain so for the ......

Q&A

For Quadri, a new post—but same market solutions

Gabriel Quadri served for three years as one of Mexico’s top environmental regulators, heading the National Ecology Institute. He left that post in 1997 to ......

In Panama the IDB takes new, “participatory” tack

Panama

They arrived on foot and on horseback, by bus and by helicopter. From indigenous communities came Emberás, Wounaans and Kunas, some wearing face and body paint, some in brightly patterned leggings and embroidered pinafores. From farming villages came Latino settlers with their straw hats and up-turned brims. And from the city came politicians and journalists in slacks and skirts for a day in the country. The occasion was the ceremonial signing of a $70-million, Inter-American Development Bank loan to Panama at this village in remote Darién, the country’s easternmost, and least governable, province. The purpose: to fund a six-year project the bank is billing as a novel approach to rural development. At the heart of the project are transportation improvements—most... [Log in to read more]

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March 1999

Panama

In Panama the IDB takes new, “participatory” tack

They arrived on foot and on horseback, by bus and by helicopter. From indigenous communities came Emberás, Wounaans and Kunas, some wearing face and body ......

Venezuela

Venezuela to try conservation plan with entrepreneurial twist

Can catching and selling parrots and macaws be called conservation? The wildlife division of Venezuela’s Environment Ministry thinks so. Starting in April, the agency known ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Killings raise anew the issue of U’wa rights

Biosafety

Latin nations differ in world biosafety talks

As some journalists reported it, last month’s hectic but ultimately inconclusive talks here to regulate trade in genetically modified organisms divided neatly along North vs. ......

U.S.-Mexico

Treatment plant targets “renegade flows”

The bi-national sewage plant near here has been hailed as a model for U.S.-Mexican environmental cooperation, which is why it rated a vice-presidential visit at ......

Around the Region

Offshoot of huge gas line draws objections

Construction of the Bolivia-to-Brazil natural gas line, the largest pipeline project ever in South America, is nearing completion. According to sponsors Enron International and partners, ......

Centerpiece

Hydro still king here, but not so Pharaonic

Hydroelectric power is the 800-pound gorilla on Brazil’s energy scene. And with numerous new dam projects scheduled, it looks likely to remain so for the ......

Q&A

For Quadri, a new post—but same market solutions

Gabriel Quadri served for three years as one of Mexico’s top environmental regulators, heading the National Ecology Institute. He left that post in 1997 to ......