In Peru, video spurs critics of pasta factory

April 2001

Climate change

Bush about-face meets with mild Latin response

When the Bush Administration slammed the door on the Kyoto Protocol last month, there was widespread anger and dismay: the European Union accused it of ......

Mexico

For Mexico, a breath of fresh air?

A Mexican-born Nobel laureate has come home to tackle this city’s eye-watering air pollution—and the political inertia that too often sustains it. Chemist Mario Molina and ......

Peru

In Peru, video spurs critics of pasta factory

Noodles and endangered wetlands are among the latest ingredients in the corruption scandal that has roiled Peru since former president Alberto Fujimori’s surprise resignation last ......

Panama

Fate of canal-side forest in Panama in doubt

In 1903, when Panama ceded a strip of land 10 miles wide to the U.S. government for construction of a canal, the country was covered ......

Mexico

Baja targeted for ports, marinas and more

Mexican officials have unveiled plans for a trans-peninsular boat-hauling service in Baja California, as well as an extensive network of new harbors and docking facilities ......

Around the Region

Montevideo residents protest government inaction on lead

Reports that Uruguayan authorities ignored serious heavy-metal contamination in a Montevideo neighborhood prompted the creation last month of a Health Emergency Commission (CES) to address ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Petrobras occupies the hot seat...again

When explosions last month crippled Brazil’s giant P-36 offshore oil platform and killed 11 workers, experts immediately feared an environmental calamity. The world’s largest floating ......

Q&A

For Molina, cooperation is key to air-policy puzzle

Mario Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on chlorofluorocarbons, often has been cited as an example of Mexico’s brain ......

In Peru, video spurs critics of pasta factory

Peru

Noodles and endangered wetlands are among the latest ingredients in the corruption scandal that has roiled Peru since former president Alberto Fujimori’s surprise resignation last year. After Fujimori fled Peru for Japan in November, investigators began reviewing videotapes secretly recorded by former presidential advisor and intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos during his ten-year tenure as Fujimori’s right-hand man. The so-called “Vladi-videos” have riveted Peruvians by revealing the inner workings of Fujimori’s corruption-riddled regime. Several people are in jail and many others have been on the run since debuting in the tapes. Now environmentalists hope to use a video released last month to oust a powerful Chilean pasta maker from Lima’s only natural reserve. The company in question is Lucchetti, the subject... [Log in to read more]

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April 2001

Climate change

Bush about-face meets with mild Latin response

When the Bush Administration slammed the door on the Kyoto Protocol last month, there was widespread anger and dismay: the European Union accused it of ......

Mexico

For Mexico, a breath of fresh air?

A Mexican-born Nobel laureate has come home to tackle this city’s eye-watering air pollution—and the political inertia that too often sustains it. Chemist Mario Molina and ......

Peru

In Peru, video spurs critics of pasta factory

Noodles and endangered wetlands are among the latest ingredients in the corruption scandal that has roiled Peru since former president Alberto Fujimori’s surprise resignation last ......

Panama

Fate of canal-side forest in Panama in doubt

In 1903, when Panama ceded a strip of land 10 miles wide to the U.S. government for construction of a canal, the country was covered ......

Mexico

Baja targeted for ports, marinas and more

Mexican officials have unveiled plans for a trans-peninsular boat-hauling service in Baja California, as well as an extensive network of new harbors and docking facilities ......

Around the Region

Montevideo residents protest government inaction on lead

Reports that Uruguayan authorities ignored serious heavy-metal contamination in a Montevideo neighborhood prompted the creation last month of a Health Emergency Commission (CES) to address ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Petrobras occupies the hot seat...again

When explosions last month crippled Brazil’s giant P-36 offshore oil platform and killed 11 workers, experts immediately feared an environmental calamity. The world’s largest floating ......

Q&A

For Molina, cooperation is key to air-policy puzzle

Mario Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on chlorofluorocarbons, often has been cited as an example of Mexico’s brain ......