More than 1.2 million farmers in 66 developing countries produce goods such as sugar, coffee and cotton to promote social justice in poor regions. But not everyone benefits and there are even some negative effects. Benjamin Serra The impact of consumerism in the first world for people living […]
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A look at the Colombian conflict
An event will bring together different experts and academics in Sussex to analyse and debate the process of gaining peace which is currently being brought about between The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government. According to the latest declarations made by Iván Marquéz, spokesman of the […]
Schools in the United States of America: Stages for murderers
40% of American homes have firearms. The lack of adequate legislation and control of them may be the main reason why some of the largest massacres in the world happen in schools across the country. Benjamin Serra The end of 2012 offered a news story that covered the front covers […]
The sad and dirty faces of Dominican children
Edwin’s height barely reaches halfway up the windscreen of a Toyota Corolla, which is parked in a corner of the Dominican capital and nonetheless the boy, ten-years-old, tries to clean it to earn some money. . Diony Sanabia Abadia . The change of the traffic lights speeds up the boy’s […]
Britain: the first to recognize it will fall into contraflation
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has just recognized that the country faces an “unattractive” combination of economic contraction and high inflation. Santiago Brugal Almanza Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said that there is no “place to hide” from the slowdown in advanced […]