continent:central america

La faillite de la « guerre contre la drogue » en chiffres
http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/07/04/lapidaire-la-faillite-de-la-guerre-contre-la-drogue-en-chiff
(source :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/business/in-rethinking-the-war-on-drugs-start-with-the-numbers.html ?

They are thinking about the wrong numbers. If there is one number that embodies the seemingly intractable challenge imposed by the illegal drug trade on the relationship between the United States and Mexico, it is $177.26. That is the retail price, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data, of one gram of pure cocaine from your typical local pusher. That is 74 percent cheaper than it was 30 years ago.

San Francisco Chronicle’s Julian Guthrie: John Keker of Keker & Van Nest Relishes The Fight In The Courtroom (TLR Note: A repetitious, trite, and banal Keker. Is PG&E behind Guthrie’s free PR? )

Please see @:
http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/san-francisco-chronicles-julian-guthrie-john-keker-of-keker-

TLR’s developing story on John Keker, Keker & Van Nest and Lance Armstrong, please see @:

►http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2012/05/22/lance-armstrong-andre-birotte-tony-west-keker-van-nest-elliot-p

TLR’s coverage of Keker & Van Nest, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/tags/keker-van-nest

TLR’s coverage of John Keker, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/johnkeker

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/johnkeker

BBC News - The race to get rainforest frogs into arks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17130758

Frogs matter - they play a vital role in the food chain, and some have been found to produce chemicals that cure human diseases.

#environnement

Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America - seattlepi.com
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mystery-disease-kills-thousands-in-Central-America-3288301.php

A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Scientists say they have received reports of the phenomenon as far north as southern Mexico and as far south as Panama.
(...)
Many of the victims were manual laborers or worked in sugar cane fields that cover much of the coastal lowlands. Patients, local doctors and activists say they believe the culprit lurks among the agricultural chemicals workers have used for years with virtually none of the protections required in more developed countries. But a growing body of evidence supports a more complicated and counterintuitive hypothesis.
The roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures, pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat stress for years on end. Many start as young as 10. The punishing routine appears to be a key part of some previously unknown trigger of chronic kidney disease,

le #travail (c’est pas la) #santé #cdp #chimie #agriculture

A l’origine de la théorie du " Choc des civilisations ", un article écrit par l’Islamologue Bernard Lewis en 1990 et intitulé « The roots of muslim rage. Why so many muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified »...

« La lutte entre ces deux systèmes rivaux écrit-il dure maintenant depuis 14 siècles. Elle a commencé avec l’avènement de l’islam au 7e siècle et a continué en pratique jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Elle a consisté en une longue série d’attaques et de contre attaques, de jihad, de croisades, de conquêtes et de reconquêtes. Cela n’est rien moins qu’un choc des civilisations, la réaction surement traditionnelle, mais surement historique, d’un ancien rival contre notre héritage judéo chrétien, notre présent séculier et l’expansion mondiale des deux. »

http://hegemonie.blogspot.com/2012/02/roots-of-muslim-rage.html

Triposo Labs : Wikigrowth
http://triposo.com/labs/snapshots
« un an de photos à travers le monde »
http://youtu.be/nPXa0wsmzbA

Guatemala becomes killing field as drug wars spread through Central America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/28/guatemala-town-mexico-narco-wars

Twenty-seven farm labourers were decapitated and had their heads strewn across a field one recent night, but ask neighbours and they reply with blank looks and apologetic shrugs, as if it happened in a distant land.

C’est l’occasion de vous suggérer la lecture de l’intéressant

The Candy Machine : how cocaïne took over the world

de Tom Feiling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/05/candy-machine-tom-feiling-review

Manuel Zelaya’s courageous homecoming | Amy Goodman (Relevé sur le net)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/01/honduras-hillaryclinton

The return of Honduras’s former president is a crucial challenge to the coup leaders to end their repression

Je ne sais pas ce qui est le plus terrible : le fait que cet article fallacieux sur le génocide rwandais soit écrit par un ancien co-auteur de Noam Chomsky, ou bien que ce soit le site de l’ex-Réseau Voltaire qui s’en fasse le relais...

Paul Kagamé : « Our Kind of Guy » [Voltaire]
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167964.html

#Rwanda #genocide #Kagame

#WikiLeaks #cablegate: #McDonald's used US to put pressure on El #Salvador The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-mcdonalds-us-el-salvador

McDonald’s tried to delay the US government’s implementation of a free-trade agreement in order to put pressure on El Salvador to appoint neutral judges in a $24m (£15.5m) lawsuit it was fighting in the country. The revelation of the McDonald’s strategy to ensure a fair hearing for a long-running legal battle against a former franchisee comes from a leaked US embassy cable dated 15 February 2006.