#Climate_Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/07/world/americas/bolivia-climate-change-lake-poopo.html
After surviving decades of water diversion and cyclical El Niño droughts in the #Andes, #Lake_Poopó basically disappeared in December. The ripple effects go beyond the loss of livelihood for the #Quispes and hundreds of other fishing families, beyond the migration of people forced to leave homes that are no longer viable.
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity
NICHOLAS CASEY, The New-York Times, le 7 juillet 2016
#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
on l’ajoute donc à la troisième compilation :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/680147
Vintage Shaded #Relief Basemap
▻https://adventuresinmapping.com/2019/02/15/vintage-shaded-relief-basemap
As a follow-up to this experiment ▻https://adventuresinmapping.com/2019/02/12/smashing-vintage-hillshade-with-imagery , I’ve tried it out on a global retro shaded relief plate beautifully hand-painted by Kenneth Townsend, so it could be tiled up as a basemap at large scales (the zoomed-out ones).
You can play with it here: ▻https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=ccbfec91e19d4f9fb0769af361c31516
And see how it was made here: ▻https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/vintage-shaded-relief-basemap
La version tuilée est un peu moins belle que la version statique ci-dessous, mais c’est un plaisir de pouvoir se déplacer en suivant la cordillère des Andes !
#map
Globalization Downfall - How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7551897
Globalization Downfall - How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility | #anthropology #freedom #responsibility #speed #globalization #civilization #action #powerlessness
l’article relié est pris d’ici :
▻https://www.sapiens.org/culture/globalization-downfall-gladstone-australia
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Needless to say, there is a great deal of diversity in both the kinds of change being experienced in these places and the local reactions. To some, change offers job opportunities, peace, and improved infrastructure; to others, it means pollution, eviction, and a loss of livelihood. What all residents have in common is a loss of political autonomy. The decisions shaping their lives are being made further and further away from the specific locales where they live.
One example from our research is a town in the Peruvian Andes where water was becoming scarce a few years ago. The locals suspected that a new mine was using their water, and they went to complain. However, the mining representatives claimed that it was not their fault and blamed global climate change for the erratic water supply. The question of who to blame and what to do suddenly became insurmountable for the townspeople. What could they do—send a worried email to then U.S. President Barack Obama and the Chinese government, urging them to curb greenhouse gas emissions? The gap was, naturally, too dizzying. Instead, some of them resorted to traditional healing rituals to placate the spirits regulating rain and meltwater. They trusted Pachamama, the goddess of Earth, more than their government or distant international organizations.
Meanwhile in Lunsar, Sierra Leone, people were looking forward to job opportunities in a new mine (which, in any event, never opened) and a biofuel plantation (which did open). Globalization had brought them many benefits, notably an improved infrastructure. They relished the fact that, for the first time, they could buy bread from a roadside vendor that wasn’t covered in dust, since the road had finally been paved. But even in the midst of some positive outcomes, rapid change is creating discontent and frictions, not least over property rights. In traditional African societies, land was not considered property and could not be traded: It was allocated by the chief, used as a common resource available to all, or cultivated according to customary law. More recently, land has been privatized and turned into a form of capital, and suddenly, boundaries need to be drawn in an unequivocal way. Needless to say, these boundaries are contested.
Various stakeholders try to work out a land dispute near Lunsar, Sierra Leone, in connection with a mining project.
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In the mid-1800s, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto, capitalists were easily identifiable. They were typically men, and the property owner was the proverbial man in the top hat, with his waistcoat, paunch, cigar, and gold watch. Today, the situation is far more complicated since ownership structures are transnational, corporate, and complex. Even in democratic countries, where political leaders are elected, there is a widespread feeling that the “powers that be” are further away and less approachable than before, and that there is nowhere to go with your complaints. In other words, both the economy and politics are less manageable, more difficult to understand, and harder to effectively react to.
There are alternatives to the current situation of powerlessness. One way to counter globalized power is to globalize the response by forging alliances between local community groups and transnational organizations that are capable of putting pressure on governments, public opinion, and corporations. This has been a successful strategy among feminists, trade unionists, and environmentalists in the recent past. Another option—an opposite yet complementary strategy—is to resist the forces that threaten to overrun and disempower local communities. One of the most striking examples of this strategy is the burgeoning support for locally grown food.
Gladstone is unique compared to previously traditional societies in that it is enmeshed in the economic globalization, which makes the little man and woman even smaller than they used to be. The city’s rise to prosperity was indeed a result of globalization. Yet, the same forces may well cause its downfall. Crucially dependent on fossil fuels, the city may once again become a dusty backwater should the world find better energy solutions.
Signs of the city’s vulnerability are already evident: Since coal and gas prices began largely declining in 2013, and then a major construction project ended in 2015, the city has seen an unprecedented rise in unemployment and a steep fall in real estate prices.
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50 ans après Mai 68, les nouveaux combats de l’émancipation : Saúl, un agriculteur péruvien, milite pour sauver les glaciers
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/50-ans-apres-mai-68-les-nouveaux-combats-de-l-emancipation-saul-un-agri
C’est une rencontre au sommet du monde. Dans l’impressionnant massif montagneux des Andes, baptisé la cordillère blanche, au nord-est du Pérou. C’est …
#Día_de_la_Pachamama: cómo es el popular ritual en homenaje a la Madre Tierra - 31.07.2017 - LA NACION
▻http://www.lanacion.com.ar/2048261-dia-de-la-pachamama-como-es-el-popular-ritual-en-homenaje-a-la-
El 1 de agosto se celebra el Día de la #Pachamama. Se trata del festejo más popular de los pueblos originarios de América Latina. El día celebra a la Madre Tierra: «Pacha» en aimara y quechua significa tierra, mundo, universo.
En la ceremonia, creada por los pueblos de los andes centrales, se realizan una serie de ofrendas para festejar la naturaleza «protectora» y fecunda de la tierra, que varían según la región.
Venezuela: Gobierno saca del aire canal de TV universitario
El Canal de la Universidad de Los Andes, ULA TV, salió del aire de manera abrupta el jueves 15 de junio de 2017 tras una inspección de la Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL), quienes apagaron el transmisor del medio sin previo aviso y confiscaron los equipos. La señal salió del aire a las 10:30 am aproximadamente.
The Fight - Documenting Disability Activists Caravan of Courage in Bolivia
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-fight-documenting-disability-activists-caravan-of-courage-in-bol
People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up of being ignored, a group of them marched across the Andes to the seat of the Government in La Paz, asking to...
Indigenous lands ’critical’ to forest protection in Peru, biodiversity maps show
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/indigenous-lands-critical-to-forest-protection-in-peru-biodiversity-m
New maps of forest biodiversity in Peru illustrate the importance of lands held by indigenous peoples in safeguarding a wide variety of forest types, even as more formal protections such as parks and reserves fall a little bit short.
“Peru has a pretty good report card overall” in how the country protects its 76 million hectares (293,438 square miles) of forests, said Greg Asner, a global ecologist from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) in Stanford, California, who led the research. The research found that nearly 43 percent of forests in the Andes or the Amazon benefited from some sort of protection.
But as Asner and his colleagues layered the data gathered from the skies above Peru with maps of the country’s local, regional and national protected areas, a “really surprising” conclusion stood out: “These indigenous lands are just critical in the portfolio of protections in Peru today,” Asner said in an interview. They published their research in the June 2017 edition of the journal Biological Conservation.
The House of the Nobodies — Where Everyone Is Welcome
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-house-of-the-nobodies-where-everyone-is-welcome
La Casa de los Ningunos is an experimental community in the Bolivian capital city of La Paz, 12,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains. In a recent piece on the Casa, Sian Cowman explained the...
Population Cosmos :
▻http://infowetrust.com/humboldt
Stacked bars allow comparison across nations of the total number of early data visualization pioneers, in the style of a chart from Alexander von Humboldt’s 1811 Atlas Geographique Et Physique Du Royaume De La Nouvelle-Espagne (Geographic and Physical Atlas of the Kingdom of New Spain):
Rumsey Collection
#Alexander_von_Humboldt was a Prussian polymath famous for a scientific expedition to Latin America (1799-1804) which laid the foundation for modern biogeography and long term geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. He was the first to explore the New World extensively with a modern scientific perspective. He came away from adventures through Venezuela, Cuba, the Andes, Mexico, and the United States, with a fortune of data collected using the most modern scientific instruments available. His quantitative methodology – which featured observation, precision, and the aesthetic ideals of Romanticism – became known as Humboldtian science.
In addition to the stacked bar chart featured here, Humboldt also constructed the first isothermal chart:
#visualisation #cartoexperiment #précurseurs #cartographes #cartographie #Humboldt
7 DIY Treatments to Avoid the Doctor - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/7-diy-treatments-to-avoid-the-doctor
A South American legend has it that, centuries ago, a native, suffering from high malarial fever, got lost in the Andes. Thirsty, he drank from a pool of stagnant water. The bitter taste prompted a ghastly realization: The surrounding cinchona trees, whose bark was thought to be poisonous, must have contaminated the water. He thought he’d die. But soon, his fever disappeared. Turns out he accidentally discovered quinine, still used today as an effective anti-malarial drug. Even if the legend is untrue, researchers maintain that quinine was “the most serendipitous medical discovery of the 17th century,” when Jesuit missionaries in South America, referring to it as “sacred bark,” used it to treat malarial fever. Quinine’s a quintessential “do-it-yourself” cure, and many more have since been (...)
Dans le lac Titicaca, 10.000 grenouilles sont mortes : la pollution en cause ? (MAJ)
▻http://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/developpement-durable-lac-titicaca-10000-grenouilles-sont-mortes-po
Dans le lac Titicaca, au Pérou, 10.000 grenouilles géantes sont mortes, mais de quoi ? Mystère… D’après les habitants, des milliers de ces batraciens gisent sur les berges de cet immense lac d’altitude. Les premières observations officielles confirment l’évènement. Quelle en est la cause ? Une pollution, sans doute. L’état de ce lac inquiète en effet depuis longtemps.
▻http://www.planetaazul.com.mx/site/2011/11/10/estadounidenses-trabajaran-en-conservacion-de-rana-gigante-del-titic
ESTADOUNIDENSES TRABAJARÁN EN CONSERVACIÓN DE RANA GIGANTE DEL TITICACA
Especialistas del zoológico estadounidense de Denver trabajarán en la conservación de la rana gigante o “Telmatobius culeus” de la reserva nacional del Titicaca (RNT), informó el Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado (Sernanp).
LIMA, Perú; 10 noviembre 2011.- Para coordinar acciones, el jefe de la RNT, Víctor Apaza Vargas, se reunió con Tom Weaver y Matt Herbert, especialistas en crianza y evaluación de poblaciones de la especie, como también en educación ambiental del zoológico, respectivamente; y su representante en Perú, Roberto Elías, de la Universidad Cayetano Heredia.
Se acordó incluir al “Telmatobius culeus” en los monitoreos de recursos que se realizan en la RNT, así como identificar, a través de un análisis de ADN, la existencia de más de una especie o subespecies del batracio.
El Sernanp indicó que la especie es atacada por el hongo “Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis”, responsable de la disminución de la población de anfibios. La iniciativa también busca incluir a la especie dentro del programa de educación ambiental del área natural protegida para sensibilizar a la población estudiantil sobre la importancia y el peligro en que se encuentra la “Telmatobius culeus”
(Los Andes)
Une explication avec un champignon
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EmmcJTJA2M0/UZtjpBgdTkI/AAAAAAAAABo/AgCg3So7_cM/s1600/asesino+de+ranas.jpg 
Desde finales de los 90, el hongo quítrido (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) ha producido el declive y la desaparición de numerosas poblaciones de ranas a nivel mundial. Este hongo dulceacuícola originario de Sudáfrica, parasita la piel de los anfibios, produciendo una enfermedad conocida como quitridiomicosis, que en la mayoría de los casos culmina con la muerte del animal parasitado. El “asesino” de ranas –nombre célebre de este hongo–es rápido y no tiene compasión; asfixian a sus víctimas bloqueando la respiración cutánea –que en anfibios es muy importante–.
Es necesario destacar que si bien en algunos lugares el hongo ha causado importantes daños, en otros se ha visto que los anfibios infectados pueden vivir por años en la naturaleza sin desarrollar síntomas de la enfermedad. Esta relación de parasitismo está afectada por las condiciones ambientales. En el laboratorio, el hongo quítrido crece mejor entre 17 y 25 ºC; temperaturas por encima de los 25 ºC pueden eliminar la infección. En la naturaleza, la prevalencia de la infección en la población y las tasas de mortalidad del hospedador están frecuentemente relacionadas con las condiciones ambientales del medio; las tasas de infección son más altas durante los meses más fríos y en sitios elevados. Mayores temperaturas corporales, se traducen en menor susceptibilidad al hongo.
Los anfibios son animales ectotermos, es decir, animales que no tienen mecanismos propios para regular su temperatura corporal y, por tanto, depende de la temperatura ambiental –nosotros somos endotermos, mantenemos nuestra temperatura corporal independientemente de la temperatura ambiental–. Aquellos anfibios que pasan más tiempo expuestos a temperaturas ambientales altas, tienen temperaturas corporales más elevadas y, por tanto, son menos vulnerables a la infección por el hongo quítrido.
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Sea cual sea la explicación correcta, este estudio muestra que el historial térmico ambiental en la naturaleza aumenta la vulnerabilidad a las enfermedades, y nos dota de una nueva herramienta en la lucha contra la quitridiomicosis.
▻http://eltopoquequeriaver.blogspot.fr/2013/05/la-temperatura-corporal-afecta-al.html
Acaparamiento de tierras en Colombia
Desde inicios de siglo, en los territorios latinoamericanos y del Caribe, al igual que en muchas otras regiones del Sur global, ha venido ganando fuerza un inusitado interés por adquirir tierras por medio de todos los repertorios de acaparamiento —incluidos la persuasión o el despojo—, a fin de instaurar cultivos que pueden destinarse para bioenergía, material industrial, alimentación humana o alimentación animal, pero también para el establecimiento de otros sembradíos comerciales, pasturas, plantaciones forestales, extracción de minerales e hidrocarburos, y la instauración de presas hidroeléctricas. El fenómeno es de tal envergadura que el observatorio global Landmatrix2 registra transacciones por 5 millones 600 mil hectáreas desde el año 2000, es decir: una superficie superior a la totalidad de Costa Rica. A pesar de lo escandaloso que pueda resultar dicha cifra, el acaparamiento de tierras en la región es todavía mucho peor, pues en esa extensión sólo se tienen en cuenta acuerdos realizados por extranjeros en predios mayores a 200 hectáreas en los que existe un cambio de producción de pequeña a gran escala, además de que únicamente se consideran transacciones transparentes, y de que existe un sub-registro, por la dificultad de contabilizar otras modalidades de acaparamiento.
▻https://www.grain.org/es/article/entries/5251-acaparamiento-de-tierras-en-colombia
#terres #Colombie #accaparement_de_terres
cc @odilon
signalé par @DilbertoTrujillo
Así es la Colombia rural
La concentración de la tierra y la desigualdad han crecido en la última década en el campo. El índice Gini rural, que mide la desigualdad, pasó de 0,74 a 0,88. La mayor concentración de la tierra está en Córdoba y Caquetá, según el Cede, de la Universidad de los Andes. La mayor desigualdad está en Antioquia y Valle. La mayor concentración de la propiedad está en las zonas ganaderas y en las que se explotan recursos naturales. La mayor concentración de la tierra está asociada a mayor persistencia de los mismos grupos políticos, es decir, donde el sistema democrático está capturado por grupos de interés.
▻http://www.semana.com/especiales/pilares-tierra/asi-es-la-colombia-rural.html
Architectures émergentes à #El_Alto (#Bolivie) : essai d’interprétation sociologique
This article applies Bourdieu’s analysis of the formation of the “scholastic habitus” in medieval times, elaborated in his 1967 afterword to his French translation of Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (2005 [1967]), to a different historical case and social context, namely the correspondence between indigenous mental categories and architectural efflorescence in a city of the contemporary Andes: El Alto. This same principle of homology between mental categories and building layout (rooted in a common habitus) can be used to interpret one of the most spectacular characteristics of “emerging architectures” known as chalets in Bolivia. The term chalet designates a hybrid structure consisting of a penthouse and storey dwelling built on the rooftops. The chalets are architectural forms embedded within an economy of symbolic goods characterized by a “dual truth”: they are at once material and symbolic; they perform economic functions while at the same time seeking conspicuous exposure and public visibility. The hypothesis developed here is that the conspicuous lifestyle revealed by the construction of chalets on the rooftops can be understood by reference to the emerging social power of the indigenous (cholos) elites. This article thus identifies in the fraternities of El Alto the structural equivalent of the scholastic institution that Bourdieu associated with Gothic architecture, in order to reveal the formation of a specific habitus, shared among urban categories defined by similar residential locations, economic activities and forms of collective organization.
Refugees: That Time Everyone Said ’No’ And Bolivia Said ’Yes’
“The refugee has got to be checked because, unfortunately, among the refugees there are some spies, as has been found in other countries.” It could have been said today about the Syrian refugee crisis, but those words belong to President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1940.
Back then, many of those refugees — Jews fleeing Nazism in Europe — turned to South America instead. But one by one, those countries stopped issuing visas to fleeing Jews. It was no surprise: for years Nazi and fascist ideology had incubated deep in South America.
But away from all oceans and high up in the Andes, one small South American country kept its door open — a country that has had its share of economic problems and that even today is considered part of the developing world.
Bolivia.
#histoire #réfugiés #asile #migrations #Bolivie #réfugiés_juifs
cc @louca
Women farmers and Andean seeds - Women_farmers_and_Andean_seeds_308.pdf
▻http://www.bioversityinternational.org/uploads/tx_news/Women_farmers_and_Andean_seeds_308.pdf
#femmes #agriculture #semences
#Evo Morales offre un crucifix #communiste au #pape !
Evo Morales insulta al Papa con un regalo blasfemo
Apparemment le lien a été supprimé de infovaticana.com
Sur un journal italien, l’incontournable sondage :
Le pape devait-il refuser le cadeau blasphématoire ?
au moment où j’ai regardé, c’était 2/3 oui, 1/3 non
Le design vient d’un dessin de Luis Espinal, un curé tué par la dictature, auquel le pape a rendu hommage hier. C’est sûrement ce qu’a expliqué Evo au pape pour qu’il ne lui saute pas à la gorge.
▻https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Espinal_Camps
▻http://www.lavoz.com.ar/mundo/la-historia-del-crucifijo-que-evo-morales-le-regalo-al-papa-francisco?cx_l
El miércoles, en el Palacio de Gobierno de La Paz, Morales entregó varios presentes a Francisco, entre ellos un crucifijo formado con una hoz y un martillo que no pasó desapercibido.
Según difundió el diario El Mundo, la imagen es una reproducción de una cruz que hizo el sacerdote jesuita español Luis Espinal Camps, asesinado en 1980 por paramilitares por su compromiso con las luchas sociales en Bolivia, y a quien Francisco dedicó un homenaje cerca del lugar donde hallaron su cadáver.
Tras su llegada a Bolivia, en el trayecto que une al aeropuerto de El Alto con La Paz, Francisco hizo un alto en el camino en el lugar donde Espinal fue acribillado a balazos.
In Andes, Pope’s Ecological Line Faces Resistance - WSJ
▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-andes-popes-ecological-line-faces-resistance-1436312554
In a nod to the countries he is visiting—Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, all with strong indigenous traditions where the #Pachamama, or Mother Earth, is central to life—the pope said “we can no longer turn our backs on reality, on our brothers and sisters, on Mother Earth.”
This spine of the Andes illustrates the complexity of green politics the pope faces. It is rich in resources, from oil and coal to natural gas and copper that have helped governments here pull millions from poverty partly by attracting development by major corporations.
Le Pape est donc plus pachamamiste que les pachamamistes :)
#extractivisme #environnement #écologie #développement
à la radio j’ai pas tout écouté mais on l’entendait dire « ecologia integral »
#foutagedegueule
Un cadeau à sa sainteté l’Opium du Peuple…
Interview With #Alberto_Muenala, Director of the First-Ever #Kichwa Feature-Length #Film
▻http://africasacountry.com/interview-with-alberto-muenala-director-of-the-first-ever-kichwa-fe
Quechua is a family of languages that has united many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes for millennia. Since about the 15th century AD it was one.....
Imaggeo on Mondays : Paramo Soil | GeoLog
▻http://geolog.egu.eu/2014/09/15/imaggeo-on-mondays-paramo-soil
Pour les profs qui veumlent montrer à leurs élèves une magnifique image de sol et de couches géologiques...
What lies between 3000m and 4800m above sea level in the mountains of the Andes? A very special place dominated by an exceptional ecosystem: The Páramo. Picture lush grasslands with a unique population of flora and fauna, some of which is found nowhere else on Earth.
#pédologie #sol #géologie #image #géographie #géographie_physique
Pachamama
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/pachamama
Sun of the Andes of the Aymaras and the Quechuas, Rain from heaven, flight of condors, When I see you again my hair will be like the Antisana Taita Inti, Pachamama, I am your son, On my knees I...
Drone mapping the pyramids of Zuleta in Ecuador - : Archaeology News from Past Horizons
▻http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2013/drone-mapping-pyramids-zuleta-ecuador
Drone mapping the pyramids of Zuleta in Ecuador
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
By Mark Willis
The Pyramids of Zuleta are one of the hidden treasures of the Andes. Built around 1,000 years ago, by the native Caranqui people, these earthen mounds and platform pyramids dominate the landscape near Hacienda Zuleta in the mountains of northern Ecuador and 110 kilometres north of Quito.
Unlike much of our planet, high resolution aerial imagery and digital elevation models are unavailable for this part of the world. This is due to the fog that often blankets the area and the agrarian nature of the region. As a part of a team of archaeologists who visited the site in August 2013, we aimed to change that.
The Colony: Chile’s dark past uncovered
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/11/colony-chile-dark-past-uncovered-2013114105429774517.html
In 1961, a former #Nazi officer called Paul Schaefer fled Germany, along with hundreds of others, to found a sect in southern Chile. In an idyllic rural enclave framed by the Andes Mountains he created a virtual state within a state - one where horrifying events unfolded.
Initially with the ignorance of the government, and then with the complicity of the #Pinochet regime, children were separated from their parents at birth and raised in a Kinder House. Men and women were kept apart and often drugged, while Schaefer systematically sexually abused boys and, occasionally, girls.
But it was not only the residents of Colonia Dignidad, or the Dignity Colony, that endured such brutalities. The secluded Colony, set on a huge estate featuring forests, mountains and rivers and enclosed by electrified barbed wire fences and look-out posts manned by armed guards, was the perfect place for the interrogation, #torture and disposal of anyone Pinochet considered to be an enemy.
Kori Marca – Musica De Los Andes
▻http://chewbone.rickshide.com/2013/10/31/kori-marca-musica-de-los-andes
DISCO Artista Kori Marca Disco Musica De Los Andes CANCIONES Nº Titulo 01 Hatun runa 02 Puerta del sol 03 Chuclla 04 Cielito lindo 05 Humahuaqueño 06 Kullajita 07 Llaqui runa 08 Cóndor pasa 09 Bésame mucho 10 Piedrecita 11 Jacha uru 12 Popurrí de galoperas 13 Sumag sumag 14 Guantanamera 15 Takirikusun 16 La [...]
Andes
▻http://twitter.github.io/interactive/andes
What would happen if all geolocated tweets in San Francisco were converted to an elevation #map? The geolocation data is taken from the Billion Strokes’ dataset.
Peru peasant squads rally against U.S. firm’s $5 billion gold mine | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/28/us-peru-mining-politics-idUSBRE95R0XP20130628
Forty years ago, peasants in rural Peru banded together as “ronderos” - Spanish for “people who make the rounds” - to curb cattle rustling.
Today, squads of these ronderos are working toward a different aim - thwarting an American mining company’s planned $5 billion gold mining project that they contend would spoil lakes vital to the local population high in the Andes.
Operating according to Andean customs, the squads act as a de facto judicial system in places where public institutions are weak and policing is scant. They have become potent political players in remote provinces, weighing in on disputes over natural resources and causing headaches for the central government.