By Fabiola Ortiz SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (IDN) – It has been twenty two years since Costa Rica embarked on its national program of payment for environmental services (PES), the first in the world to start a nationwide scheme for compensating landowners for keeping the forests standing for people and the planet. Now that the […]
Helping Rural Latin America Beat the Economic Downturn
By Kwame Buist ROME (IDN) – Over the last three decades, the countries of Latin American and the Caribbean have experienced a profound transformation which has extended to rural areas. All countries in the region, except for Haiti, are now considered middle-income. This economic and rural transformation has resulted in many benefits, especially between 2004 […]
Brazil Sets Up an Innovative Model to Reverse Land Degradation
Viewpoint by Prof. Dr. Valdemar Rodrigues The writer is Director of Sustainable Rural Development of the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, National Director of the UNDP / GEF / MMA Program and National Director of the FAO / GEF / MMA Program. Prior to joining the Ministry, he was he was a Professor at the […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 9
By Roberto Massari* This is the ninth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FADE-OUT … Scene 9[ Vallegrande, October 9, 2017] The scene is composite, polychrome and multi-sound. On the large clearing for what in the past was to become the Vallegrande […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 7
By Roberto Massari* This is the seventh of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – HERESY STORY: Scene 7 [from Moscow to Havana, 1963-65] The starting scene for describing this intellectual revival of Guevara’s Marxism is set in Moscow and he described it himself in one […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 6
By Roberto Massari* This is the sixth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – With regard to the “Marxism” of Marx there is not much more, because the rest of the article launches itself into a very imaginative analysis of the progress of the Cuban revolution […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 5
By Roberto Massari* This is the fifth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Second half: ORTHODOXY STORY: Scene 6 [from Havana to Moscow, 1959-63] As is well known, the revolutionary government assigned commander Guevara with tasks of great importance, but all within the economic sphere as […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 4
By Roberto Massari* This is the fourth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2 and 3. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Everything that happened between Guatemala and Mexico is now a known story, recounted in the main biographies; but in the late 1960s Hilda was the only direct and reliable source of Che’s Marxist training, […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 3
By Roberto Massari* This is the third of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1 and 2. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FLASHBACK: Scene 3 [Lima, 1952] To answer, it is necessary to step back in time to the first encounter with Marxism that the young Ernesto had personally experienced in Lima, Peru, during a period of […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 2
By Roberto Massari* This is the second of a nine-part series. Click here for Part 1. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – Scene 2 [Dar es Salaam, 1965] Holed up in the house of the Cuban ambassador in Tanzania (Pablo Rivalta, 1925-2005), recovering from the defeat of the military expedition in Congo (“la historia de un fracaso”, […]