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...former revolutionary has promised to make Nicaragua, a country that has experienced famine in recent years, the great breadbasket to supply all of Central America and his leftist allies further south. And he's calling on Nicaraguan farmers to rise to the challenge...
...ALBA appears to have found a captive audience. During a May 7 food-security summit in Managua involving the ALBA countries and Nicaragua's neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean, various Presidents spoke of the failure of a free-market globalization model promoted by the United States. Even more conservative leaders, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, appeared to side with the leftists leaders, with whom he is normally at odds, in criticizing the values and priorities of the United States. Arias criticized the United States's offer of $1 billion in food aid as insufficient compared...
...country," says Cirilo Otero, head of the Center for Research on Environmental Policy. With rich volcanic soils, some 443,000 hectares of fallow farm land waiting to be put back to work, and a long agricultural tradition of growing basic food products, Nicaragua "has the best conditions in Central America" to become a regional breadbasket, Otero says...
...Nicaragua's weakness has become its strength," adds Ivan Saballos, former director of the national export promotion agency, in reference to Nicaragua's dramatic increase in food exports to other Central American countries. "There will never be an industrial revolution here. That would be giving up our competitive advantage...
...Last summer, I had planned to work with the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, a non-ideological organization dedicated to the protection of human rights in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This region is known for its large number of rural and forest-dwelling communities as well as for its rich mineral deposits. The day before arriving in Chhattisgarh, I learned that Dr. Binayak Sen, the human rights activist and doctor I had been planning to work with, had been arrested on counts of terrorism. He is still in jail today, nearly one year later...