December 2011
2 posts
“You know the old story of how, when the missionaries came to Africa, we had the...”
– Desmond Tutu
“Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to...”
– the bio at the end of de Soto’s New York Times Magazine piece, ‘Who Owns This Mess?’
November 2011
1 post
WatchTrailer for “The Business of Gold” - a documentary by Gregory Lassalle
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
6 posts
“When the ordinary person is convinced that there is little he can do to...”
– Nicholas Wolterstorff, ‘Until Justice and Peace Embrace’
“The saints are responsible for the structure of the social world in which they...”
– Nicholas Wolterstorff, ‘Until Justice and Peace Embrace’
“Raising a single, pure, simple principle in politics can be powerful—but it is...”
– Michael Gerson (via Capital Commentary)
“We must begin working together taking public life seriously because justice...”
– James Skillen (via Capital Commentary)
“They burned villages, killed children and, just a winding road away from here in...”
– “Desperate Guatemalans Embrace an ‘Iron Fist’” by @damiencave (via New York Times)
August 2011
11 posts
“Some people are just too poor to do anything productive with credit. If you...”
– Madeleine Bunting, “Microfinance’s sober reckoning” (via Guardian)
WatchInterview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum (via CNN, HT Central American Politics blog)
“Corruption, mismanagement and diversion of funds or supplies are risks all aid...”
– “Oxfam suspends Haiti staff on misconduct allegations” by Katy Nguyen (via Reuters AlertNet)
“The “Just” in Just War is not about justification, but justice-it is not there...”
– “Hiroshima’s lessons: What the Air Force should remember about Just War and nuclear weapons” By Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson (via Washington Post)
“This use of religion in politics is a source of cynicism. It should raise alarms...”
– “Two parties pray to the same God, but different economists” by Michael Gerson (via Washington Post)
“Leftist former army officer Ollanta Humala has been sworn in as president of...”
– “Peru’s new president: ‘poor are my priority’” (via Al Jazeera English)
“As the evangelical movement has grown and spread around the globe over the past...”
– From the preface to “Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders” (via Pew Forum)
July 2011
38 posts
WatchSELF-SABOTAGE Teaser from Scott Brignac on Vimeo.
“Latin America and the Caribbean boast incredible and highly coveted natural...”
– Guy Edwards, “Climate, energy to dominate US-Latin American relations” (via Reuters AlertNet)
“Slow in its implementation and hampered by little new money, GHI is targeting...”
– Lomi Kriel, “GHI targets chronic malnutrition in Guatemala” (via GlobalPost)
“Members of the U.S. Congress reported Wednesday they were continuing to...”
– “Congress Continues Debate Over Whether Or Not Nation Should Be Economically Ruined” (via The Onion)
“In recent months, Ortega’s normally abrasive political rhetoric has given way to...”
– Tim Rogers, “Ortega’s rhetoric worries Nicaragua bishop” (via Miami Herald)
“The 50-storey skyscrapers of Panama City jut out of the jungle like nowhere else...”
– “A Singapore for Central America?” (via Economist)
“Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. Our...”
– “Paul Farmer Examines Haiti ‘After The Earthquake’” (via NPR’s Fresh Air)
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via ThinkExist.com)
“What makes the political impasse over immigration particularly frustrating is...”
– Charles Kenny, “How to Be a Patriot: Hire an Illegal Immigrant” (Bloomberg Businessweek)
“Most Christians desire nonviolence, yes; but they are not talking about a...”
– Walter Wink, “Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way” (Fortress Press)
“I’m sure if Congress called for a hearing on the threat of radical...”
– “Prioritizing the threat of Hezbollah in Latin America” (via Bloggings by boz)
“Activists in Cuba disagreed on the exact number of detentions and whether they...”
– “Human rights group says abuses in Cuba are growing” (via Miami Herald)
Chile proposes $4bn education fund as students... →