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A Puerto Rican recipe for food sovereignty

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Georges Félix tells why farmers in the Caribbean are turning down dependency and taking up the yoke. The foods we choose to consume and the strategies we use to produce …

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Be careful – running on empty

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Investments in care services are core to a human-centred recovery says Valeria Esquivel. The Covid pandemic is a health, social and economic global catastrophe, still unravelling in many parts of …

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El Salvador Has Adopted Bitcoin As Legal Tender

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: El Salvador this week officially became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Tim Padgett of member station WLRN in Miami …

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How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll

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After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he …

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Global South countries come together

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The Summit brings together Global South governments, political leaders, healthcare workers and vaccine manufacturers from more than twenty countries and follows criticism of the G7’s plan by U.N. aid chief …

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Slow Electric Vehicle Charging Is Making Drivers Switch Back to Gas

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What will it take to get people to buy electric vehicles? It is one of the biggest questions facing the United States these days as we hope to make some …

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Amid Brazil’s COVID chaos, socialist Marica forges different path

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Located just 60km from Rio de Janeiro, Marica has modelled itself into a very different city, paying residents a universal basic income, using its own digital currency and procuring its …

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Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up

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Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …

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Deforestation: the route away

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Without robust due diligence, financial institutions will continue to fund soy-driven deforestation. By Daniel Jones. Late last year, the UK government announced “world-leading new measures” to protect rainforests. Enshrined in …

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The IMF’s austerity drive comes for the Central Bank of Ecuador

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The IMF moves forward with its austerity and deregulation agenda for Ecuador. The next commitment for the South American country is so-called “Central Bank independence,” which is will preventing its …

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