Articles by Marcela Valente

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Argentina: Fair Trade Going Strong amid Global Crisis
Marcela Valente – Inter Press Service-IPS, 6 Feb 2012

With a steady growth in production and exports, fair trade in Argentina is proving that socially and environmentally sustainable practices can be much more than a refuge from external crises.

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Economy: Argentina Shows World How to Beat the Crisis
Marcela Valente – TerraViva Europe, 26 Dec 2011

What is happening in the European Union and the United States today happened a decade ago in Argentina, when it was a hotbed of protest and the streets of major cities were seething with people telling their leaders they had had enough. And then a new story began to be written.

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Curbing Foreign Ownership of Farmland
Marcela Valente – Al Jazeera, 23 May 2011

As international food prices continue to soar, land purchases by foreign investors face ban in much of Latin America. The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.

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Child Victims Have ‘Leading Role’ in Creating a Nonviolent Society
Marcela Valente – Inter Press Service-IPS, 9 May 2011

Interview with a U.N. Expert on Violence against Children. Appointed to the gigantic task of building international understanding of violence against children and adolescents, 58-year-old Portuguese lawyer Marta Santos Pais is based in New York and works with a small staff of only seven people.

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(Portuguese) Colombia: Uma Oportunidade Para a Paz
Marcela Valente em Buenos Aires, Argentina – Brasil de Fato, 28 Feb 2011

Participantes do fórum Fazendo a Paz na Colômbia consideram o momento propício para avançar em uma saída política ao conflito armado de mais de 50 anos

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South America: Closer to a Palestinian State
Marcela Valente – Inter Press Service, 10 Jan 2011

After Brazil announced in early December that it recognised a Palestinian state, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador followed suit, and Paraguay and Uruguay said they would do the same in early 2011. Chile and Peru are also expected to reach a similar decision. Before this month, Venezuela was the only country in South America to have done so.

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Lessons from Honduras
Marcela Valente – IPS News, 11 Oct 2010

With the 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras still a fresh memory, the presidents of the Unasur bloc gathered as quickly as they could to vigorously condemn Thursday’s [30 Sep 2010] attempted coup in Ecuador and warn that they would not tolerate any such assault on democracy in the region.

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Women Make Their Mark on South American Politics
Marcela Valente – IPS-InterPress Service, 20 Sep 2010

If Brazilian voters elect a woman president next month, what might have appeared to be isolated developments in Chile and Argentina would start to look more like a trend in the southern countries of South America.

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