Tierras

The government dismantled the innovative collective land ownership project Fideicomiso de Tierras del Caño Martín Peña designed by the community (the case is in court).

Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: “Such is Life” 2009

El Fideicomiso de Tierras del Caño Martín Peña, orquestado por el Proyecto Enlace y el Grupo de 8 comunidades aledañas al cuerpo de agua, es un proyecto ejemplar que le sigue la pista no a las misiones de Hugo Chávez ni a la Reforma Urbana de Cuba, sino a iniciativas similares en los Estados Unidos que han logrado mantener un caudal de vivienda asequible para los pobres y las familias de escasos recursos.

Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: The Battle Over Public Lands 2009

His novels include Al filo del agua (The Eye of the Storm) in 1947 and Las Tierras Flacas in 1962.

Mexico this month - May 2009

In June, the governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, signed a law that dismantled an innovative community project of collective land ownership called Fideicomiso de Tierras del Caño Martín Peña.

Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: The Battle Over Public Lands 2009

His novels include Al filo del agua (The Eye of the Storm) in 1947 and Las Tierras Flacas in 1962.

Mexico this month - May 2009

But among all these the big sharks are undoubtedly the Benetton brothers - Carlo and Luciano, who control 1 million hectares of productive land under the Compania de Tierras Sud Argentino (CTSA), originally founded by the British as the Argentine Southern Land Co. in 1889 and now the most important agribusiness in the country.

Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010

If you'd like to go on a scopic drive through the Tierras Bajas, download this placemark from the Google Earth Community and then fire up Google Earth.

Self-erasing Bolivia 2006

If you'd like to go on a scopic drive through the Tierras Bajas, download this placemark from the Google Earth Community and then fire up Google Earth.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

There was a meeting of the "Comite de Tierras Urbanas", some administrative monstrosity who is trying to treat urban lands as if they were Agricultural AND Urban lands, in the spirit of the most demagogical of all Chavez programs, the artificially recreated version of "Los Sin Tierras", the landless.

Great moments in populism 2005

There was a meeting of the "Comite de Tierras Urbanas", some administrative monstrosity who is trying to treat urban lands as if they were Agricultural AND Urban lands, in the spirit of the most demagogical of all Chavez programs, the artificially recreated version of "Los Sin Tierras", the landless.

08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005 2005