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Indigenous peoples from 12 countries have called for a continental mobilization on June 21, 2011 in defense of life and the full exercise of their rights under the impact of mining, according to a statement released today in Lima.

About a hundred indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru and South Africa also agreed to provide a continental platform of struggle against mining policy, to which opposed to cause pollution in the territory they occupy. Read the rest of this entry »

Mexico got its worst ratings in the last 10 years in the Index of Perception of Corruption (CPI). Was rated at 3.1 on a scale where 10 is the highest. In the list of the 178 nations surveyed, Mexico jumped from 89, who won in 2009 at 98.

The CPI, conducted annually by Transparency International (TI), realizes that the best countries in transparency were Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore, which share first place with a score of 9.3, while the last place is Somalia with 1.1.

In Latin America, the best positioned country was Chile, with a rating of 7.2, the worst are Venezuela, with 2, followed by Haiti and Paraguay, with 2.2 in both cases.

Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Costa Rica had better ratings than Mexico in the study.

TI found that one of the greatest evils of Mexico is “still anchored to past practices.”

Alejandro Salas, head of the Americas department of Transparency International, said the case of Mexico is “very interesting” and similar to that of Brazil, as a member of powerful groups like the G20 or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Read the rest of this entry »