“La paradoja de la plata”
Monday, August 14 2023
Fuente: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Nuestro país ingresó al comercio mundial de la mano de la plata y el colonialismo español. Ello ocurrió en el siglo XVI, pero sus consecuencias siguen vivas....
Tag - Economía Política
Estefane et. al., Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics (2022)
Sunday, July 23 2023
Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics Andrés Estefane, Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel Springer Intl., 2022 This book brings together recent research on the...
Tesla will hike prices on self-driving mode, again
Saturday, January 8 2022
Source: Engadget Tesla's "full self-driving" (FSD) feature has had something of a rocky history, to put things generously. It's been implicated in multiple crashes, seemingly persistent...
Hernando Fernandez: Latin America is Adopting Blockchain
Thursday, January 6 2022
Source: Newswires MIAMI,, FL, USA, December 30, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Since 2019, Hernando Fernandez says cryptocurrencies have gained traction in Latin America. Previously shunned by investors...
La encrucijada: en riesgo nuestra infraestructura natural
Tuesday, December 28 2021
Fuente: Claridad Es evidente y alarmante la amenaza que se cierne sobre nuestros recursos naturales y bienes públicos. Existe una clara intención de frenar los esfuerzos diversos que en las...
Mientras LUMA pide aumento en la luz, la AEE recuerda que incrementó el combustible
Tuesday, December 28 2021
Fuente: NOTICEL A solo horas de que LUMA Energy le solicitara al Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico (NEPR) un aumento de 18.4% en la factura para el primer trimestre del año próximo, el director...
AEE detalla costos por generación y producción de energía ante solicitud de aumento en la factura de luz
Tuesday, December 28 2021
Fuente: El Nuevo Dia El director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE), Josué Colón Ortiz, detalló los aumentos en los costos por generación y producción de energía durante los...
Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina
Tuesday, February 18 2020
Author: Amalia LeguizamónIn 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and...
¿Cuándo murió el principio de mérito en Puerto Rico?
Thursday, November 14 2019
Fuente: El VoceroEn días recientes hemos leído y escuchado mucha indignación por el tema de los contemporáneamente denominados “hijos talentosos”. Ya, el origen y consecuencias de esa deficiencia...
Reseña del libro 'cocolo' de Emilio Pantojas Garcia: Crónicas del Colapso
Thursday, October 31 2019
por Rodrigo FernósEsta es una reseña difícil de escribir, en parte porque el libro aptamente captura muchas de las barbaridades que se dan en Puerto Rico, tal como la herencia de las alcaldías, entre...
Puerto Rico se cosió la boca
Monday, September 16 2019
Fuente: Noticel (Sandra Rodriguez Cotto)Puerto Rico se acaba de coser la boca y en un futuro cercano va a morir de hambre. De esto no nos puede caber la menor duda. Con la bendición del gobierno...
Economía o ambiente, la encrucijada minera de Sudamérica
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev.net La actividad minera en la región genera grandes debates porque, según sus detractores, destruye la biodiversidad, contamina el aire y el agua, y genera consecuencias sociales,...
In Brazil, ‘useful idiots’ protest cuts to research and education
Wednesday, May 29 2019
Source: Science MagazineThousands of scientists, educators, and students swamped the streets of Brazil this week to protest cuts in education and research funding. Marches occurred this past Wednesday...
Thousands of scientists in Argentina strike to protest budget cuts
Wednesday, May 8 2019
Source: Science MagazineScientists from labs across Argentina stayed home today, joining a nationwide strike against the government’s latest round of austerity measures. One of their key rallying...
La cultura del carabajo en Puerto Rico
Monday, April 1 2019
por Rodrigo FernosHace casi dos décadas cuando regrese a Puerto Rico de Estados Unidos, un amigo me relato el cuento del carabajo puertorriqueño. Casi no pude creer el mensaje, pero resulto ser muy...
US jury considers glyphosate “a substantial factor” in causing human cancer
Sunday, March 24 2019
Source: MercopressA US jury has found that one of the world's most widely-used weed-killers was a “substantial factor” in causing a man's cancer. Pharmaceutical group Bayer had strongly rejected...
Google Hit With $1.7 Billion in Europe for Abusing Advertising Dominance
Wednesday, March 20 2019
Source: GizmodoEuropean regulators fined Google €1.49 billion (or $1.7 billion) on Wednesday for abusing its dominance in the online advertising business by imposing restrictive and anticompetitive...
Thoughts on Anger over Amazon buying Eero
Tuesday, February 12 2019
Source: iMoreAmazon, as I'm sure you know, is the biggest online retailer in the world, run by the richest person in the world. It's also the leader in cloud computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS),...
Latinoamérica lidera pérdida de humedales a nivel global
Saturday, February 2 2019
Fuente: SciDev [SANTIAGO] La región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) es la que ha experimentado la mayor reducción de sus humedales naturales a nivel mundial entre 1970 y 2015, con un declive de...
Johnson & Johnson Fails to Have $4.69 Billion Cancer Verdict Thrown Out
Thursday, December 20 2018
Source: GizmodoJohnson & Johnson, which lost a lawsuit brought by 22 women and their families who claimed their ovarian mesotheliomas were caused by talc products contaminated with the carcinogen...
Abbot Laboratories will pay US$ 25 million for bribing doctors to prescribe TriCor
Saturday, October 27 2018
Source: MercoPressThe U.S. Justice Department announced the settlement, which resolves claims first raised in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in federal court in Philadelphia in 2009Abbot Laboratiories...
Nudging Big Pharma’s Tropical Neglect
Saturday, October 20 2018
Source: Science for BrazilWhen will profits-hungry drug companies finally widen their attention from treating complex lifestyle-related diseases affecting citizens in wealthy countries, to the...
Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops
Tuesday, October 9 2018
Source: Science MagazineMEXICO CITY—In early June, evolutionary developmental biologist Elena Álvarez-Buylla received an out-of-the-blue phone call from the campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador,...
My Grudge Against Iomega and the Click of Death
Thursday, September 27 2018
Source: GizmodoThere are companies I dislike, companies I disagree with, even companies that have occasionally angered me with disappointing gadgets that underdeliver. But to date there’s only one...
How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich
Wednesday, September 19 2018
Source: GQThe party known as Cocktails and Compliance—so called for mixing alcohol with tax advice—was thrown on a Friday evening in May, in a warehouse turned art gallery in Old San Juan. The host...
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