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From El Salvador to Honduras, why authoritarians gain from USAID cuts

Source: Christian Science Monitor On the face of it, the USAID money that Kara Wilson García was promised last year for Project RED, her child care-focused nongovernmental organization in El...

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In Mexico, budget cuts dim hopes for a science funding revival

In Mexico, budget cuts dim hopes for a science funding revival Source; Science Magazine Last year, many scientists in Mexico celebrated when Claudia Sheinbaum, the nation’s newly elected president,...

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GM corn and glyphosate science: Documents from Mexico-US trade dispute

Source: USRTK In February 2023, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a presidential decree restricting the use of genetically modified (GM) corn in tortillas and other minimally...

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Gestión territorial indígena requiere mayor participación

Fuente: SciDev [BUENOS AIRES] La cogestión territorial entre el Estado y las comunidades indígenas puede ser un aporte significativo para mejorar la administración de áreas protegidas, especialmente...

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Davila, The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba (2024)

The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba Agustín Lage Dávila · New York University Press, 2024    Examines Cuba’s approach to scientific research, and distinguishes it from...

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Sheinbaum espera respuesta de Trump sobre diálogo; anuncia "Plan B"

Fuente: Diario de Mexico La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, pidió este viernes esperar la respuesta del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, a la propuesta de establecer una...

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La ONU sitúa a España en el puesto 17 en administración digital, aunque la percepción de los usuarios es diferente

Fuente: El Pais El último informe E-Government Survey de la ONU, que evalúa el desarrollo y la eficacia de los servicios públicos digitales a nivel global, ha situado a España en el puesto 17 de los...

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Gangs have taken over Haiti. Schools must educate anyway.

Source: Christian Science Monitor Route de Frères is a major artery connecting the heart of Port-au-Prince with nearby suburbs, typically flanked by open-air markets, crowds of students making their...

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Juramenta Jennifer González entre protestas y manifestaciones

Fuente: CLARIDAD En una ceremonia donde no hubo el menor disimulo por separar Iglesia y Estado, la gobernadora electa Jenniffer González Colón, juramentó este dos de enero como la próxima gobernadora...

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The Math Behind Why Mexico’s Cartel War is a Never-Ending Nightmare

Source: ZME Science An unsettling silence hangs over the historic center of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa. Here, in the heartland of one of the world’s most powerful drug cartels, a violent feud...

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Matchmaking scientists look to Honduras for new coral parents to help Florida’s reefs survive climate change

Source: Miami In a groundbreaking effort to combat the devastating impacts of rising ocean temperatures on Florida’s coral reefs, scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine,...

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Mexico’s new president just gave science a big promotion

Source: Science MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s main science funding agency is getting a hefty promotion. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo last week announced the nation’s science council will be...

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Scientists in Latin America struggle to get key chemicals and other reagents for experiments. A group has begun to help

Source: Science For his experiments monitoring heavy metal pollution in aquatic environments, Daniel Guerra Giraldez relies on large amounts of a common lab enzyme that is sensitive to mercury in...

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Mexico’s new president just gave science a big promotion

Source: Science MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s main science funding agency is getting a hefty promotion. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo last week announced the nation’s science council will be...

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Trump 2.0: are his cabinet picks more extreme than in 2016?

Source: The Guardian Donald Trump has wasted no time in assembling his incoming cabinet, issuing a flurry of nominations this week that – in some cases – have further heightened fears that his return...

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Maggie Haberman Names Shock Donald Trump Cabinet Pick That May Be ‘A Bridge Too Far’

  Source: Yahoo News The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman on Thursday told CNN’s Jake Tapper that President-elect Donald Trump is “looking to essentially shock and overwhelm the system” with his...

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Trump’s latest controversial Cabinet pick could have a huge impact on Americans’ health and lives

Source: CNN Each of Donald Trump’s most provocative Cabinet picks has been a calculated punch in the mouth to experts, elites and bureaucrats in Washington’s government agencies. But his decision to...

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Hitting government with a 'blowtorch': Trump's Cabinet picks are the first step in carrying out his agenda

  Source: NBC News WASHINGTON — As he waged his winning campaign, Donald Trump described the Justice Department as a hotbed of partisan prosecutors who had “weaponized” law enforcement and the...

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Tracking Trump’s Cabinet picks

  Source: POLITICO President-elect Donald Trump is rolling out his picks for who he plans to nominate to fill his Cabinet, the members of which will help implement his priorities soon after the...

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La red X, de Elon Musk, es una plataforma para el “abuso político”

  Fuente: El Pais   El ascenso del magnate Elon Musk al Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE en sus siglas en inglés) de EE UU tras la victoria de Donald Trump no es casualidad ni solo fruto...

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Do scientists make good presidents? How five national leaders performed

Source: Nature This week, Mexico elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo — a politician with a background in physics and environmental engineering. Despite her scientific...

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México: Triunfo de Sheinbaum, esperanza de consenso en la ciencia

Fuente: SciDev   [CIUDAD DE MÉXICO] Con el triunfo de Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo como la primera mujer que gobernará México crecen las expectativas entre la comunidad científica respecto al futuro del...

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Pedro Albizu Campos Digital Resource Collection

 Pedro Albizu Campos Digital Resource Collection. The digital resource collection includes images of all of Pedro Albizu Campos’ archival documents from his early years at the University of Vermont,...

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Las revoluciones políticas y la ciencia en México

Fuente: Foro Consultivo   El libro Las revoluciones políticas y la ciencia en México, de Juan José Saldaña González realiza una indagación histórica sobre uno de los rasgos estructurales de la...

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Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America

  Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America María del Pilar Blanco, Joanna Page University of Florida Press, 2020   Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged...

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