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D3E CLAES provides independent analysis made by an international team of various disciplines about critical issues concerning democracy and politics for sustainable development in Latin America.
 
Mexico: playing with democracy
  The governor of the federal district of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was forced out of office. The latest news is being interpreted as a political move to avoid the charismatic leader of PRD, who is leading the opinion polls, to become candidate for the next presidential elections. Analysis by Patricia Peralta Gainza. (Spanish) MORE
Bolivia: the political tensions remain
 

While president Carlos Mesa threatened to resign twice within one week at the beginning of March, the social movements, businessmen and political parties confront a profound institutional crisis. Analyses about the president's position (read...), the impact about the first announce of abjuration (read...), and the agreement of the National Pact (read...), give insights to the current political instability in Bolivia. (Spanish) MORE

Brazil: Lula - so close to Davos and so far from Porto Alegre
 

President Lula's participation in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre and afterwards in the World Economic Forum in Davos caused lots of critic. Analysis by Eduardo Gudynas (Spanish) MORE

Opinion: the war and the phobia to knowledge
  The irreparable damage to the historical and archaeological patrimony is one of the many negative outcomes from the last invasion of the United States to Iraq, believes Carlos Córdoba. (Spanish) MORE
 
 

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D3E CLAES carried out four workshops in the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, in topics such as global economy, the impacts of globalization to nation-states and processes of integration in the Latin American hemisphere. More than 150 thousand people participated in the forum. MORE

Furthermore, the team of D3E CLAES visited some of the most important events and wrote daily reports about workshops, seminars, and round table discussions. MORE

Chávez, the new "libertarian". The presence of the Venezuelan president in the WSF caught a lot of attention by the Forum's participants. By Virginia Matos MORE

Lula in Porto Alegre. the Brazilian president generated a lot of controversy with the launce of the worldwide campaign against poverty. By Virgina Matos MORE