Articles by Gabriel Elizondo
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BRICS Summit: A Perspective from Brazil
Gabriel Elizondo – Al Jazeera,
2 Apr 2012
Stuenkel specialises in Brazil’s relations with India, but also more broadly focuses his research on the BRICS. He is currently a professor of international relations at Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He also runs a blog called Post Western World, which looks at how emerging powers are changing the world. Below is part of my interview with Stuenkel, where he sheds light on Brazil and the prospects and challenges the BRICS face. He also pushes back against those who say that the BRICS countries have failed.
→ read full articleDam It: Brazil’s Belo Monte Stirs Controversy
Gabriel Elizondo – Al Jazeera,
23 Jan 2012
About 24,000 people will be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for the world’s third biggest dam. Five thousand men are working in two shifts, from 7 am until 5 pm and from 5 pm until 2:30 am, six days a week. The construction area is gigantic, to form two reservoirs 500 square kilometres in size. A ‘small city’ is being built inside the work area to accommodate some of the 20,000 labourers and engineers who will be working here by November 2013. When completed, Belo Monte will be the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam and the latest cost estimate is $14bn.
→ read full articleAn Insider’s Critique of What Went Wrong in Haiti
Gabriel Elizondo – Al Jazeera,
17 Jan 2011
You will be hard pressed to find a man anywhere more passionate about the plight of the Haitian people than Ricardo Seitenfus. The Brazilian professor of international affairs first went to Haiti in 1993 and the warmth of the Haitian people – combined with their immense struggle – has been drawing Seitenfus back to the island nation like a magnet ever since his first trip. Seitenfus has authored a book about the country, as well over a dozen other publications about international affairs. Seitenfus feels so connected to Haiti, he often doesn’t even realise he refers to the country as “we,” not as “they” or “it.”
→ read full articleBrazil’s Groundbreaking Step to Halt Corruption
Gabriel Elizondo – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Campaigners said few politicians wanted to sponsor an anti-corruption bill in congress, so the organisation took advantage of a little-known, and almost never implemented, ‘popular initiative’ clause in congress that says with signatures from one per cent of the Brazilian population a bill can be taken up in congress. Only four bills in Brazilian history have reached congress in such a manner. In September of last year, after 18 months of signature collecting, the law organisers forwarded to congress 1.7 million signatures. Soon after, another two million people registered their support for the bill online. On June 4, 2010 President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed the bill and three days later it became the law of the land.
→ read full articleUS Bars Acclaimed Colombian Journalist
Gabriel Elizondo – Al Jazeera,
19 Jul 2010
Hollman Morris is a Colombian journalist who has received dozens of international awards for his work uncovering atrocities and human rights abuses in the decade’s-long armed conflict in his country…. Because after Morris was accepted to Harvard, at first glance, one would think the US State Department would have opened the door and patted him on the shoulder with congratulations. Instead, the State Department slammed the door and slapped him across the face and branded him with the terrorist label.
→ read full articleDifferences on Brazil’s Iran Engagement
Gabriel Elizondo - Al Jazeera,
17 May 2010
“In short, despite the crying of the traditional opponents, I see Brazil’s engagement with Iran as a win-win situation for Brazilian diplomacy. But it is evident that the ‘old boys’ are inconvenienced by this new kid who has arrived on the block and who is not asking for permission to use the bathroom.”
→ read full articleWORLD BANK LOAN ?THREATENS AMAZON?
Gabriel Elizondo in Maraba, Brazil,
16 Oct 2008
The expansion of Brazil’s cattle industry is widely regarded as being one of the greatest single threats to the Amazon rainforest. Now, environmentalists say deforestation in the fragile region, and consequently climate change, are set to worsen following the World Bank’s sponsorship of a major loan to Brazil’s second-largest beef processors. The criticism comes after […]
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