Topic: privitazation

40 Days of Protest Against Glamis Gold's Guatemalan Mine End in Blood Shed
Daniel Vogt, Asociación Estoreña Para el Desarrollo Integral (AEPDI)
January 16, 2005 - January 10 marked the fortieth day that platform trailers carryied milling cylinders destined for Glamis Gold's Marlin mine through the western department of San Marcos Guatemala. Since December 3, the convoy of trailers and Glamis Gold mining activity have become objects of the growing opposition to metal mining in the largely indigenous populated highlands.

How Northern Donors Promote Corruption: Tales From the New Mozambique
Joseph Hanlon, Corner House
December 21, 2004 - In Mozambique, corruption was almost non-existent in the 1970s but grew to high levels during the 1990s. At least two forms of corruption --"state capture" (taking control of ministries, judiciary or regulatory agencies for personal or business interests) and "administrative corruption" (making unofficial payments to get officials to flout or to apply existing laws, rules and regulations)-- are now rampant in the country. Joseph Hanlon of the Open University, UK, who has written extensively on Mozambique for over 20 years, outlines how increasing intervention by international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, and bilateral aid donors in support of economic liberalisation is one of the primary causes of this growth in corruption. . . . Read More