Roger Peltzer
Colombia has elected a new parliament and presidential elections are due in a few weeks‘ time. Ricardo Cardenas takes stock of the achievements and mistakes of left-wing President Petro. And he analyzes what chances the left-wing candidate Cepeda has in
WeiterlesenThe BMZ budget for 2025 has been cut by one billion euros. You don’t need to be clairvoyant to predict that funding will stagnate or fall further in the coming years. However, fewer funds should not go hand in hand
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The destruction of tropical forests in Brazil has had its day as an argument against agriculture and agricultural trade. Agricultural engineer Ingo Melchers, who worked in Brazil for a long time, assesses the EU-Mercosur Agreement from an agronomic and Brazilian
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A development bank like the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft naturally has to face up to public criticism. However, one should expect fair and balanced reporting from serious investigative journalists. However, the article by Gesa Steeger entitled „Deforestation – DEG promotes environmental destruction“ fails to do just that. In the following article, Roger Peltzer shows how, on the basis of a single possible misconduct by a company financed by DEG, the steep thesis is put forward, practically without evidence, that DEG predominantly finances projects that are questionable in terms of development policy.
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The powerful political castes who were voted out of office are using all their remaining influence to make the handover to the newly elected President Bernardo Arévalo as rocky as possible. B. Arévalo describes this as a quietly approaching coup
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Following the recent outbreaks of violence in Haiti, the UN is considering sending a police force to Haiti under Kenyan leadership. But doesn’t the history of Haiti so far show the failure of all UN efforts? Heiner Rosendahl, who worked
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While Europe is moving to the right, left-wing governments are coming to power in Latin America, most recently Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala. What does this mean for Germany’s foreign and development policy? Pedro Morazán analyzes the latest developments in Latin
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The CIR was founded 40 years ago, at that time also to support the Sandinista revolution. The disappointment at the development of Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega and his unspeakable wife into a veritable dictatorship was and is all the greater.
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