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Mexico: more than 5,000 clinical experiments using human subjects

by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 19 February 2012

1983 – 2011: a total of 5,025 clinical tests – studies using human subjects – have been conducted in Mexico. While more than half the studies have been carried out at centres of excellence and public hospitals, the US government too has performed biomedical studies in Mexico using its health (...)

“No left turn”

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

17 January 2006

When the Aymaran indegenous leader Tupac Katari was executed in 1781 by Spanish colonial rulers, he cried out that he would return incarnated in millions. The overwhelming victory of Evo Morales, being himself also an Aymaran aborigine, seems that Katari was right. His electoral victory was (...)

“A Condor soars over the Andes”

by Carlos Malamud

17 January 2006

The categorical victory of Evo Morales has expended rivers of ink. The headlines of the world press highlight the indigenous origin of the new president and his ties with Castro and Chavez. All these ideas show the fears over Latin America due to the combination of indigenousness and populism. (...)

The Libertarian’s Think Tank

The Cato Institute or Anarchism seen through the Multinationals’ Eyes

10 February 2005

A hybrid product of the 1968 hippy revolution and Friedrich von Hayek’s reactionary theories, the Cato Institute went from the promotion of sexual liberty and the liberalization of marihuana to defend the multinationals’ interests against ecologists. It focused mainly in the destruction of the (...)