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section:
Editorial: Panama's endangered institutions
Sirias,
Translating a people
Leis,
The National Education Council
Bernal,
Why a constituent assembly?
Mendez,
Children of ink
Inter-American Human Rights Commission,
Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela
Deprez,
Climate migration in Latin America
Amnesty International, Indigenous peoples
struggle to survive in Colombia
Committee
to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the press: a worldwide survey
Reporters
Without Borders, RCTVI yields but cadenas still a problem in Venezuela
Weisbrot,
Independent Latin America forms its own organization
Alexander,
Chile
Kehoe,
Hugo Chávez: this year's challenges and opportunities
Nasser,
US-Iran power struggle over Iraq
Avnery,
Dubious in Dubai
Visotzky,
Inter-religious dialogue between Jews and Muslims
Haperskij,
Cuba and Russia
Jackson,
Orlando Zapata and the Castro brothers
Letters
to the editor
On
this International Women's Day
One of
Panama's much-maligned unionized teachers.
On this
International Women's Day in Panama, let us look at aggregates and
trends rather than tokens and anecdotes.
We are one of the rare countries with a male majority, not because
women in Panama
don't have a longer life expectancy than men like in most places, but
because a lot of Panamanian women marry foreigners and emigrate. (And
yes,
consider
all the creepy foreign men who come down here figuring to hook up with
some woman who has a green card in her eyes.)
An
indigenous public administration major's graduation photo.
The overwhelming
majority of law students are female, but we have an all-male Supreme
Court --- and a pretty disreputable one, it should be added. Across
most the professions and when it comes to educational levels in
general, the women and girls of this country are far better educated
than the men and boys. Nevertheless, men hold most of the positions of
economic and political power and on average men are paid more than
women.
Yes, we had a female president --- an obnoxious and incompetent crook
who got to where she did on the strength of the reputation of the man
with whom she began a relationship when she was 15 and he was 53. She
granted political fiefdoms to some women in her entourage. It was all a
disaster. But it was that woman's disaster, which did not and does not
reflect upon, and should be taken as a reflection of, the abilities of
Panamanian women in general.
Here in this country, a steep rise in the power and social status of
women in general would not be a mere matter of "women's liberation." It
would be the central pillar of Panama's liberation.
Our
hope for the future.
Also in this
section:
Editorial: Panama's endangered institutions
Sirias,
Translating a people
Leis,
The National Education Council
Bernal,
Why a constituent assembly?
Mendez,
Children of ink
Inter-American Human Rights Commission,
Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela
Deprez,
Climate migration in Latin America
Amnesty International, Indigenous peoples
struggle to survive in Colombia
Committee
to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the press: a worldwide survey
Reporters
Without Borders, RCTVI yields but cadenas still a problem in Venezuela
Weisbrot,
Independent Latin America forms its own organization
Alexander,
Chile
Kehoe,
Hugo Chávez: this year's challenges and opportunities
Nasser,
US-Iran power struggle over Iraq
Avnery,
Dubious in Dubai
Visotzky,
Inter-religious dialogue between Jews and Muslims
Haperskij,
Cuba and Russia
Jackson,
Orlando Zapata and the Castro brothers
Letters
to the editor
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