‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply - Country suffering its worst #drought in 74 years, with government even mixing saltwater into drinking supply.
A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in #Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years.
Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been declared in #Montevideo and the authorities have added salty water to the public drinking water supplies, prompting widespread protests.
Critics claim that the government is prioritising water for transnationals and agribusiness at the expense of its own citizens. Daniel Pena, a researcher at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, said: “Only a tiny proportion of water in Uruguay is used for human consumption. The majority is used for big agro industries, such as soya, rice and wood pulping. Now we have #Google planning to use enormous quantities of water.”
With tensions surrounding Guatemala’s June 25 election heightening, President Alejandro Giammattei has taken the unusual step of publishing an open letter saying he has no intention of staying in power beyond his term.
One of Indigenous Peru's greatest books was just translated into Quechua!
José Carlos Mariátegui's Indigenist masterpiece "Seven Interpetive Essays on Peruvian Reality" (1928) has just translated into #quechua after 96 years since publication. Mariátegui's book has been a guidebook for #indigenous peoples in Peru and #latinamerica since the 1920s. This is amazing news for #nativeamerican peoples across the continent.
The struggle to certify the results of Guatemala's first-round presidential elections has suffered another setback, after the chief justice of the Supreme Court issued an order blocking the certification.
If you liked Biden's foreign policy so far, you're gonna love it now that he's nominated serial human rights criminal Elliot Abrams for the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Abrams's criminal record is so vile that even CNN points out his role in leading the Iran-Contra operation and supporting US-backed genocidal massacres in Latin America
At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
...regimes are increasing in number and in surveillance capabilities. Just take a look at the freedom of the press index as a proxy or the use of #Thiel's military app #Palantir to spy on reporters critical of the government, e.g. in #LatinAmerica or #SouthEastAsia.
And you needn't even go that far. Just take the #US: right-wing ultra-#FreeSpeech advocate #Musk...
"Jimmy Carter tried like no president ever had to put human rights at the center of American foreign policy. It was a turnabout dictators and dissidents alike found hard to believe..
We are business in #Singapore dedicated to promote South American culture.
We do that mostly through our #foods and #beverages, for which we have even setup a supply chain of key #ingredients since 2015, but we would participate of any cultural expression such as music, dance, poetry, narrative, painting, cinema, theater, etc.
We also love to experiment with collaborations by chefs and artists from both sides of the Pacific.
We are strong believers in freedom, integration, open access, inclusiveness and collaboration as the key ingredients of social progress, so we hope to make of the Fediverse our social media home. 😊
I’m a #CentralAmerican#Latina born and raised in Honduras 🇭🇳 32 years old, currently living in Lexington, Kentucky, I live with my husband and my cat 🐈 #catlover
Guatemala president says he won't stay in power as courts continue to hold up election results (apnews.com)
With tensions surrounding Guatemala’s June 25 election heightening, President Alejandro Giammattei has taken the unusual step of publishing an open letter saying he has no intention of staying in power beyond his term.
The struggle to certify the results of Guatemala's presidential vote suffers another setback (apnews.com)
The struggle to certify the results of Guatemala's first-round presidential elections has suffered another setback, after the chief justice of the Supreme Court issued an order blocking the certification.