Stories written by Diana Cariboni
Diana Cariboni has been the IPS associate editor in chief since June 2010 and the regional editor of IPS Latin America since March 2003. Working together with the editor in chief, she is responsible for the content of the IPS World Service and overall journalistic production, particularly in Spanish. Since March 2007, she has served as editor of the award-winning Tierramérica, a weekly service about the environment and sustainable development published by more than 20 Latin American newspapers. She led the teams that reported from the Copenhagen and Cancun climate change negotiations in 2009 and 2010. Diana has trained dozens of journalists throughout Latin America and taught journalism in the ORT University school of media and communications, Uruguay. In 2007, she was co-awarded the AVINA scholarship for investigative journalism in sustainable development for the project The Unusual Wealth of the Chocó. She began her career as a journalist in 1992 working for various media outlets in Uruguay, such as El Observador and El País newspapers, and the Sarandí and Setiembre FM radio stations. Cariboni specialises in technology, science and public health. She also worked as a writer on international politics, economy and the environment for Third World Institute publications, a subsidiary of the Third World Network. She is married and the mother of five children. She was born in Argentina in 1962 and has lived in Uruguay since 1984. She joined IPS in 2001.

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Mexico Reinvents Forced Disappearance

By Diana Cariboni
When people are forcibly disappeared in Mexico, it does not necessarily mean that the victims are immediately killed. In this country of entrenched violence, forced disappearance is also a method used to feed the markets for sexual exploitation and slave labour.

Maduro, Capriles and Wayward Democracy

By Diana Cariboni
When the left was in opposition in Latin America, it never tired of repeating that true democracy was not limited to electing governments at the ballot box. Democracy was also needed in the distribution of rights and riches.
Hydrologist Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vásquez, director of the World Bank Sustainable Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean. Credit: Patricia da Camara – Courtesy of the World Bank

World Bank: Latin America Has the Green Antidote Within Reach

By Diana Cariboni
The natural resources of currently buoyant Latin America could be significantly depleted in less than a generation. Combined with the fact that this is the region with the greatest income inequality between the rich and the poor, the outlook might appear disastrous. But the warning, voiced by the World Bank, is not meant as cause for despair.
Venezuela’s chief negotiator Claudia Salerno. Credit: IISD

RIO+20: Developing Countries Accept Green Economy*

By Diana Cariboni
It’s not true that developing countries conditioned the inclusion of the green economy in the final document at Rio+20 on clearly defined provisions for financing, the head of the Venezuelan delegation, Claudia Salerno, told TerraViva.
"Paradise also needs maintenance," states a sign outside a Cancún hotel, where sand is eroding away. Credit: Diana Cariboni/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Summit Ends Without Solving Emissions Puzzle

By Diana Cariboni
"We are the coldest country in the world... so global warming is good for us. The warmer it is, the bigger the harvests... They talk about stopping deforestation of the tropical jungles to fight climate change, but we don't have tropical jungles."
Via Campesina march Credit: Diana Cariboni/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Protesters Say “No” to Climate Market

By Diana Cariboni
The short-cuts that the United Nations system is offering companies to profit from strategies against global warming were the target of loud protests on the Day of Action for Climate Justice.
Via Campesina march at Cancún. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Straining Gnats and Swallowing Camels

By Diana Cariboni
What some people view as modest but real progress in the climate change talks, now in their second week in this southeastern Mexican resort city, others see as no more than smokescreens or "false solutions."
Mayan pyramid of criticism of polluting countries in Cancunmesse. Credit: Diana Cariboni/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Lost in Cancun

By Diana Cariboni
"The hurricane season officially ended on Nov. 30," a local shopkeeper told this journalist reassuringly as she entered his store with her hair blown in every direction by the wind on a drizzly, cloudy day.
Demonstration in support of President Rafael Correa, who was just rescued by the army after being kidnapped by the police. Credit: Office of the President of Ecuador

Q&A: The President “Is Going to Pay for What He’s Done”

By Diana Cariboni
"We're not letting him (President Rafael Correa) leave, and he's going to pay for what he's done to the police."
Villagers in Shamva, Zimbabwe, test a prototype of a water pump and tank for irrigating their gardens. Credit: Vusumuzi Sifile/IPS

How to Spend Environmental Funds

By Diana Cariboni
The world's multilateral credit institutions have often faced the criticism that they cause more problems than they prevent. As the challenges increase, such as those posed by climate change, the debate is shifting to environmental financing.

World Court Highlights Environmental Vulnerability of Uruguay River

By Diana Cariboni
If anything was left clear by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the long-running pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, it was the weakness of rules and regulations to prevent pollution of the Uruguay River in the 508-km stretch shared by the two countries.
President José Mujica and Vice President Danilo Astori leaving the legislative palace. Credit: Julieta Sokolowicz/IPS

URUGUAY: New President Aims for Leap in Development

By Diana Cariboni
"I've been crying (tears of joy) since yesterday. It's amazing to see how an ordinary person made it so far," said 44-year-old María del Rosario Corbo, referring to Uruguay's new President José "Pepe" Mujica, who was sworn in Monday at the head of this South American country's second leftist administration.
The ice is melting on Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico. Credit: Mauricio Ramos/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America’s Perpetual Fever

By Diana Cariboni
"To use a soccer metaphor, which Brazilian politicians like so much, the Kyoto Protocol was the 10-minute warm-up before the real game begins," said scientist Carlos Nobre in reference to global climate change treaties.

URUGUAY: Next President to Emerge from November Runoff

By Diana Cariboni
Uruguay's Electoral Court announced Monday that the governing Broad Front (FA) candidate José Mujica took 48 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections, which means he will face off with former conservative president Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party (PN) in a second round on Nov. 29.

HONDURAS: Coup d'Etat – What's In a Name?

By Diana Cariboni
The events unleashed two weeks ago in Honduras have raised questions about the options available in a democratic system to penalise infringements of the constitution without, in turn, trampling the constitution.
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