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Quito, Mayo 4.– La organización no gubernamental Amnistía Internacional advirtió el miércoles que la legislación y los proyectos extractivos, especialmente de petróleo y minerales, constituyen una amenaza tanto para los territorios como para los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonia ecuatoriana.

According to Russia's Finance Ministry, his country is facing its deepest economic decline in almost three decades as it grapples with the fallout from the invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg estimates that Russia’s GDP could shrink by as much as 12pc this year, the biggest contraction since 1994, when Russia’s Soviet-era economy lurched towards capitalism under its first president Boris Yeltsin. It would also wipe out around a decade of economic growth.

Riga, May 9.– Sanctions on Russia are affecting a very broad range of spheres and their impact on the Russian economy is serious, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said in a discussion dedicated to the day for the commemoration of Ukraine's war victims.

Los Cedears suben hasta 13% impulsados por el dólar CCL y Wall Street

Los Certificados de Depósito Argentino cotizan con subas generalizadas en el marco del aumento del dólar Contado con Liquidación y del ascenso de los principales índices en Wall Street.

Buenos Aires, Marzo 22.– Los Cedears cotizan con subas de hasta un 13% en sintonía con la recuperación de las acciones estadounidenses ya que los inversores ajustaban sus expectativas de subas de las tasas de interés tras los agresivos comentarios de la Reserva Federal.

What is Participatory Democracy? One of the Basic Documents published by the PDCI in our pages establishes (in Spanish) that: «Participatory democracy implies the active role of citizens in the functioning of democracy, through mechanisms established in a free civil society that allow their manifestation and effective participation in decision making. It is a democracy in which citizens are protagonists.» And it adds later on that: «Participatory democracy implies fostering the ways and means to convert citizens and their groups into direct political agents, even if marginal, but together with the political action of political parties»; therefore, it does NOT replace representative democracy nor antaghonizes it, but rather strengthens it. It is developed using certain mechanisms of direct democracy, as we may learn in the case of the State of Maine, in the USA.

Direct democracy 

Ellsworth, Mar. 18.– Most municipalities in Maine operate under a town meeting form of government. For many New England towns, it has been that way since colonial times.

The town meeting is sometimes referred to as the purest form of democracy because citizens — not elected officials — make the important decisions for the operations of the town. In this direct form of government, elected officials carry out the will of the voters who are responsible for the adoption of laws and the raising of funds each year.