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	<title>Miren Gutiérrez</title>
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		<title>New article about refugees in Italy, with Aldo Ciummo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITALY: Being a Refugee Becomes a Dream
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Claudine Mbuyi

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ROME, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ernestine Kayindo fled Goma town in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 amidst fighting between the regular army and rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (NCDP), a Tutsi armed group that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="marron"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43203" title="Article about refugees">ITALY: Being a Refugee Becomes a Dream</a></span></p>
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<strong>ROME, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ernestine Kayindo fled Goma town in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 amidst fighting between the regular army and rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (NCDP), a Tutsi armed group that is still active.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;All of us Congolese felt in danger of being killed,&#8221; says Kayindo, who now works in Rome with the Società Civile Congolese.</p>
<p>More than four million died in the 1997-2003 civil war that destroyed most of Congo. Many fled the violence, famine and disease.</p>
<p>Some sought refuge in Italy. But today they face uncertainty again, as parliament considers a law to punish undocumented migrants with six months to four years imprisonment. Many of those who fled violent conflict, and without documents under the circumstances, may now be refused asylum, and instead face jail.</p>
<p>The new law would be lethal for migrants like the Congolese in Italy. These number less than 4,000 within a migrant population of about 3.7 million. But their plight is a vivid illustration of the dangers from the proposed law.</p>
<p>The Commission for Constitutional Affairs and the Commission of Justice of the Italian Senate will finish examining the proposed immigration law Jul. 18. The Senate will vote on the penalty for undocumented migrants Jul. 24.</p>
<p>Last year only 57 Congolese submitted requests for asylum, and just 14 were successful. In 2006, 102 Congolese citizens applied for asylum; only 33 were accepted.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43203" title="Article about refugees in Italy">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>WOMEN-MEDIA: Stuck at the Starting Gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Two journalists at the recent FAO summit in Rome. Only one-third of the journalists working in Italian newsrooms are women.

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ROME, Jun 9 (IPS) - &#8220;We should not be all that surprised that we are stalled,&#8221; says Jane Ransom, executive director of the International Women&#8217;s Media Foundation (IWMF), referring to the absence of [...]]]></description>
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<font color="#000000">Two journalists at the recent FAO summit in Rome. Only one-third of the journalists working in Italian newsrooms are women.<br />
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<strong>ROME, Jun 9 (IPS) - &#8220;We should not be all that surprised that we are stalled,&#8221; says Jane Ransom, executive director of the International Women&#8217;s Media Foundation (IWMF), referring to the absence of women leaders in media organisations.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;We have a few generations of educated, free women,&#8221; she notes, but this must be considered in the context of many preceding generations in which women were barred from journalism. &#8220;Men still control most of the media, and most cultural, financial, and political structures are still male-dominated,&#8221; she says.</p>
<p>According to the report &#8220;Women Make the News 2008&#8243;, published by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, &#8220;Progress of women journalists&#8217; careers is still hampered by lingering stereotypes and subtle discrimination. Women journalists continue to face substantial obstacles to full participation in the newsroom &#8212; particularly in terms of management opportunities.&#8221;</p>
<p>This &#8220;patriarchal ideology&#8221; seems ubiquitous and culture-blind in the media sectors of many countries.</p>
<p>Editor of South Africa&#8217;s Mail &amp; Guardian, Ferial Haffajee, says that a 2006 &#8220;Glass Ceiling Study&#8221; published by the National Editors Forum and the NGO Genderlinks found that &#8220;the larger media contingent in South Africa lags behind, that the number of women in senior positions is not near equality, and that women felt themselves to still inhabit patriarchal workplaces.&#8221;</p>
<p>It seems that women&#8217;s access to universities and newsrooms is more or less equal, but at some point, their progress stops. Do women &#8220;opt out&#8221; or are they &#8220;pushed out&#8221;?</p>
<p>&#8220;Women are pushed out because of unfriendly, child-unfriendly working hours,&#8221; says Haffajee. &#8220;Owners haven&#8217;t created crèches or made job arrangements which allow women to thrive and climb. Journalism is a hard slog. Stories happen at inconvenient times, deadline is way beyond normal societal hours, maternity leave provisions are poor. The lack of paid maternity leave, and the unsociable hours of journalism really emerged as huge push-factors.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ransom concurs. &#8220;My observation is that women in the news media have some extra special challenges,&#8221; she told IPS. &#8220;Compared to women in some other key professions, such as law and finance, I think women journalists receive less institutional support addressing career advancement, work-life balance, and skills training.&#8221;</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42717" title="Women &amp; Media">Read more&#8230;</a></span></p>
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		<title>WOMEN-MEDIA: Conspicuous By Their Absence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Heavy duty. Women are often the face, but rarely the boss behind the news.

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ROME, Jun 6 (IPS) - Observe any summit picture &#8212; you won&#8217;t find many women. The mystery of female underrepresentation in the echelons of power persists: after so many decades of the feminist movement, why are women at the [...]]]></description>
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<strong>ROME, Jun 6 (IPS) - Observe any summit picture &#8212; you won&#8217;t find many women. The mystery of female underrepresentation in the echelons of power persists: after so many decades of the feminist movement, why are women at the helm scarce? A look at the media sector may provide some answers.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;The media is a mirror on society so it needs to be a reflection of that society. If our newsrooms are male-dominated spaces, they will reflect a male-dominated world. That, for me, is not living true to our mission of creating non-racial (in the case of South Africa), non-biased, non-sexist societies,&#8221; says Ferial Haffajee, the first woman editor of the South African Mail &amp; Guardian.</p>
<p>Media organisations are the gatekeepers of much of what is known in the public sphere, while journalistic stories contribute to perpetuating stereotypes, or changing them. It is quite revealing, then, to find out who is in the kitchen cooking the news.</p>
<p>&#8220;The influence of women in journalism is one of the most central problem areas in feminist media research,&#8221; acknowledges a recent report entitled &#8220;The Gender of Journalism&#8221;, authored by researcher Monika Djerf-Pierre.</p>
<p>It is difficult to draw global conclusions about the role of women in media organisations, since studies are largely focused on specific countries, and deal mainly with western women or with how women are portrayed in stories as sources or topics. So let&#8217;s have a look at some examples, even if fragmented.</p>
<p>Djerf-Pierre&#8217;s study shows that even in a female-friendly nation such as Sweden, &#8220;journalism as a field has remained male-dominated&#8221;. (Sweden ranks number one &#8212; or the country with the narrowest disparity &#8212; in the Global Gender Gap [GGG] published by the World Economic Forum).</p>
<p>A period of tokenism was followed by the upsurge of a critical mass of women who entered the newsrooms in the last 25 years. Today, almost half of Swedish journalists are women, she says in the study. However, three out of four leaders in the media industry are men.</p>
<p>Only in two sectors, public broadcasting and magazines, do women fill more than 40 percent of leadership positions. Djerf-Pierre explains that a general pattern &#8212; she calls it &#8220;gender logic&#8221; &#8212; persists: men typically cover the public sphere of politics, business, and power, speaking to male sources and assuming the mantle of objectivity; women tend to cover the private sphere, drawing on female sources and writing in a more intimate style.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42688" title="Women &amp; Media">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>FILM:  An Apocalyptic, Hopeless Den of Iniquity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Miren Gutierrez and Aldo Ciummo*




 A scene from &#8220;Gomorra&#8221;.






ROME, May 27 (IPS) - The room is packed, the film ends with pounding music, and the word &#8220;Gomorra&#8221; is shown in an uncomfortable fuchsia over black. The audience applauds and leaves quietly while the music continues to hammer home the message.
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<strong>ROME, May 27 (IPS) - The room is packed, the film ends with pounding music, and the word &#8220;Gomorra&#8221; is shown in an uncomfortable fuchsia over black. The audience applauds and leaves quietly while the music continues to hammer home the message.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Gomorra&#8221; ­­ an inside look at Naples&#8217; notorious Camorra gang ­­ has won the Grand Prix at Cannes, and the book of the same title on which it is based has been translated into dozens of languages, and sold millions of copies. But for Italians, it is not mere entertainment.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve known this to be true already,&#8221; said Eliana Villa, as she left the theatre. &#8220;But this movie has showed us the reality in an unprocessed, detailed way.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is impossible to be optimistic, but we need to fight this situation,&#8221; added audience member Lidia Marzoli.</p>
<p>The publication of the book in 2006 was followed by death threats against its author, Roberto Saviano, who relates the first-person account of a young man learning the ropes of illegal toxic waste disposal.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am constantly escorted by police, I have to move all the time&#8230; I don&#8217;t lead a normal life anymore,&#8221; Aviano told the daily La Repubblica last year.</p>
<p>From underworld warfare to the Camorra&#8217;s control of the building industry, arms and drug trafficking, haute couture manufacturing, and even the handling of toxic waste, Saviano depicts a shocking portrait of a crime syndicate that has killed 3,600 people in the last 30 years, according to different accounts, including that of former prosecutor Gen. Pier Luigi Vigna.</span></p>
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		<title>Q&#038;A:  Of Elephants, Mice and Fleas</title>
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 Sylvia Borren

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ROME, May 22 (IPS) - Sylvia Borren was executive director at Oxfam Novib from 1999 until Feb 2008. Before that she was programme director.
Oxfam Novib is the &#8220;elephant&#8221;, in her words, at Oxfam International, a confederation of 13 organisations working with over 3,000 [...]]]></description>
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<strong>ROME, May 22 (IPS) - Sylvia Borren was executive director at Oxfam Novib from 1999 until Feb 2008. Before that she was programme director.</strong></span></p>
<p>Oxfam Novib is the &#8220;elephant&#8221;, in her words, at Oxfam International, a confederation of 13 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries, whose aim is to fight &#8220;for a just world without poverty&#8221;.</p>
<p>She talks with IPS Editor-in-Chief Miren Gutierrez about her legacy and other issues such as aid and how that intermixes with gender, and her work at the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP).</p>
<p>IPS: Oxfam International is a heterogeneous association&#8230; Was it difficult to keep a common goal and work together?</p>
<p>Sylvia Borren: Oxfam Novib is not large or influential enough on its own. The idea was to try to achieve greater impact through collective efforts. We had to jump over our shadow and link hands in order to have an impact. This became a strategic priority.</p>
<p>We are heterogeneous. At Oxfam we say we are an organisation of elephants (Oxfam Great Britain, Oxfam Novib), mice (Oxfam Australia, the U.S., Belgium, Hong Kong) and fleas (New Zealand, Ireland). And to my great delight Oxfam India and Oxfam Mexico are joining.</p>
<p>To handle this diversity we went from a representational to a competency business model, which made it possible to benefit from everyone’s strengths. For example, New Zealand is excellent in evaluation; Belgium, in mobilisation; Australia, in working with youths in parliament; Great Britain has more people on the ground&#8230; You have less paternalism this way&#8230; The win-win situation comes when you combine these qualities.</p>
<p>IPS: Surely it wasn’t always a harmonious relationship&#8230;</p>
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<p class="p">La periodista Miren Gutiérrez (San Sebastián, 1966), editora jefe de la agencia internacional de noticias Inter Press Service, ofrecerá mañana en el Aula de Cultura DV una conferencia en torno La red del dinero sucio, tema que ya protagonizaba también su novela La ciudad de las cigarras. Y aunque los paraísos fiscales acaparan la atención mediática en estos asuntos, lo cierto es que son algunos bancos de Londres, Nueva York o Zurich los que realizan los mayores lavados de dinero procedente del tráfico de armas, de drogas y de otras actividades ilegales.</p>
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<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- Este tema, ¿da más para un libro-reportaje o para una novela?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- En la conferencia, hablaré de tres casos de investigación de la petrolera Mobile y de sus actividades en Panamá, Kazajastán y Estados Unidos. Todo esto es el trasfondo de otra novela.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- Todas estas redes, ¿no habían desaparecido con el libro tráfico de capitales y mercancías?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Qué va. Para nada. En 2008, se calcula que se lavarán entre un millón de millones y 1,5 millón de millones de dólares. La mayor parte de este dinero se va a lavar en países ricos.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- La sensación general es que estas redes campan a sus anchas.</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Bueno, hay muchísima presión por parte de países como EE UU desde los atentados del 11-S de 2001. Washington ha puesto muchísimo énfasis en todas las jurisdicciones off shore para que refuercen sus regulaciones porque tener las leyes es una cosa y aplicarlas, otra. El problema es que puedes apretar las tuercas a todos los paraísos fiscales, pero donde más se lava es en Londres, Nueva York, Zurich o Liechtestein y los que más lavan son instituciones bancarias enormes que están en esos países.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- ¿Es un servicio habitual de determinados bancos?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Sí, es toda una industria que se llama protección de activos. Estuve hace años en un congreso sobre este tema y los operadores que asistían bromeaban llamándola «planificación familiar». ¿Dónde escondo el dinero para que herede quién yo quiera o para que no lo herede una esposa o un esposo potencialmente divorciado? Esto sólo es parte del negocio porque la evasión fiscal nutre el blanqueo del dinero, que tiene que ver con actividades terroristas, del narcotráfico y operaciones ilegales.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- ¿Por ejemplo?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Hay uno que me hace mucha gracia: el que relata la película La guerra de Charlie Wilson. La CIA financió con miles de millones de dólares las acciones de los mujaidines en Afganistán, que luchaban contra las tropas de la Unión Soviética. Se hizo gracias a que había instituciones financieras al servicio de la canalización de estos fondos a través de Pakistán.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- O sea, que hay organismos estatales que son clientes de estas redes.</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Un ejemplo: el Banco de Crédito y Comercio Internacional (BCCI), que colapsó en 1991, pero cuyo caso aún colea en los tribunales, es el mayor fraude bancario de la historia. Se perdieron entre 9,5 y 15.000 millones de dólares. Este banco sirvió a la CIA para canalizar fondos destinados a todo tipo de actividades irregulares en el extranjero.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">-¿Cree que  es una batalla perdida?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Debe haber más intercambio de información entre países. Ahí tenemos el asunto de Alemania con Liechtenstein. En 2001, Arnoldo Aleman, ex presidente de Nicaragua, robó mucho dinero y estos fondos fueron localizados en bancos de EE UU. Con los casos de Fujimori y Montesinos en Perú pasó algo parecido.</p>
<p class="p"> <strong class="strong">- ¿Salen baratas estas prácticas?</strong></p>
<p class="p">- Lo típico es que haya un chivo expiatorio. Los bancos están obligados a seguir unas reglas, por ejemplo, conoce a tu cliente. Sin embargo, tenemos el caso bastante reciente del Riksbank, en Washington, que lavó dinero para Augusto Pinochet y Teodoro Obiang, y tan sólo ha pagado una multa de 25 millones de dólares. Nada, en comparación con los cientos de millones de dólares que lavó para estos dictadores.</p>
<p class="p">- ¿Y sería capaz de explicar el caso de la Société Générale de Francia de modo que se entienda?</p>
<p class="p">- No es un caso de evasión fiscal, sino de falta de controles internos que, recurrente y lamentablemente, se da en los colapsos bancarios. Lo que ha pasado es que a un señor de treinta años, llamado Jerôme Kerviel y al que seguramente consideraban un genio, no lo supervisaron suficientemente. El tipo arriesgó hasta 50.000 millones de dólares en los mercados financieros y ha causado una quiebra de 5.000 millones. ¿Qué hay detrás? Una falta de control que se repite a lo largo de la historia. Comparaba este caso con el del Barings Bank, que en 1995 colapsó porque otro de sus empleados perdió 1.400 millones de dólares en el mercado de derivados de Singapur. La pérdida fue menor pero tumbó al banco más antiguo de Gran Bretaña. Luego, este banco fue comprado por el holandés ING por el precio simbólico de una libra.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q&#38;A: &#8220;We Are Haunted By a War Begun Under False Pretences&#8221;
Interview with Chuck Lewis, founder of the Centre for Public Integrity




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WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (IPS) - Eight key players in the George W. Bush administration, including the president himself, made at least 935 false statements in the run-up to [...]]]></description>
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</span><span class="marron">Interview with Chuck Lewis, founder of the Centre for Public Integrity</span></p>
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<strong>WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (IPS) - Eight key players in the George W. Bush administration, including the president himself, made at least 935 false statements in the run-up to and aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.</strong></span><span class="texto1">These are some of the findings of a mammoth report just released by the Centre for Public Integrity, directed by founder Chuck Lewis.</p>
<p>Lewis asked his researchers to track every utterance by the top U.S. officials made from Sep. 11, 2001 through Sep. 11, 2003, regarding Iraq, &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221;, and the alleged link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. These officials include President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and former White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.</p>
<p>What this report proves is remarkable, even though it is now a matter of public record that there were no WMD in Iraq and that the attacks against the U.S. in 2001 had no connection to Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>Lewis concludes in a statement: &#8220;Clearly, this Iraq chronology calls into question the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence. More broadly, consider the timeless words of the late historian and Librarian of Congress, Daniel Boorstin, in his classic 1961 work, &#8220;The Image&#8221;: &#8216;We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality.&#8217; America went to war nearly five years ago after an orchestrated campaign of false statements by the nation&#8217;s top officials, a war begun under the illusion of an imminent national security threat. We are haunted by a war begun, in other words, under false pretences.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lewis spoke with IPS&#8217;s Editor in Chief Miren Gutierrez about what he says is &#8220;an unprecedented, 380,000-word, online searchable, public and private Iraq war chronology, the public statements interlaced with the internal knowledge, discussions, doubts, and dissent known at the time. What they said publicly juxtaposed against what they knew internally.&#8221;</p>
<p>IPS: You have tagged how many false statements were made by these top officials over the two years. How many exactly? Can you make any comparisons?</p>
<p>CL: We found 935 false statements&#8230; Bush made the most statements; McClellan the fewest. No one has ever done this for any other U.S. war, to my knowledge, a public and private chronology of what they said versus what they knew internally. There is no comparison to the past.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40887" title="Interview with Chuck Lewis">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
<p></span><a target="_blank" href="http://ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=87250" title="Entrevista Chuck Lewis en español">En español</a></p>
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<strong>ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - Roberto Savio is probably among the best informed insiders at the World Social Forum (WSF). He has been on its international committee since it was created in 2001, and since 2003 he has been coordinator of the &#8216;media, culture and counter-hegemony&#8217; thematic area.</strong></span></p>
<p>He founded the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency in 1964, as well as other news and information organisations, always with an emphasis on the developing world. He is now IPS President Emeritus. He is co-founder of Media Watch International, based in Paris, and Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for a New Humanity, a foundation promoting the culture of peace.</p>
<p>Savio speaks with IPS Editor-in-Chief Miren Gutiérrez about the future of the WSF.</p>
<p>IPS: The World Social Forum (WSF) is an anti-globalisation movement, using the term &#8216;globalisation&#8217; in a doctrinal sense, not a literal one. But the WSF is a global phenomenon&#8230;</p>
<p>Roberto Savio: The WSF is not a movement against globalisation; it is a movement against the kind of globalisation which is based only on the values of market and profit. That is a globalisation spawned by the Washington Consensus, the call for a New International Order made in the late eighties by the International Financial Institutions and the U.S. Treasury Department.</p>
<p>It also coincided with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and an unprecedented return to unilateralism in international relations, based on hegemony, military might, and the idea that the interests of the U.S. were automatically the interests of humankind, as President (George) Bush declared several times. The result of this kind of globalisation was to marginalise the United Nations, international law, and the call for social justice, sustainable development and other values which are enshrined in the constitutions of practically all countries.</p>
<p>Those who identify themselves with the WSF want another globalisation, where social justice, participation, democracy and people are also values. It is significant that when we started in 2001, we were considered a fringe movement; even by then President of Brazil. Now, seven years later, nobody defends any longer the Washington Consensus. The damages it did worldwide have prompted the IFIs to do some significant corrections, and even the Bush administration is having several changes of route.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40728" title="interview with Roberto Savio" target="_blank">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
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By Miren Gutiérrez*

ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - Is there a female way to lead? Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has raised that possibility in saying that she tries to lead through consensus, not by imposition. &#8220;While not wishing to generalise, many women have leadership styles that have been described as [...]]]></description>
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<span class="marron">By Miren Gutiérrez*</span><br />
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<strong>ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - Is there a female way to lead? Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has raised that possibility in saying that she tries to lead through consensus, not by imposition. </strong></span><span class="texto1">&#8220;While not wishing to generalise, many women have leadership styles that have been described as &#8216;empowering leadership&#8217; or &#8216;consensual leadership&#8217;, where they build leadership structures that share responsibilities according to the &#8216;best fit&#8217;, and in doing so, often create new types of leadership,&#8221; Ayesha Kajee, researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs and board member of Transparency International&#8217;s South Africa chapter, tells IPS.</span><span class="texto1">&#8220;Since women also tend to discuss problems more openly and utilise &#8216;group-think&#8217; to seek solutions, such solutions are often more acceptable to teams. Some have described these as inherently female ways of interacting, but these styles can and should be learnt by both men and women leaders.&#8221;</p>
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<p>An example, Kajee says, is Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who has &#8220;clearly indicated that she intends to bring feminine qualities to the Liberian presidency, a very important component in a country which has been decimated and devastated by horrendous crimes and human rights violations.</p>
<p>&#8220;But this is not to say that these qualities negate the need for a strong leader in Liberia. She has both &#8212; the traditional strength of will, ambition and determination associated with African leaders, which will prevent her being abused by the old boys&#8217; club because she can fight most battles on equal terms with them, and also the nurturing, reconciliatory and healing qualities that her shattered nation requires to rebuild the national spirit and collective human dignity.&#8221;</p>
<p></span>Inevitably, a suggestion of any specifically female style of leadership is controversial.</p>
<p>Joanne Sandler, deputy executive director for programmes at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), says she is reluctant to buy into the &#8220;essentialist argument&#8221; that women have a different way of leading.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some evidence tends to be true, but you cannot say all women build consensus and men don&#8217;t. But I think it is also true that in countries whose parliaments have more than 30 percent of women, where women can more easily access positions of leadership, they tend to get outcomes that address women&#8217;s rights more frequently, and other types of rights, so political negotiation is probably vulnerable to gender difference to some extent.&#8221;</p>
<p>In places where you have more than 30 percent of women in parliament or congress, &#8220;child care policy, security, education, issues that are often associated with women, begin to emerge. I don&#8217;t mean that men don&#8217;t care about them; but I think that there is evidence that the theory of critical mass is a valid one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Charlotte Bunch, executive director of the Centre for Women&#8217;s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in the U.S., tells IPS that &#8220;there is a more collaborative style of leadership that more women like and find comfortable. And women are more likely to do that, but I don&#8217;t call it female&#8217; because some men are like that, while some women aren&#8217;t… But it is a cultural construction our world needs more of.&#8221;</p>
<p>Men can take the right decisions for women, too. &#8220;I think change comes about not only because of who the president is, but also because of who she or he appoints,&#8221; says Sandler.</p>
<p>&#8220;In Rwanda, a male head of state (Paul Kagame) has been very supportive of a gender equality policy, and as a result Rwanda has the highest percentage of women in the low and high houses of parliament. The combination of a supportive president and more women in key positions transforms the political structure, and then you start seeing changes.&#8221;</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40726" title="Article Women">Read more&#8230; </a></p>
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By Miren Gutiérrez*

ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - &#8220;Do you think a man could ever be president?&#8221; the little boy in Ireland asks his mother. All his life he has only seen women presidents, currently Mary McAleese.Joanne Sandler, deputy executive director for programmes at the United Nations Development Fund for [...]]]></description>
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<strong>ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - &#8220;Do you think a man could ever be president?&#8221; the little boy in Ireland asks his mother. All his life he has only seen women presidents, currently Mary McAleese.</strong></span><span class="texto1">Joanne Sandler, deputy executive director for programmes at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), tells this little anecdote to show that in some places it can be routine for women to be found in leadership roles.</p>
<p>&#8220;In places like Ireland and Finland it is becoming less extraordinary to see a woman in power,&#8221; says Sandler. And it is this kind of female power that could bring more women into leadership, she says.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you see women in positions of power, in ministries, obviously the self-image of girls changes, and they envision themselves in those places. But that kind of change will take a very long time, though it has started,&#8221; she adds.</p>
<p>The change does not necessarily correspond to a nation&#8217;s level of economic development.</p>
<p>Italy ranks 84 in the latest Gender Gap Index (GGI) of the World Economic Forum, where the number one marks the smallest gap. That places it behind Bolivia (80), Peru (75) or Armenia (70), even though it is among the world’s biggest economies.</p>
<p>Panama is number 38 among 128 countries surveyed, while Liberia with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president is not ranked. Sri Lanka is ranked 15, the United States 31, Argentina 33, Mongolia 62, Indonesia 81, Nicaragua 90 and Bangladesh 100. The Philippines fares extraordinarily well at number six, after Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and New Zealand. Pakistan ranks 126, with the biggest gap only after Yemen (128) and Chad (127).</p>
<p>Like national wealth, personal wealth is not an essential pre-requisite. &#8220;There is not a relationship between more money and less gender discrimination,&#8221; says Sandler. &#8220;Money and power have an influence in those women achieving power. But money alone doesn&#8217;t explain it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look at the elections in Liberia. A woman who has education, a former employee of the World Bank and the U.N., with an impressive resume, against a man who had no high school education, a soccer player (George Weah). Imagine the opposite: against a man with Johnson-Sirleaf&#8217;s background, would a woman with Weah&#8217;s credentials be a serious contender? To be a contender for high level political office, women have to bring a lot of extra qualities in order to get into the race. They need the same things as a man, plus others.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ayesha Kajee, researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs and board member of Transparency International&#8217;s South Africa chapter, says &#8220;money is most certainly a partial equaliser for women, in terms of access &#8212; access to education, capital, property and opportunity. But even amongst wealthy elites, men tend to wield considerably more power than women. Thus, wealth does not guarantee equity between men and women.&#8221;</p>
<p></span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40724" title="Article Women">Read more&#8230; </a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=87324" title="Mamá, ¿un hombre puede ser presidente?">En español</a></p>
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		<title>My latest article, on women and power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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By Miren Gutierrez**

ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - &#8220;A woman who enters politics changes; a thousand women who enter politics change politics,&#8221; Chilean President Michelle Bachelet told the Spanish television channel TVE in a recent interview.It is the former that seems to ring more true. Most powerful women, particularly [...]]]></description>
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<span class="marron">By Miren Gutierrez**</span><br />
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<strong>ROME, Jan 9 (IPS) - &#8220;A woman who enters politics changes; a thousand women who enter politics change politics,&#8221; Chilean President Michelle Bachelet told the Spanish television channel TVE in a recent interview.</strong></span><span class="texto1">It is the former that seems to ring more true. Most powerful women, particularly though not only in developing countries, are or have been members of elite families: widows, daughters, wives of powerful men, in societies where women do not have equal access to most things.</p>
<p>The list of female rulers who have derived their leadership from men is a long and telling one.</p>
<p>Mireya Moscoso (president of Panama from 1999-2004) was widow of three times former president Arnulfo Arias (who was deposed each time by the military). Before her, Isabel Martínez de Perón was president of Argentina from 1974-1976, following the death of her husband, President Juan Domingo Perón. Argentina has just elected its second woman president: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who succeeded her husband Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) in December.</p>
<p>The success &#8212; or succession &#8212; of women began in Asia in recent times with Sühbaataryn Yanjmaa, widow of Mongolian hero Sühbaatar. She was the equivalent of head of state from Sept. 23, 1953 to Jul. 7, 1954. &#8220;If we consider such a post as having a real ruling status, she would have been (excepting queens) the absolute first woman political ruler in contemporary history,&#8221; says Zárate&#8217;s Political Collections (ZPC), a record of worldwide leadership.</p>
<p>Corazon Aquino was president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, after her husband Benigno Aquino &#8212; the leader of the opposition against dictator Ferdinand Marcos &#8212; was assassinated. Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan president from 1994-2005, followed in the footsteps of her mother Sirimavo Bandaranaike, three times prime minister, a rare instance of a woman taking leadership after another female family member.</p>
<p>Benazir Bhutto, assassinated Dec. 27, was Pakistani prime minister from 1988-1990 and again from 1993-1996. She was the daughter of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.</p>
<p>Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Sukarno (Indonesia&#8217;s first post-colonial president 1945-1967), led the world&#8217;s largest Muslim country from 2001-2004, and is expected to seek the post again in 2009. In Bangladesh, arch-enemies Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia have both served as prime ministers and as heads of the two largest political parties. Hasina&#8217;s late father and Zia&#8217;s late husband ran the country at different times.</p>
<p>&#8220;These women share dynastic origins and &#8216;inherited&#8217; political leadership,&#8221; says the German government-funded research report ‘Dynasties and Female Leadership in Asia’.</p>
<p></span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40723" title="Article Women">Read more&#8230; </a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=87323" title="Al gobierno sobre los hombros de los hombres">En español</a></p>
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		<title>Fotografías de la Tertulia en San Sebastián</title>
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		<title>Nuevo artículo sobre mi novela</title>
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Un libro de Miren Gutiérrez sigue los pasos de Marc Harris, &#8220;uno de los mayores estafadores del Caribe&#8221;
 la periodista donostiarrapresenta la obra &#8216;la ciudad de las cigarras&#8217;
La escritora ha comenzado a escribir su segundo libro, un trabajo que también excava en la historia negra de Panamá

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<h3><span style="text-transform: uppercase"> la periodista donostiarra<strong>presenta</strong> la obra <strong>&#8216;la ciudad de las cigarras&#8217;</strong></span></h3>
<h4>La escritora ha comenzado a escribir su segundo libro, un trabajo que también excava en la historia negra de Panamá</h4>
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<p class="foto"> 	<img src="http://www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.com/ediciones/2007/12/19/mirarte/cultura/fotos/4592300.jpg" border="0" /> Miren Gutiérrez en una presentación anterior de su libro.<span style="text-transform: uppercase">Foto: iban aguinaga</span>
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<p><span style="text-transform: uppercase">Donostia.</span>  La donostiarra Miren Gutiérrez, que actualmente trabaja como editora jefa de la agencia de prensa internacional <em>Inter Press Service</em>  en Roma, presentó ayer su opera prima, <em>La ciudad de las cigarras</em> ante el público guipuzcoano. Se trata de un libro de ficción basado en una investigación que Gutiérrez realizó cuando trabajó en el periódico panameño <em>La Prensa</em> entre los años 1997 y 2003. Durante ese periodo, la periodista siguió los pasos de Marc Harris, un norteamericano que fue arrestado, juzgado y condenado a 17 años de cárcel por evasión fiscal y lavado de dinero en el país caribeño.</p>
<p>&#8220;Al principio no pensé en que acabaría escribiendo una novela sobre el tema, pero se trataba de uno de los mayores estafadores del Caribe y contaba con multitud de documentos que podrían ilustrar la historia&#8221;, explicó ayer Gutiérrez en la presentación que sirvió de aperitivo a la tertulia vespertina que la autora protagonizó en la Biblioteca Central de la ciudad. Además, según indicó, varios corresponsales que conoció en los años posteriores en los que ejerció su profesión en Hong Kong no le creían cuando les contaba la historia de Marc Harris, y eso le animó a redactar los hechos.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lo de ese hombre era algo increíble porque se dedicaba a blanquear dinero y se quedaba con una parte de él. Sin embargo, nadie lo denunciaba porque los afectados también infringían la ley&#8221;, explicó. Además, según indicó, &#8220;hasta el mismísimo fiscal general protegía a este individuo&#8221;.</p>
<p>Miren Gutiérrez navega en este mundo de aventuras en el que entrevistas encubiertas, traiciones, accidentes, revelaciones, fuentes secretas y abogados sin escrúpulos comparten protagonismo con el tal Harris.</p>
<p>La periodista ha recurrido al lenguaje panameño con el fin de acercar la realidad del país al lector. Asimismo, ha tenido que apartar el léxico periodístico y adentrarse en el ámbito de la literatura, cuestión que ha dificultado su labor. &#8220;Estamos acostumbrados a ser breves y contarlo todo, pero en un libro no tienes por qué decirlo todo y me ha costado acostumbrarme a eso&#8221;, confesó la autora.</p>
<p>La escritora señaló que disfrutó mucho en el proceso de elaboración del primer libro, por lo que no ha dudado en comenzar un segundo. &#8220;He empezado a escribir la historia de Jorge Krupnik, uno de los mayores colaboradores del dictador panameño Manuel Antonio Noriega. En este caso, también parto de una investigación periodística de quien fuera el organizador del tráfico de armamento de Noriega&#8221;, adelantó.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[El martes, día 18 de diciembre, soy la invitada en una rueda de prensa sobre mi novela La Ciudad de las Cigarras, en la Biblioteca Central, a las 12:30, y en una tertulia literaria, en el mismo lugar, a las 19:30, organizada por Donostia Kultura. Me presenta Beatriz Monrreal.
TERTULIAS LITERARIAS
18 de diciembre. 19:30.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El martes, día 18 de diciembre, soy la invitada en una rueda de prensa sobre mi novela La Ciudad de las Cigarras, en la Biblioteca Central, a las 12:30, y en una tertulia literaria, en el mismo lugar, a las 19:30, organizada por <a href="http://www.donostiakultura.com/masinfoevento.php?id=1352&amp;diaagenda=06&amp;mesagenda=12&amp;&amp;annoagenda=2007&amp;ver=xmes&amp;xmes=&amp;xsemana=&amp;tema=11&amp;dedonde=temas&amp;centros=" title="Donostia Kultura" target="_blank">Donostia Kultura</a>. Me presenta Beatriz Monrreal.</p>
<p>TERTULIAS LITERARIAS<br />
18 de diciembre. 19:30.</p>
<p>BIBLIOTECA CENTRAL (San Jeronimo)</p>
<p>Dinamizadora: Beatriz Monrreal.<br />
La autora asistirá a la tertulia.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.casaresirratia.com/" title="Anuncio Radio" target="_blank" class="contentpagetitle"> 						La ciudad de la cigarras</a></p>
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<td><span> 					<a href="http://www.casaresirratia.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=section&amp;id=1">Liburu DK</a> - 				</span> 						<span> 				<a href="http://www.casaresirratia.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=1&amp;id=18">Tertulias Literarias</a>			</span></td>
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<td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top">jueves, 06 de diciembre de 2007</td>
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<p align="justify"> <img src="http://www.casaresirratia.com/images/stories/liburudk/tertulias/mirengutierrez.jpg" alt="mirengutierrez.jpg" title="mirengutierrez.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 190px" height="190" width="200" />El 18 de diciembre y a partir de las 19.30 la <strong>Sala de Actividades de la Biblioteca Central</strong> acoge la tertulia literaria moderada por <strong>Beatriz Monreal</strong>, que este mes cuenta con la presencia de la autora del libro <strong>MIREN GUTIERREZ</strong>. El libro que se va a analizar sera <strong>LA CIUDAD DE LAS CIGARRAS.</strong></p>
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<p align="justify"> Miren Gutiérrez cuenta la vida de un blanqueador de dinero en Panamá y está basada en el americano Marc Harris.</p>
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Interview with Chuck Lewis, Fund for Independence in Journalism




 Chuck Lewis




ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership, shrivelling papers&#8230;is journalism imploding? Can independent journalism survive?
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<strong>ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership, shrivelling papers&#8230;is journalism imploding? Can independent journalism survive?</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; says Chuck Lewis, founder of the Centre for Public Integrity, and one of the most respected voices in journalism today. And the answer is non-profit journalism.</p>
<p>Lewis is a former producer of the CBS show 60 Minutes, and a journalist-in-residence at American University in Washington. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and many other publications. A pioneer of the non-profit model, Lewis speaks with Miren Gutierrez, IPS Editor-in-Chief about the future of journalism.</p>
<p>IPS: So, the news is that in-depth, independent journalism may endure&#8230;But investigative reporting is expensive, it could be risky too. Who will pay for it?</p>
<p>Chuck Lewis: Civic-minded, wealthy individuals who believe in the concept of an &#8220;informed citizenry&#8221; and public service journalism &#8212; local, regional, national, international&#8230;Great work itself will begin to attract &#8220;buzz&#8221; online, and other revenue sources could open up, from advertising, to subscribers/members, to paid partnerships with existing hollowed out media corporations desperately seeking content, etc. In some parts of the world, such as Europe, government funding or direct public subsidies (as with the BBC) are possible too, with its related issues&#8230;</p>
<p>IPS: In your recent article &#8216;The Non-profit Road: It&#8217;s paved not with gold, but with good journalism&#8217;, you say that while increasingly newspapers will develop into &#8220;print-digital hybrids&#8221; (an expression coined by Robert Kuttner, co-founder and editor of the liberal U.S. magazine The American Prospect), advertising revenue is still to come up to editorial payroll levels. So what happens in the meantime?</p>
<p>CL: In the meantime, downsizing will continue, bureaus will close, investigations will not be undertaken or funded&#8230;Some media organisations will cease to exist or become unrecognisable vis-à-vis news as we have known it&#8230;Celebrity-headline-entertainment-sport-weather pap instead, masquerading as &#8220;news&#8221;.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q&#38;A: &#8216;We Do Not Want to Halve Poverty: Eradicate It&#8217;
Interview with Sylvia Borren, Executive Director of Oxfam-Novib





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Sylvia Borren




ROME, Oct 8 (IPS) - Sylvia Borren is one of the three co-chairs of GCAP, together with Kumi Naidoo (Secretary General of Civicus) and Ana Agostino (Member of GCAP&#8217;s Feminist Taskforce).Marking the International Day for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="texto1"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39567" title="Interview with Sylvia Borren"><span class="marron_titulo_big">Q&amp;A:</span> <span class="marron_titulo_big">&#8216;We Do Not Want to Halve Poverty: Eradicate It&#8217;</span></a><br />
</span><span class="marron">Interview with Sylvia Borren, Executive Director of Oxfam-Novib</span><br />
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<strong>ROME, Oct 8 (IPS) - Sylvia Borren is one of the three co-chairs of GCAP, together with Kumi Naidoo (Secretary General of Civicus) and Ana Agostino (Member of GCAP&#8217;s Feminist Taskforce).</strong></span><span class="texto1">Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17, IPS Editor-in-Chief Miren Gutierrez speaks with Borren about what the GCAP (Global Call to Action against Poverty) campaign means for people.</p>
<p>IPS: Last year GCAP and the UN Millennium Campaign set a Guinness World Record for the largest single coordinated mobilisation in history, when 23.5 million people in more than 100 countries stood up against poverty on Oct. 17. Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika joined the demonstrations; in Jaipur, India, 38,000 cricket fans stood up; and in the Philippines thousands of people marched against poverty, among many other events. Do you expect to break the record this year?</p>
<p>Sylvia Borren: The amazing record of 23.5 million people around the world standing up against poverty can still excite me &#8212; but how sad that there was virtually no publicity about it. That will be very different this year I expect. I find I can&#8217;t predict the numbers, but this time there are different forms chosen to demand justice. There are stand-up actions, speak out and sing out performances, and football games &#8216;blowing the whistle on poverty&#8217;.</p>
<p>IPS: You have written the lyrics of the Poverty Requiem, to be performed by orchestras and choirs in several countries on Oct. 17. In what ways do you think singing can make a difference?</p>
<p>SB: The global song against poverty is taken from the Poverty Requiem which I wrote together with composer Peter Maissan. A dance was designed for it by le Grand Cru. We expect it to be performed in 20 countries. In the Netherlands it will be performed outside parliament, and in Maastricht and Heerenveen (both in the Netherlands), with a choir of more than 700 people. Last Friday we heard that the global song will be done in 16 places in India.</p>
<p>The Poverty Requiem is very moving, and connects the audience at an emotional level to the daily realities of poverty. And even more important: anyone can sing it, and anyone who does can&#8217;t get the music and the lyrics out of their head. It is a piece written for four choirs, two soloists, and dancers, and we have found that some people come again and again to sing it in different performances around the country.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39567" title="Interview with Sylvia Borren">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>My Editor, about my book</title>
		<link>http://www.mirengutierrez.com/2007/10/08/my-editor-about-my-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Hoy habla Nacho Fernández, de la editorial Literaturas.com, sobre el libro La ciudad de las cigarras, de Miren Gutiérrez:
¿Cómo llegó este libro a tus manos?
Me lo envió su autora para que lo promocionara en editoriales españolas.
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<p class="meta"><small><span class="autor"><a href="http://www.jazztelia.com/libros/perfil">libros</a></span>, <span class="fecha">05 Octubre 2007</span> <span class="comentarios"><a href="http://www.jazztelia.com/libros/post/2007/10/05/-panamenismos-convencen#comentarios">0 comentarios</a>, <a href="http://www.jazztelia.com/libros/post/2007/10/05/-panamenismos-convencen#formComentario">escribe el tuyo</a></span> </small></p>
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<p class="tags clearfix"><img width="240" src="http://www.jazztelia.com/myfiles/libros/nachofernandez.jpg" height="180" class="imgizqda" />Hoy habla Nacho Fernández, de la editorial Literaturas.com, sobre el libro La ciudad de las cigarras, de Miren Gutiérrez:</p>
<p class="clearfix">¿Cómo llegó este libro a tus manos?</p>
<p>Me lo envió su autora para que lo promocionara en editoriales españolas.</p>
<p>¿Qué te interesó más? ¿El autor o la obra?</p>
<p>La forma en que estaba contado y unos panameñismos que me parecieron muy estéticos en fusión con el castellano y daba otra sonoridad al texto.</p>
<p>¿Cuál fue la frase que te cautivó definitivamente?</p>
<p>Quizás su titulo La ciudad de las cigarras, contenía elementos muy atractivos para saber a que ciudad se refería y todo el submundo que podía aguantar ese término.</p>
<p>¿Por qué hay que comprar este libro?</p>
<p>Es la primera obra de la autora Miren Gutiérrez, una buena periodista que conoce muy bien el mundo de las finanzas y a los ladrones de cuello blanco. Es posible que por la intriga con que está narrado y el desenlace final pudiera ser una buena excusa para llevarse el libro a casa.</p>
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<p><em><strong>Algunos viernes, habla el editor</strong></em></p>
<p><em>He pensado: ¿Por qué tiene que ser alguien ajeno a la edición de la obra quien opine sobre un libro? Quiero saber qué pasa por la mente del editor cuando publica un libro. Quiero entender por qué empeña su dinero en publicar a un autor. Quiero dejar que la voz del editor independiente se escuche.</em></p>
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		<title>New Article: &#8220;Just Keeping the Achievements of Democracy Means a Daily Struggle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mirengutierrez.com/2007/09/26/new-article-just-keeping-the-achievements-of-democracy-means-a-daily-struggle/</link>
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Q&#38;A: &#8220;Just Keeping the Achievements of Democracy Means a Daily Struggle&#8221;
Interview with Gustavo Gorriti, President of Instituto Prensa y Sociedad


 Gustavo Gorriti




ROME, Sep 25 (IPS) - With former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos in jail, Peru faces a new era. How did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There it is my new article on democracy in Peru.</p>
<p><span class="marron_titulo_big">Q&amp;A:</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39398"><span class="marron_titulo_big">&#8220;Just Keeping the Achievements of Democracy Means a Daily Struggle&#8221;</span><br />
</a><span class="marron">Interview with Gustavo Gorriti, President of Instituto Prensa y Sociedad</span></p>
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<strong>ROME, Sep 25 (IPS) - With former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos in jail, Peru faces a new era. How did it come to happen, and what is in store?</strong></span><span class="texto1">IPS Editor-in-Chief Miren Gutierrez speaks with Gustavo Gorriti about the unprecedented decision of the Chilean Supreme Court to extradite Fujimori, who was president 1990-2000, and its significance.</p>
<p>Gorriti, an award-winning investigative journalist, covered Peru&#8217;s internal war in the eighties. He followed former head of intelligence service Vladimiro Montesinos&#8217;s career since 1983 &#8212; Montesinos was the source of Fujimori&#8217;s power, and his downfall. It was his actions that led to the allegations of murder and drug trafficking.</p>
<p>Gorriti is author of &#8216;The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru&#8217; and the recent &#8216;Calavera en Negro&#8217; (Skull in Black). He is columnist for Caretas newspaper and president of Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, a Latin American association that promotes independent journalism and freedom of expression. He was earlier associate director of Panama&#8217;s La Prensa newspaper, and co-director of Peru&#8217;s La Republica.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of Fujimori&#8217;s dissolving the Peruvian Congress in 1992 and seizing wide powers, a coup as it came to be called even though Fujimori was president already, Gorriti was kidnapped, and held in the Intelligence Service area of the Pentagonito, the army headquarters, where so many others were tortured and killed. Because of an international outcry, he was finally released.</p>
<p>IPS: This is the first time in history that a court orders the extradition of a former head of state to be tried for human rights violations and corruption in his home country. Fujimori&#8217;s extradition also means that all the main public servants involved in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres are arrested. (The Barrios Altos massacre took place in the Peru suburb of that name Nov. 3, 1991; 15 were killed by a death squad of the Peruvian armed forces. In the La Cantuta massacre, a professor and nine others from Lima&#8217;s La Cantuta university were abducted and &#8216;disappeared&#8217; by a military death squad). Do you feel somehow vindicated?</p>
<p>Gustavo Gorriti: Fujimori&#8217;s extradition doesn&#8217;t vindicate me. It means that justice has, so far, been partially served. It also somehow closes an extraordinary period in our history filled with incredible paradoxes, ironies and twists of fate. Its lessons are that consistent action in defence of democracy and human rights, while exposing the crimes of tyrants will in due time end up with a similar scenario as the one we have in Peru: with Montesinos and Fujimori in jail, facing the results of their past misdeeds.</p>
<p>As for me, it has been a long road fraught with the kind of conflict and peril no journalist should have to face. Do I feel any kind of elation now? None at all. It took too long, most of the time uphill. It cost too much to many people and to the country as a whole. Much was lost, and will never be recovered. We&#8217;ll have to make sure that our democracy becomes unassailable to the Montesinos and the Fujimoris of the world, and severe measures may have to be taken. But there is no joy in it. At least, I don&#8217;t feel any.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39398"><font color="#909d73">Read more…</font></a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=42302" title="La democracia se construye día a día"><font color="#909d73">Artículo en español…</font></a></p>
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		<title>My last article &#8220;Shipping Still At Sea&#8221;</title>
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Interview with David Cockroft, Int&#8217;l Transport Workers&#8217; Federation




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David Cockroft




ROME, Sep 3 (IPS) - A first officer&#8217;s certificate to navigate a ship and deputise for captain. No training, no skills. Price, 4,500 dollars. David Cockroft sent shock waves through the shipping business when he bought that certificate back in [...]]]></description>
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</a><span class="marron">Interview with David Cockroft, Int&#8217;l Transport Workers&#8217; Federation</span></p>
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<strong>ROME, Sep 3 (IPS) - A first officer&#8217;s certificate to navigate a ship and deputise for captain. No training, no skills. Price, 4,500 dollars. David Cockroft sent shock waves through the shipping business when he bought that certificate back in 2001 to show corruption in shipping registries.</strong></span><span class="texto1">Cockroft&#8217;s campaign to protect seafarers and promote the shipping industry has continued since then. In an interview with IPS in 2004, the British champion of seafarers worldwide spoke of his efforts to counter the negative effects of U.S. legislation introduced after Sep. 11, 2001. And that was not the last of the challenges. Now he has taken up the environmental issue after Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Efthimios E. Mitropoulos declared that environment is the main issue facing maritime transport today.</span><span class="texto1">IPS Editor-in-Chief Miren Gutierrez spoke to Cockroft, now Secretary-General of the International Transport Workers&#8217; Federation, ahead of World Maritime Day, Sep. 27.</p>
<p>IPS: You have been the ITF Secretary-General since 1994 and outlived four consecutive congresses, the last one in Durban. What has changed in the world of seafarers since you started, and with the Flags of Convenience (a foreign flag under which a vessel is registered in order to reduce operating costs and avoid regulations)?</p>
<p>David Cockroft: The world of seafarers has changed a great deal since 1994, and so has the ITF. We have strengthened our global presence in defence of seafarers rights in ports all over the world so that substandard ship owners know that there is a growing chance that an ITF union somewhere will provide support for exploited seafarers. At the same time we have established a strong dialogue with decent ship owners and managers who have an interest in maintaining standards.</p>
<p>When I attended my first ITF Congress as General Secretary in Geneva in 1994, there were fewer than 2,000 Flag of Convenience (FOC) ships under ITF agreement &#8212; and the number was falling. Today there are more than 8,000 and rising. And more than half of those ships are covered by the world&#8217;s first globally bargained collective agreement within the framework of the International Bargaining Forum.</p>
<p>Of course, the other major change in the world of seafarers is that they are currently in very short supply. The number of cases of exploitation and abandonment of seafarers has fallen drastically, but not because ship owners have all suddenly become paragons of virtue, but because freight rates are at a historical peak due to the continued growth of export/import based economies, particularly China.</p>
<p>Skilled seafarers at present can virtually name their own salaries. Everyone connected with the industry knows that this cannot go on for ever. At some stage there will be a major downturn and suddenly &#8212; as previously &#8212; there will be a glut of tonnage chasing a declining market.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39123" title="Shipping Still At Sea">Read more&#8230;</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=42065" title="Marineros tienen quién los defienda ">Artículo en español&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>A new presentation of my book has been announced</title>
		<link>http://www.mirengutierrez.com/2007/08/27/a-new-presentation-of-my-book-has-been-announced/</link>
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A new presentation of my book has been announced. The cultural association Donostia Kultura has organised a conference in San Sebastian, Spain, on December 16, Tuesday, at 19:30, at the Biblioteca Municipal Central, at Alderdi Eder, tel. 943 48 14 88. About 50 members of the association will be able to ask questions and share [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia" lang="EN-GB">A new presentation of my book has been announced. The cultural association <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bibliotecaspublicas.es/generico/agenda.jsp?sedeweb=87&amp;agenda_mes=11&amp;agenda_year=2007&amp;agenda_dia=21&amp;pw=0" title="Donostia Kultura.">Donostia Kultura </a>has organised a conference in San Sebastian, <country w:st="on"></country>Spain, on December 16, Tuesday, at 19:30, at the <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia">Biblioteca Municipal Central, at </span></strong>Alderdi Eder, tel. <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia">943 48 14 88</span></strong>. About 50 members of the association will be able to ask questions and share their views on the book, which will be presented by Beatriz Monreal. For more information, write to <a href="mailto:liburutegia_alderdieder@donostia.org">liburutegia_alderdieder@donostia.org</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia" lang="EN-GB">By the way, many people have asked me how to buy my book through the Internet. If you are interested, click on <a target="_blank" href="http://literaturascomlibros.blogspot.com/2007/03/la-ciudad-de-las-cigarras-de-miren.html" title="To buy the book.">this</a>.</p>
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A bit late, but I&#8217;d like to share some photos of the party organised by Planeta publishing house last month.
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<p>A bit late, but I&#8217;d like to share some photos of the party organised by Planeta publishing house last month.</p>
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		<title>More news about the Panama presentation of La Ciudad de las Cigarras</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panamá América: Presentan Novela
In August, I presented my book in Panama, where the real facts in which it is based took place.






Recientemente la autora Mirien Gutiérre, presentó su novela &#8220;La Ciudad de las Cigarras&#8221;, basada en una investigación periodística.
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<p align="left">In August, I presented my <a target="_blank" href="http://literaturascomlibros.blogspot.com/2007/03/la-ciudad-de-las-cigarras-de-miren.html" title="To buy the book">book </a>in Panama, where the real facts in which it is based took place.</p>
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<p align="justify">Recientemente la autora Mirien Gutiérre, presentó su novela &#8220;La Ciudad de las Cigarras&#8221;, basada en una investigación periodística.</p>
<p align="justify">La actividad se llevó a cabo con el auspicio de El Hombre de la Mancha, CELAP y Editorial Literaturas.</p>
<p align="justify">En la imagen Gilberto Arias, Miren Gutiérrez y Dilmar Rosas.</p>
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<td bgColor="#e2e9f6" width="280"><strong><font size="-2" color="#4a73af" face="Verdana">Judy De León y Rolando Rodríguez.<br />
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRIMERA NOVELA. MIREN GUTIÉRREZ.
El mundo de las cigarras

La periodista Mónica Palm, quien presentó la obra, opinó que el texto habla de ‘como unas cuantas cigarras se aprovechan de 3 millones de hormigas que trabajan arduamente’.
La noche de la presentación se vendieron todos los libros de la autora, según informó la administración de la librería El [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-transform: uppercase" class="texto_pie_bold">PRIMERA <a target="_blank" href="http://literaturascomlibros.blogspot.com/2007/03/la-ciudad-de-las-cigarras-de-miren.html" title="Buy the book.">NOVELA</a>. MIREN GUTIÉRREZ.</p>
<h2><span class="interno_tit"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2007/07/28/hoy/vivir/1062728.html" title="Read the article.">El mundo de las cigarras</a></strong></span></h2>
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<p class="Sumario">La periodista Mónica Palm, quien presentó la obra, opinó que el texto habla de ‘como unas cuantas cigarras se aprovechan de 3 millones de hormigas que trabajan arduamente’.</p>
<p class="Sumario">La noche de la presentación se vendieron todos los libros de la autora, según informó la administración de la librería El Hombre de la Mancha. Su costo es de 19.95 dólares.</p>
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<p><span style="text-transform: uppercase" class="autor"><strong>Shelmar Vásquez Sween</strong></span><br />
<span class="mail"><a href="mailto:svasquez@prensa.com">svasquez@prensa.com</a></span>
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<p class="texto">Entre anécdotas, risas y un cálido ambiente de familiaridad Miren Gutiérrez presentó la noche del jueves en El Hombre de la Mancha de Multiplaza su primera novela: <strong>La Ciudad de las Cigarras</strong>. Una historia que refleja uno de los trabajos de investigación periodística que realizó la autora mientras laboró por cinco años (1997-2003) en la sección de &#8220;Economía&#8221; del diario La Prensa.</p>
<p class="texto">Entre hechos reales y ficción Miren Gutiérrez trata de exponer la telaraña que envuelve al blanqueo de dinero, a través de lo que vivió dándole seguimiento al caso de Marc Harris, uno de los mayores blanqueadores del Caribe, quien ahora paga en una prisión de Miami una condena de 17 años por evasión fiscal y lavado de dinero.</p>
<p class="texto">Este peculiar personaje en la obra es recreado con el nombre Marc Morris, y, como ella misma comenta, no hizo ningún esfuerzo para tratar de encubrir la identidad de quien fue su musa. Paralelo introduce una figura fugaz, un padre que usa solo para que deje en el aire un secreto que deberá ser descubierto por la protagonista de la novela, Amaya Luna, con la ayuda de un grupo de periodistas que trabaja con ella. &#8220;Estos podríamos ser yo o el grupo de colegas que me acompañaban, entre ellos Gustavo Gorriti y Mónica Palm&#8221;.</p>
<p class="texto">Miren Gutiérrez, quien ahora es la jefa de la agencia de noticias internacional IPS, que publica a 370 periodistas en 330 lugares del mundo, expresó que además de plantear en su obra un tema crudo y escabroso como la estafa, busca la manera de realzar la belleza de los paisajes panameños, su suculenta gastronomía y además introduce una historia de amor. &#8220;Todo lo cuento con el mismo sentido del humor que me caracteriza&#8221;.</p>
<p class="texto">Según nos cuenta la escritora, su novela demuestra cómo en la vida de un periodista que cubre las mismas áreas, las caras de la corrupción desaparecen y aparecen, al igual que las historias entre ellos se entrecruzan. Por ejemplo, indicó que en un momento de la investigación que adelantaba se reveló que Vladimiro Montesinos, mano derecha del ex presidente Alberto Fujimori, tenía relación con Harris. Y también salieron a relucir nombres tan conocidos como Enron Corporation, empresa de energía con sede en Houston, Texas, que quebró en 2001.</p>
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Elle magazine recommends my book for this summer. In the box &#8220;Women Rarities&#8221; it says: They publish in small publishing houses and their books are fascinating. Do you want to meet them? French Judith Brouste analyses the remains of a family in Después de Shanghai, Marion Copeland explains in Cucaracha how interesting that beetle is. [...]]]></description>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.elle.orange.es/" title="Elle en español">Elle </a>magazine recommends my book for this summer. In the box &#8220;Women Rarities&#8221; it says: They publish in small publishing houses and their books are fascinating. Do you want to meet them? French Judith Brouste analyses the remains of a family in Después de Shanghai, Marion Copeland explains in Cucaracha how interesting that beetle is. Meanwhile, Miren Gutierrez deals with corruption in Panama in La Ciudad de las Cigarras. Lucía Montojo takes us to Ibiza with Pasaje de Vuelta.</p>
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<p> To buy the book, click on <a target="_blank" href="http://literaturascomlibros.blogspot.com/2007/03/la-ciudad-de-las-cigarras-de-miren.html" title="Buy the book.">this</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My international seminar is been announced at the IJNet. Correspondents and editors of international sections are invited to participate in a seminar scheduled for July 27 and 28 in Panama. The idea is for participants to think critically about global issues and apply them to local interest. The seminar has been advertised also at Periodistas-es, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My international seminar is been announced at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&amp;ID=306454&amp;LID=1" title="IJNet">IJNet</a>. <span>Correspondents and editors of international sections are invited to participate in a seminar scheduled for July 27 and 28 in Panama. The idea is for participants to think critically about global issues and apply them to local interest. The seminar has been advertised also at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.periodistas-es.org/pes/artigo.asp?cod_artigo=1468" title="Periodistas-es">Periodistas-es</a>, a portal for Spanish journalists.</span></p>
<p><span>The Latin American Journalism Center (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.celap.net/" title="CELAP">CELAP</a>, in Spanish) is organizing the training. The editor-in-chief of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency will lead the seminar. For registration or more information, contact <a href="mailto:dilmar@celap.net">dilmar@celap.net</a> or visit (in Spanish).</span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.celap.net/proximoseventos.htm" title="Seminar on International Journalism">Seminar on international reporting</a> that I am organising in Panama, on July 27 and 28, has been officially announced by CELAP, the centre who is inviting me. Dilmar Rosas, <a href="mailto:dilmarrosas@celap.com">dilmarrosas@celap.com</a>, is the person to talk to if you are interested. Below you&#8217;ll find more information, in Spanish, about its objectives and programme.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; color: #333399">Este seminario está diseñado para proporcionar a sus participantes ideas concretas y planes sobre cómo maximizar la cobertura internacional desde dos extremos: tanto del que dirige una sección internacional de un medio como del que es corresponsal extranjero. Asimismo, ofrecerá experiencias prácticas de lo que es investigar, escribir, editar y publicar notas que expliquen una cultura a otra diferente. Tratará de asuntos como los rigores del trabajo del corresponsal extranjero y cómo sacar máximo provecho de Internet, con discusión de casos concretos. El seminario enfatizará la reflexión crítica sobre asuntos globales y la producción de notas vivas que ilustren la complejidad de otras realidades de forma global, pero apelando al interés local.</span></p>
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Miren Gutiérrez: “Un buen periodista de investigación debe tener un punto de paranoico”

Entre Hong Kong, Nueva York, Panamá y medios como El País o The Wall Street Journal Americas, la periodista Miren Gutiérrez ha logrado convertirse en una verdadera todoterreno. Actualmente, ejerce de editora [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The interview that ÍñigoHeras did for PeriodistaAudioDigital appears now at <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.periodistadigital.com/laexclusiva.php" title="Periodista Digital, Entrevista">Periodista Digital</a>.</p>
<p class="post-body"><strong><span style="font-size: 130%"><font size="4">ENTREVISTA</font></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #000099"><font size="4"><strong>Miren Gutiérrez:</strong> <strong>“Un buen periodista de investigación debe tener un punto de paranoico”</strong></font></span><em><br />
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<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0t_sI0NgYhE/RmxvMPWYBII/AAAAAAAAAGE/MPy6Ubps3jA/s1600-h/presentaci_n8_sevilla.jpg"><font size="4"><img border="0" width="226" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0t_sI0NgYhE/RmxvMPWYBII/AAAAAAAAAGE/MPy6Ubps3jA/s320/presentaci_n8_sevilla.jpg" height="158" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 226px; cursor: hand; height: 158px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074553136209200258" /></font></a>Entre Hong Kong, Nueva York, Panamá y medios como El País o The Wall Street Journal Americas, la periodista Miren Gutiérrez ha logrado convertirse en una verdadera todoterreno. Actualmente, ejerce de editora jefe de la agencia IPS en Roma. Estos días presenta en varios escenarios su primera novela, <em>La ciudad de las cigarras</em>, que cuenta con Marc Harris, el mayor blanqueador de dinero del Caribe, y con la historia de una gran estafa que Amaia Luna y su grupo de periodistas deberán investigar. La historia ha surgido de la propia investigación que la periodista desarrolló durante sus años de trabajo en el diario panameño <em>La prensa</em>.</p>
<p><strong>¿Eres de las que piensa que todo periodismo debe ser de investigación?</strong></p>
<p>No existe el periodismo sin investigación; lo demás es propaganda, relaciones públicas, publicidad. Pero es verdad que existe una especialidad conocida como periodismo de investigación. Éste implica una investigación dirigida a revelar información relevante que un poderoso –ya sea un gobierno o una organización de cualquier tipo— quiere mantener secreta. Este tipo de periodismo es obviamente más arduo y difícil.</p>
<p><strong>¿Cómo valoras el ejercicio de la profesión en Italia y qué diferencias aprecias con respecto al español?</strong></p>
<p>En Italia existe buen periodismo. Se puede destacar, por ejemplo, el trabajo de investigación de la revista L´Espresso, con periodistas como Leo Sisti, que han destapado asuntos de corrupción, terrorismo y crimen organizado. Hay periodistas valientes que están publicando libros sobre la mafia, como Roberto Saviano. Pero, más que el problema del sensacionalismo (que también se da en España posiblemente en igual medida), destacaría los problemas de censura que los medios, especialmente la televisión, han sufrido con el gobierno de Berlusconi, como en los casos de los periodistas Michele Santoro y Enzo Biagi. Eso ha dejado secuelas que el gobierno de Prodi todavía no ha subsanado. Sin embargo, creo que, en general, tanto en España como en Italia el periodismo de investigación es anémico y poco frecuente.</p>
<p><strong>¿Crees en el periodismo de denuncia? ¿Piensas que está reservado solo a unos pocos privilegiados?</strong></p>
<p>Creo firmemente en el periodismo de denuncia, siempre y cuando venga acompañado de los hechos, confirmados, verificados y bien expuestos. Y sí, por desgracia está destinado a unos pocos: por un lado, toma mucho tiempo, esfuerzo y talento de parte de escritores y editores; por otro, no todos los medios son los suficientemente valientes o libres como para publicarlo. Afortunadamente, ahora, con los blogs, uno puede dedicarse a esto (si tiene el tiempo, el dinero y el talento) y hacerlo público sin depender de los medios tradicionales. Con Internet, una de las dos limitaciones, la del medio, desaparece.</p>
<p><strong>Marc Harris sería todo un personaje por explorar y seguramente habrá asuntos que no habrás podido incluir en “La ciudad de las cigarras”…</p>
<p></strong>Marc Harris es todo un personaje desde distintos puntos de vista, incluyendo el psiquiátrico&#8230; Pero no, en mi novela he incluido todos los asuntos que he creído relevantes sin restricciones, así como hicimos con las investigación periodística en que está basada. Para escribir este relato de ficción me sentí completamente libre para hablar de todo; incluso más, porque me inventé y recreé con absoluta libertad.</p>
<p><strong>¿Cómo surgió la idea de investigar el blanqueo de dinero en Panamá? ¿Fue algo fortuito o pensaste desde el principio escribir la novela?<br />
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Una cosa fue la investigación periodística de este caso, uno de los mayores, si no el mayor, de blanqueo de dinero en el Caribe. Y otra, la novela, que está basada en aquellos hechos. La idea de investigar el dinero sucio en Panamá surgió, no como idea, sino como necesidad, como resultado del lugar y de la circunstancia. Se trata de un importante centro bancario internacional, la segunda mayor zona libre del mundo, una ruta comercial marítima de vital importancia&#8230; El blanqueo es un fenómeno que no podíamos dejar de investigar como periodistas financieros. La novela surgió mucho después. Nunca me imaginé, cuando investigaba a Marc Harris, que la escribiría.</p>
<p><strong>¿Cuál es la principal herramienta que un periodista debe tener en cuenta a la hora de mezclar investigación y ficción?<br />
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Para empezar, tener muy claro qué está haciendo. En el periodismo no cabe la ficción. Uno puede utilizar las técnicas narrativas de la literatura, pero todos los hechos que narra son hechos relevantes y confirmados. En la ficción, esas ataduras no existen. Como escritor de ficción, uno lidia con hechos (verdaderos o no), con las herramientas de la creatividad, de la composición y del lenguaje.</p>
<p><strong>Sería apasionante descubrir, en plena investigación, que nombres como el de Vladimiro Montesinos tenían relación con Marc Harris…<br />
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Apasionante sí, pero poco sorprendente. Al final este tipo de coincidencias era tan frecuente que teníamos callo&#8230; La realidad es más increíble que la ficción.</p>
<p><strong>En el libro, a pesar de la dureza de los acontecimientos, fuiste valiente e introdujiste el humor…</strong></p>
<p>No concibo ficción ni realidad sin humor. Quizá es un recurso para alejarse de la dureza de los acontecimientos, quizá una tara&#8230; No sólo me reí escribiendo el libro; en la realidad, los que investigamos a Marc Harris tuvimos momentos de desternillarnos de risa, con lágrimas en los ojos.</p>
<p><strong>¿Qué aspectos valoras especialmente a la hora de investigar?</strong></p>
<p>Si preguntas por qué cualidades debe tener un buen periodista de investigación, diría que debe ser inteligente, sistemático y trabajador, tener tesón, debe saber hacer correlaciones y preguntas, debe poder identificar patrones de comportamiento en situaciones complejas, debe saber de números y escribir bien, y debe tener un punto de paranoico, por su seguridad.</p>
<p><strong>EFE, Hong Kong, Latin Finance, La Prensa, El Mundo, The Wall Street Journal Americas… Son ya muchos años de experiencia y muchos los escenarios, ¿es sano que la carrera de un/a periodista cambie? ¿En qué aspectos te ha enriquecido a ti?</strong></p>
<p>Me parece no sano, supersano. A mí esta experiencia me ha ayudado a saber moverme en situaciones diversas y a escribir para muy distintas audiencias. Sin embargo, también creo que es necesaria la especialización. Los mejores periodistas, gente como Seymour Hersh o Gustavo Gorriti, con quien tuve la suerte de trabajar en Panamá, son gente obsesionada con uno o dos temas, que acumula una montaña de conocimientos, de historia, de fuentes, de citas, de correlaciones, y que ve más que otros.</p>
<p><strong>¿Tienes en mente algún nuevo proyecto literario o de momento prefieres dedicarte a IPS?<br />
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Tengo muchos proyectos, primero porque creo que también IPS se beneficia de lo que pueda lograr como escritora de ficción o como conferencista o como lo que sea. Entre otras cosas, estoy escribiendo una continuación de La Ciudad de las Cigarras, o más bien un nuevo caso de Amaia Luna, por supuesto basándome en otra truculenta y verdadera investigación periodística. También estoy haciendo un doctorado en nuevas tecnologías y periodismo, y dando charlas por el mundo. No me quejo.</p>
<p><strong>Para terminar, un consejo a los jóvenes periodistas que se debaten entre la suerte o acabar trabajando en prensa rosa…<br />
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Yo siempre les digo lo mismo: salid, mejor si es fuera de España, y husmead.</p>
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<p><em><strong>Miren Gutiérrez</strong> ( Pamplona, 1967) llegó a Hong Kong en 1990 para comenzar su carrera periodística como corresponsal de la Agencia EFE en la región de Asia-Pacífico. Nueva York, Panamá y Roma han sido sus otros destinos, desde los que ha escrito para El País, El Mundo, Diario 16 y The Wall Street Journal Americas, las revistas Gatopardo, The Nation y Latin Finance, y la agencia de noticias UPI. Durante cinco años, estuvo a cargo de la sección económica del diario panameño La Prensa. Actualmente, es editora jefe de la agencia de noticias internacional Inter Press Service.<br />
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<strong>La ciudad de las cigarras</strong> puede adquirirse en Madrid, en las librerías Estudio en Escarlata y Librería Méndez y en San Sebastián, en la Librería Lagun.</p>
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