The killings of environmental and land rights activists worldwide has tripled over the past decade. The death rate is now an average of more than four per week. Almost none of the killers have faced charges. Front Line Defenders has learned with great sadness and concern about the killing of land and environment defender Joanna Stutchbury, who died on Thursday, 15 July 2021. Initial reports indicate that the woman human right defender was fatally shot in the afternoon as she returned to her home on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. In the global resource wars, “those people” appear as expendable shadow beings, weighing almost nothing in the grand scheme of things. We are witnessing an epidemic of environmental martyrdom, particularly in earth’s vital but embattled tropical forests.

Nature defenders murdered in record numbers, environmental rights group says

A record 227 people were killed worldwide in 2020 for their defense of nature -- more than four a week on average, and almost three-quarters of them in Latin America, environmental rights organization Global Witness said Sunday.

Sept. 13.– For the second year in a row, Colombia was the country with the highest number of killings -- 65 -- while Nicaragua had the highest per-capita rate, with 12 murders up from five in 2019, the group said in its annual report.

Servicio Secreto de EE.UU. comparte fotos “nunca antes vistas” de los atentados del 11/S

Washington DC, Sept. 10.– A través de su cuenta de Twitter, el Servicio Secretp también anunció la difusión de entrevistas inéditas de “empleados actuales y anteriores del Servicio Secreto que reflexionan sobre el 11 de septiembre y que honrarán las vidas perdidas, incluido Craig L. Miller”, el único agente de la institución que murió en los ataques de Al Qaeda.

Triple Frontera: Encuentro de jóvenes para implementar el Sínodo de la Amazonia

Poblado en la Amazonia Ciudad del Vaticano, Ago. 20.– La Red Eclesial Panamazónica, a través de su Eje Iglesia en Fronteras, organizó el Encuentro de Liderazgo Juvenil de la Triple Frontera: Brasil, Perú y Colombia, con el fin de buscar proyectos comunes, y descubrir que es posible superar las fronteras físicas, imaginarias y culturales.

49 jóvenes y 14 adultos de las Vicarías de San José del Amazonas (Perú), Leticia (Colombia) y la Diócesis de Alto Solimões (Brasil), en representación de 12 comunidades, se reunieron en la ciudad de Leticia en busca de proyectos comunes, descubriendo que es posible superar las fronteras físicas, imaginarias y culturales, en el Encuentro de Liderazgo Juvenil de la Triple Frontera, evento organizado por el Eje Iglesia en Fronteras de la Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM), el pasado sábado 14 de agosto de 2021.

Gold is the most logical choice for a medium of exchange for goods and services. The metal is abundant enough to create coins but rare enough so that not everyone can produce them. Gold doesn't corrode, providing a sustainable store of value, and humans are physically and emotionally drawn to it. Societies and economies have placed value on gold, thus perpetuating its worth. Gold is the metal we'll all fall back on when other forms of currency don't work, which means that gold will always have value in tough as well as good times. 

What Makes Gold so Great?

Aug.27.– Gold has long been considered the king of metals, but why? What makes this lustrous material so alluring? Why does it remain so valuable?

From a purely practical standpoint, gold has a lot of desirable properties.