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  • Latin America | Energy and the environment | Book reviews

    Book Review: Planet of Slums by Mike Davis

    John Perry June 2, 2007April 4, 2021

    If you have ever worried that we might be concreting over south-east England, this book could be a useful antidote.  The problem is not in Greater London.  If anywhere is being concreted over, it’s Mexico City, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and the many other southern cities that have grown tenfold in just fifty years.

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  • Nicaragua

    Election Day in Nicaragua

    John Perry November 6, 2006July 18, 2025

    The phone rang.  It was our neighbour, Magda: ‘When are you going to vote?’ ‘Now, we’ll pick you up’.

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  • Nicaragua | Masaya project updates | Energy and the environment

    What does it feel like having electricity for the first time?

    John Perry December 2, 2005July 18, 2025

    What does it feel like having electricity for the first time?  Idalia Cordoba (see picture) puts it like this.  ‘When you regularly have to get up at 3.00 in the morning, more than two hours before dawn, and poke around looking for things with a little torch, you could be sure that the batteries would…

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  • Nicaragua

    Razed hopes

    John Perry February 3, 1999July 18, 2025

    The recent tragic earthquake in Colombia brought back painfully sharp memories for me of a visit to Nicaragua and the devastated village of Posoltega, buried under an avalanche of mud and stones when Hurricane Mitch ripped across Central America last October.

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John PerryJohn Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he writes about Latin America for the Grayzone, Covert Action, FAIR, London Review of Books, Morning Star and elsewhere, and also works on UK housing and migration issues.

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