Buenos Aires In the world of “let no good deed go unpunished,” Drummond Pike, founder and chief of Tides and an old and dear companero and comrade, found himself in the New York Times Sunday edition. He is down steering a raft through the rapids and still waters of the Colorado River in the upper …
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Bogota Buses
Mexico City The subway has been a pleasant surprise in Mexico City. We took Linea 2 up to the Zocalo on Saturday night so the leaders could see the heart of the city and then walked back through the Alameda to the hotel. Victor Torres, the head organizer of Mexico City ACORN, says that …
Biggest and Best NGOs
Moscow It is hard to imagine Sergey Tsyplenkov and Valentina Melnikova in the same room much less in the same sentence, but after meetings with each of them on two different days in Moscow they are linked in my mind as the creme of the non-profit crop in Moscow despite their differences. Sergey …