Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is the founder of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety and author of "Balada Transgénica", a book about the challenges of biotechnology and globalization. He is also a senior fellow at the Oakland Institute and a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology. Carmelo has written freelance stories for the New York Daily News, Interpress Service, the Native Americas Journal, the IRC Americas Program, Corporate Watch, Alternet, Grist, E Magazine and the Earth Island Journal. He has hosted educational radio and television shows in Vermont and Puerto Rico.