Swinging from the Right: Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador
Civil society organizations in Ecuador say that President Rafael Correa’s 21st Century Socialism favors powerful economic groups and bodes poorly for Ecuador’s most-excluded. […]
Month: May 2009
Compañero Obama? Obama Mends Fences with Latin America
When Barack Obama attended the Summit of the Americas, leftist Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wanted to shake his hand, the right-wing president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, asked for his autograph and the anti-imperialist book Open Veins of Latin America made an unlikely journey to the White House. What does the April Summit of the Americas say about the past and future of U.S.-Latin American relations? […]
Oaxaca: Police Raid Communities around Trinidad Mine
Fear of environmental contamination and dwindling water resources are motivating a nearly two-month-long permanent civilian occupation of Canadian-owned Trinidad Mine in San José del Progreso, Mexico and all its installations. […]
Paraguay: Protestas y balas de goma por el retorno al país de Sabino Montanaro
Traducido por Angel Ricardo Martinez BenoitPublicado en La Estrella de Panama El día del trabajo en Paraguay estuvo marcado por el retorno al país de Sabino Montanaro, ‘mano derecha’ del dictador Stroessner, después de 20 […]
What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left – Oswaldo Natarén
This is Part Three of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”
Oswaldo Natarén is an artist, activist, and co-founder of the University Front of Roque Dalton (FURD), a leftist student group at the National University of El Salvador (UES).
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Advice for Obama from South America
Source: Yes Magazine The Institute for Policy Studies invited Latin American and Caribbean civil society leaders to share their recommendations for transforming the U.S. government’s relationship with the hemisphere. Fourteen diverse leaders from 11 countries […]
Bolivia: Plan 3000 – Resistance and Social Change at the Heart of Racism
Source: Americas Program In the middle of a racist city of white elites, the nucleus of the agro-export oligarchy, Plan 3000 is an immense and poor suburb of almost 300,000 inhabitants mostly of Aymara, Quechua, […]
Summit of the Americas: Behind the Smiles and Handshakes
Source: NACLA With all that happened at the Summit of the Americas, it was easy to miss a significant about-face by the Obama administration. No, it wasn’t the administration’s supposedly softer stance toward Cuba. Nor […]