Martín Hopenhayn Credit:Darío Montero/IPS Darío Montero interviews MARTÍN HOPENHAYN, ECLAC’s social development director (IPS) – Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and […]
The history of popular struggle in Bolivia took an unexpected turn when Evo Morales, the candidate of the socialist party (MAS), was elected into office on December 18 2005 as the first indigenous president that the nation, with a majority indigenous population, had seen. Morales, a former union leader for cocaleros – farmers of the coca crop – rose to power on the platform of change. […]
The dense humidity accumulated by violent Pacific currents, crashes brutally against the peaks of the Panimaquín range along the departments of Sololá and Quetzaltenango. Here, generation after generation, day after day, life goes on amidst the clouds. On October 2005, however, nature roared fiercely and the villagers had no choice but to abandon their ancestral lands.
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The unsuspecting governor, smack in the middle of an important press conference, missed being hit by a projectile by mere inches. The projectile? Not a bullet, but an egg. […]
The recent financial crisis has only intensified the already acute post-NAFTA woes of Mexican workers. Last month, the government’s firing of 44,000 electricity workers, members of the county’s most combative and independent union, SME (Mexican Electrical Union), became catalyst for a movement of people deeply angry at both an unfair economic system, and towards a president who, most studies admit, used fraud to win the elections in 2006.
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In Gringo: A Coming-of-Age in Latin America, Chesa Boudin writes of sleeping in a hammock on his way up the Amazon River on a 200 foot boat, working as a translator in Hugo Chavez’s presidential palace, witnessing the rise of President Lula in Brazil and traveling through Argentina during the country’s economic crisis. His reflections and reportage on such experiences provide an exciting road trip through pivotal moments in Latin America’s recent history. […]
Source: Americas Program Tired of waiting for the slow transfer of lands from the state and the always problematic recognition of their rights, dozens of Mapuche communities have begun to mobilize, a process that the […]
On November 11, 2009, over 240 academics and experts on Latin America sent a letter to President Obama urging him to denounce the ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by the coup regime in Honduras ahead […]
Source: Americas Mexico Blog Policy change to recognize elections without reinstatement of Zelaya torpedoes peace agreement, mollifies Republicans and alienates Latin America President Zelaya pronounces Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord a “dead letter” Anti-coup […]
November 12, 2009 From the Committee In Solidarity With the People of El Salvador Dear Friend in Solidarity, Hurricane Ida hit El Salvador on Saturday, devastating the country, especially the capital of San Salvador and the […]
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