Fuente: Programa de las Americas Los resultados electorales en Venezuela y Argentina, la crisis brasileña y el desgaste de la “revolución ciudadana” ecuatoriana, forman parte de un cambio de clima político que coloca a la […]
Source: Roar Magazine Primero de enero 1994. 3:00am. The Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has gone to bed happy that towards the end of his mandate Mexico joins the North American Free Trade Agreement, […]
The January 2010 earthquake provided a perfect opportunity for many to come and do business in Haiti. Even prior to the earthquake, Bill Clinton led the discussion on developing Haiti through corporate investment. President Martelly turned that approach into a credo: “Haiti is open for business.” We understand the pretext for this so-called development. The concept of extraction isn’t very well known in Haiti, but the country has had a long history of pillaging by colonial and imperial powers.
Source: The Guardian Unlimited A Guatemalan investigative journalist named Luis Solano was in Canada last month to launch a report about a Canadian-owned silver mine in south-east Guatemala. The mine, Escobal, began operating last year […]
Source: TeleSUR English This first session of the Parliament aims to create a legislative mechanism through which the people can govern. President of the Venezuelan National Assembly Diosdado Cabello presided Tuesday over the first gathering […]
“The situation in Brazil today is in a very profound economic, social and especially political crisis. […] There are two very important points: one is the left’s opinion that Dilma’s administration is awful, but that a coup represents Brazil’s dominant political elite’s intent to try to eliminate the PT from the government and introduce a right-wing government, similar to the Paraguayan coup not long ago that deposed Lugo.” – Ricardo Atunes, sociologist at the University of Campinas, Brazil
Source: Roar Magazine Cochabamba taught us that the real issue is not the capture of state power, but the creation of new pathways from the grassroots up. In Latin America, the struggle for water as […]
Source: The Nation Even Chavistas are fed up with the economic crisis and want change. But unlike the right, grassroots leaders are calling for more popular control and collective decision-making. Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party […]
A decade-long mining boom has left a string of complications–environmental liabilities, social polarization and loss of governmental legitimacy. Meanwhile it has not resolved a single underlying problem. […]
The gains of South America’s progressive period, won in the halls of power and in the streets, won’t likely be swept aside anytime soon.
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