Ecuador: Digging Free of Poverty
In Ecuador, the Left is torn between urgent development needs and the costs of natural resource extraction. […]
Year: 2017
Grassroots Action Confronts Impunity Three Years After Ayotzinapa
Official numbers suggest over 30,000 people have been disappeared in Mexico since 2006; victims groups say the actual total could be six to nine times higher. […]
How Manufactured Economic Crisis in Brazil Paved Way for a Soft Coup
History repeats itself: economic destabilization in Brazil to spur a neoliberal conservative revival mirrors similar meddling in Allende’s Chile and present-day Venezuela. […]
Where is Santiago Maldonado? History, Context, and Political Analysis of a Forced Disappearance
In this interview with Amador Fernández-Savater, Diego Sztulwark discusses the Argentinian and international context of Maldonado’s disappearance, as well as its broader political implications. […]
Will Lenin Moreno Champion Food Sovereignty in Ecuador in Ways Rafael Correa Didn’t?
Social movements were disappointed after former President Correa altered land and seed laws in order to permit land grabs and GMOs. […]
Guatemalans Wage Nonviolent Resistance Against Crisis Created by a Criminal State
Indignation is flowing into the streets again in Guatemala, and protesters demand that President Jimmy Morales and his accomplices in Congress put an end to impunity. […]
Brazil’s Left Searches for a Path Out of the Political Crisis
If Brazil’s left aims to be effective beyond electoral purposes, base-building must be paired with politicizing efforts so that the masses can become political subjects, rather than just political objects. […]
Guatemalan Water Protectors Fight to Free Their Rivers
Since Guatemalan law prohibits the unauthorized removal of river water, people in surrounding communities claim that their rivers have been “kidnapped.” But the people are fighting back to free them. […]
Rumbas in the Barrio: Personal Lives in a Venezuelan Collectivist Project
Misión Cultura aimed to “give words, voice, to us, those always silenced” and to build up a popular alternative archive of people’s stories and histories. […]
‘The State is Broken’ in Guatemala and Only Social Movements Can Fix It
Guatemala’s Congress attempted to double down to protect the political elite from being accountable for corruption, but social movements are fighting back. […]