(IPS) – Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans. Of course, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished since automotive and tech companies moved their production across […]
Did a bloody confrontation over land rights lead to a coup against the country’s former President Fernando Lugo? Source: Al Jazeera In 2012, Paraguay’s then left-wing President Fernando Lugo was ousted from office after being […]
Harsha Walia carefully outlines her theory of border imperialism, but she doesn’t stop there the way an academic or journalist might. Instead, she dedicates the bulk of the text to reflection and to proposals around what makes for meaningful activism in this context. Undoing Border Imperialism lays out a compelling definition of the concept of border imperialism, and then takes readers through concrete experiences of how it can be challenged and dismantled.
The main challenge in Mexico today is to resist a wave of violence that is dispossessing and oppressing people, and which may precipitate increasingly brutal state repression and even a vicious civil war. At the same time, we need to connect the points of resistance, giving them an organizational form adapted to their nature. What is needed is to build a political force that can stop the ongoing disaster, prevent its continuation, and begin to reorganize society from the bottom-up.
A proposed hydroelectric dam in Rio Blanco has pitted the locals against the police and a private security force. Source: Al Jazeera Rio Blanco, Honduras – Berta Caceres, 42, is anxious to get on the […]
Source: VICE Mexico In Honduras the LGBT movement is not fighting for gay marriage, instead their lives. “Who is going to say, ‘I want to get married’ in this country when they are killing us?” […]
The EZLN is a synthesis, a social process which manages to bring together a wide range of social demands, traditions of struggle, and currents of critical thought present throughout the history of Mexico and the world; at the same time it recovers new approaches relevant to their times.
As manufactures promote the infinite capabilities of domestic drones they are specifically targeting developing markets in Latin America for the martial use of drones in law enforcement and military operations. In response, human rights groups are raising concerns over these fast-evolving technologies, citing the potential for abuse by various state agencies.
(IPS) – The promised structural reforms to modify the political system inherited from Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship and reduce the severe social inequalities in the country propelled Michelle Bachelet to a resounding triumph in the Sunday […]
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