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.
Source: Jacobin The Bolivarian Revolution hasn’t been perfect, but it’s improved the lives of millions in the face of violent opposition. In many ways, Hugo Chávez’s legacy is at stake on December 6. An opposition […]
While Brazil has never officially suffered from a terrorist attack, at the moment the Brazilian congress is debating a counter-terrorism bill that could create further justification for the criminalization of social movements and popular protest.
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