Articles by Upside Down World
Resurgence of Indigenous Identity in the Crossfire in Brazil
(IPS) – The powerful tractors and other farm machinery that landowners recently used to block roads at a dozen points from north to south in Brazil illustrated the economic clout of big agriculture, which rose […]
Protests roil Brazil despite fare rollback
Source: Al Jazeera Protesters clash with police even after two biggest cities reverse increase in bus and subway fares. Protesters in Brazil have continued to clash with police, even after authorities in two of the […]
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers – Book Review
If there is a sacred cow grazing in the fertile pasture of Mexican writing about the drug war, Los Señores del Narco is it. Written by investigative journalist Anabel Hernández and published in Mexico in 2010, it will come out this fall in English as Narcoland.
“El Mauro” Tailings-Dam Pits Community Against the Oligarchy in Chile
For more than 10 years the town of Los Caimanes in Northern Chile has sustained a struggle against the installation of a tailings-dam by Minera Los Pelambres, a subsidiary of Antofagasta Plc, serving nearby and expanding copper and gold mine. Resistance has brought residents into conflict with some of the widest-spanning economic interests in Chile: those of the oligarchic Luksic family. The case is part of a series of resource conflicts that have gained national attention.
Photo Essay: Mexico Celebrates World Day Against Monsanto
On May 25th, 2013, people in over 400 cities on 6 continents participated in the International Day against Monsanto. Over the past six months people all across Mexico have been mobilizing to urge new president Peña-Nieto to not allow the introduction of GMO Crops to the country. In Mexico City, thousands of activists, farmers, academics and ordinary people participated in a Carnival against Monsanto. Marching from the National Palace of Fine Arts to the Monument of the Revolution they celebrated the importance of native corn, the basic sustenance of the Mexican Diet and rejected the new GMO permissions granted to transnational agro-business companies.
How the Correa Government is Neoliberalizing Ecuador’s Mining Legislation
If the mining companies think that the neoliberalization of Ecuador’s mining law will make their work easier, they should think again. Since the communities affected by mining development – especially the indigenous sector – see the reforms as unconstitutional and openly pro-industry, the effect on the ground will be to reignite the anti-mining movement.
João Pedro Stédile of Brazil’s Landless Movement: The Integration of Capital vs. the Integration of Peoples in the Americas
João Pedro Stédile, co-founder and co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil gave the following talk to hundreds of Haitian farmers at the 40th anniversary assembly of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP). […]