Articles by Upside Down World

Members of Haiti’s rogue army seen here in the town of Saint-Marc.

Haiti’s Military Monster Makes a Creeping Comeback

July 5, 2012 Upside Down World 0

“I am in charge of Haiti!” one excited former soldier in his fifties exclaims. The others laugh on cue, one of them holding a handgun casually by his side. Swinging around to pose for the camera, an older man in fatigues carelessly waves the barrel of his machine gun past me at chest height. Two hours north of Port-au-Prince, in the town of Saint-Marc, we’ve received our first introduction to the 3,000-strong band of military enthusiasts dubbed Haiti’s “rogue” army.

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Argentina: A Decade Without Dario and Maxi

July 5, 2012 Upside Down World 0

You don’t need to have met Dario Santillán to know him. And you should know him. Though notorious for his death, it was his grassroots leadership and solidarity work in his short life that defined him—qualities that live on in the social movements he helped to build.  

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We want Pencils, not Weapons: San Juan Sacatepéquez rejects new Military Brigade in Guatemala

July 2, 2012 Upside Down World 0

During the annual June 30th observance of Guatemalan Armed Forces Day, thousands of people marched in San Juan Sacatepéquez from their rural communities to the central square in rejection to the newly assigned military brigade in the municipality. Solidarity groups from throughout the country supported their resistance against the militarization of their territory and the grave social conflicts created by the cement-mining license approved in 2007 for the powerful Guatemalan Cementos Progreso company.

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