The Scorching Summer of Honduras’ “Indignant” Opposition
Let us walk together, my country, I’m with you I’ll climb down whatever chasms you ask me to I’ll drink from your bitter cup I’ll go blind so that you can have eyes I’ll go […]
Articles by Upside Down World
Mexico: A Lesson in Defiance Amid the Carnage
It is difficult to extract anything positive from the carnage that is the recent history of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juárez, but “La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico” attempts to do just that. It does so by focusing on the bravery and resilience of a few determined Mexican women — some living, some dead — who refused, in the words of the eponymous Lucha Castro, “to cooperate further with a patriarchal and unjust system.”
Brazil: Munduruku Indigenous Community Struggle is Stronger than Ever
Introduction by Luísa Molina Letter translation made in a collaborative work (by Daniela Justino, Juan Bogotá and Jeremy Campbell) Coordinated by the “São Paulo Committee of Solidarity to the Tapajós Struggle” In October 2014 the […]
“Extractivism creates a society without subjects”: Raúl Zibechi on Latin American Social Movements
How have power relations within social movements changed since the implementation of government social policies? Why does the extractivist model create a society without subjects, or social actors? In this interview, Raúl Zibechi analyzes the social and economic situation and how it relates to social movements.
Communities struggling against mining win major victory in Guatemala
Source: Waging Non-Violence For three years the communities of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc have struggled against the construction of a gold mine in their communities. The La Puya resistance has maintained […]
Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior
Source: The Nation Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away. Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the […]
El Salvador’s Draconian Abortion Laws: a Miscarriage of Justice
“We are here to speak for them, to call for their release. When there is an injustice, silence is complicity,” said Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch and a decades-long advocate […]
“A Mirror of State Violence”: Ayotzinapa Sees Itself in Brazil’s Favelas and Indigenous Territories
The families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students travelled as the Caravana 43 to multiple cities in the United States, Canada, several countries in Europe, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil to challenge the lies often reproduced about the case and to build solidarity with social movements in their own locale.
Political Economy from the Perspective of the Zapatista Communities
“Before the Zapatista Army for National Liberation was created, we indigenous from Chiapas didn’t exist for the capitalist system; we weren’t people to it; we weren’t human. We didn’t even exist as trash for it. And we imagine that’s how it was for the other indigenous brothers and sisters in the rest of our country. And that’s how we imagine it is in any country where indigenous people exist.” – Subcomandante Moises