Articles by Upside Down World
Guatemalan War Widows Keep Weaving and Their Community Alive
Source: Cultural Survival In the 1980s the women of Guatemala’s department of Sololá, in the Canton Pujujil region on the edge of Lake Atitlán, watched as their community slowly disintegrated under the pressures of the […]
El último desafío de Castro
06/08/06 Sin Permiso "Las variables son muchas, y las posibles combinaciones, todavía más. Son aún más indescifrables dada la descollante personalidad de Fidel, quien, júzguesele como se le juzgue, ha sido uno de los últimos […]
El Salvadoran Troops in Iraq
El Salvadoran President Tony Saca gave a send off to 380 troops of the Seventh Cuscatlan Battalion as they shipped off for Iraq on August 12. The small country remains the only in Latin American […]
América Latina Ahora: Entrevista con Raúl Zibechi
En este entrevista, Zibechi habla de los desafios del gobierno de Evo Morales en Bolivia, el poder y papel de los movimientos sociales en este pais, proyectos de integracion regional como el Tratado de Comercio […]
Cubans express hope for peace and stability
Cubans are using religious expression to express their desires for peace and stability in the wake of President Fidel Castro’s illness and the temporary transfer of power to his brother, Raúl Castro, reports Patricia Grogg […]
Brazilian Immigrants Recognized in Portugal
A new Immigration Law passed by the Council of Ministers in Portugal on August 10 could help legalize some of the over 500,000 foreign workers in the country. Symbolically, August 10th was also the date […]