Articles by Upside Down World

Film Review: ‘Revolutionary Medicine – A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital’

September 13, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Rudolf Virchow, a German doctor and one of the founders of social medicine, once stated, “Medicine is politics writ large.” In telling the story of the first Garifuna hospital, Revolutionary Medicine renders this wisdom both tangible and feasible. It should be required viewing for all medical students around the world. And for the rest of us, amongst the increasingly marginalized 99 percent, Revolutionary Medicine should rekindle the oft-forlorn hope of a better, fairer world, in the purest vision of Marx.

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Mayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala

September 11, 2014 Upside Down World 0

On September 4th, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when congress finally repealed the legislation that had been approved in June.

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The Other Side of Human Rights in Argentina

September 10, 2014 Upside Down World 0

The raid took place so quickly and brutally that they didn’t have time to gather their clothes, their tools, their plates and cups, in some cases, not even their IDs. Shanty houses were demolished. Their possessions were destroyed. They are perpetual victims of a State which sends them onto the streets, denies them decent housing – or housing at all – runs them off the land without their belongings so they end up under the bridges.

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The Conservative Restoration in Latin America

September 10, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Since the smooth, level path of military coups, in the style of past decades, is no longer possible, the Right turns to the electoral process, with great publicity apparatus, taking advantage as well of the private communications media as their essential weapon. […]

Uruguay: Guerillas in Government

September 10, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Thirty years after the US-backed military dictatorship in, the Tupamaros – left-wing urban guerillas active in the 1960s and ‘70s – have assumed control of the Uruguayan presidency by being elected to office as part […]

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