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Chile Rejects Patagonian Dam Project, Environmentalists Hail Victory

June 16, 2014 Upside Down World 0

After eight years of demonstrations and sometimes violent protests, officials rejected the controversial Patagonian dam project last week. The decision halts development of what would have become Chile’s largest energy endeavor in history, the building of five dams in two of South America’s widest rivers along with 1,600 km of power lines through pristine Andean valleys and fjords to carry energy to the nation’s central regions. Patricio Rodrigo, executive secretary of the Patagonia Defense Council, called the moment “the greatest triumph of the environmental movement in Chile.”

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Thank You For Your Support

June 13, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Thanks So Much For Your Support! Your donation will allow us to continue to do the writing, editing and publishing it takes to keep you informed about these important struggles for justice across Latin America. […]

Capitalism’s Bullets in Latin America: Invisible Empires, State Power and 21st Century Colonialism

June 12, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Capitalism, empire and 21st century colonialism come from afar and descend on their victims in Latin America. But these forces are also in the tear gas canisters that Brazil’s security forces use at the World Cup, in the state that extracts natural resources on indigenous territory, and in the free trade deals signed in blood.

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Sporting Shock Doctrine: Dave Zirin on the World Cup, Olympics and Brazilian Democracy

June 11, 2014 Upside Down World 0

In Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics and the Struggle for Democracy, Dave Zirin peels back the colorful FIFA curtain of publicity that currently blankets sporting sites across the globe to reveal the repression, deaths, displacement and corruption that paved the way to the 2014 World Cup, and the the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics to follow.

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Brazil: The World Cup Bus to Nowhere

June 10, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Americas Blog The Rio de Janeiro city government inaugurated the most expensive public work project officially connected to the World Cup last week. Although construction of some of the stations is expected to […]

Book Review: Learning from Latin America’s Social Movements

June 10, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Until the Rulers Obey is a major advance in the effort to acquaint North American leftists with the Latin American grassroots. The book brings together interviews with representatives from some 70 organizations in 15 South and Central American countries, ranging from indigenous women in a Zapatista community in the mountains of southeastern Mexico to members of an anarchist collective in urban Uruguay.

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Mexico’s Biodiversity Under Siege

June 9, 2014 Upside Down World 0

(IPS) – The Las Cruces hydroelectric project in the northwestern state of Nayarit is one of the threats to biodiversity in Mexico, according to activists. “It will have an impact on the Marismas Nacionales wetlands […]

Latin America: Full Spectrum Seizures of Power

June 9, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Source: ALAI, América Latina en Movimiento Winds of change carrying old habits are blowing through the territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. The hegemonic vocation and the permanent need to renew it and reaffirm […]

Sex Workers Take to the Streets in Honduras to Protest Murders and Discrimination

June 9, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Cries for justice rang out in the streets of the Honduran capital on June 2 as several dozen women of all ages, some with young children in tow, had gathered in a nearby park that morning in preparation for the march. Some donned masks, with multi-colored feathers waving in the air. All wore t-shirts with a message written clearly on the back in pink lettering: We demand the recognition of sex work.

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Book Review: Border Patrol Nation

June 8, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Todd Miller’s powerful prose belies what one hopes is a growing sense of outrage at the inhuman and racist goals of U.S. border enforcement. His journeys from place to place and the complexities he presents within the Border Patrol itself provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of what’s wrong in the United States.

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