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"Has the US lost power, in the eyes of the citizens of the region, to the point that not even the expectation of a president in solidarity with the problems of the most dispossessed can evoke expectations? Or is it that the US never had more than the attention of the elites in the region and it is the youth of today that will be looking at the US in the future?" A recent poll conducted across Latin America points to some interesting answers to these questions.  […]

We all complain about politics, but have you ever wondered what makes a person pick up a gun and start violently resisting the government? The was one of the questions I wanted to answer when I started writing The Army of the Republic. So, when I decided to set my book about urban guerrillas in the United States, I had to look elsewhere to try to understand why people resort to violent struggle. I chose Argentina. […]

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Who would have thought when Daddy Yankee released "Gasolina" in 2004 that four short years later the song would become the butt of jokes about John McCain and offshore drilling? If there were still sectors of U.S. society that didn’t know about reggaetón, this year’s presidential race certainly changed that. […]

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There is evidence that US-dominated influence in Latin America is over, both politically and economically. In its stead, China has quietly positioned itself to fill the void in Latin American affairs. […]

Four dozen labour, indigenous, peasant farmer, small and medium scale mining, and environmental organizations recently met in Bogotá at the Andean Forum in Response to Large Scale Mining to discuss the experiences struggling against the powerful transnational mining industry. […]

Upside Down World editors Benjamin Dangl and Jason Wallach received 2007-2008 Project Censored Awards for their coverage of Washington‘s interventions in Latin America and the fight against water privatization in El Salvador. Each year Project Censored selects the top 25 most important censored news stories chosen out of hundreds of articles. […]

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