In the bloody War of the Pacific in 1879, Chile took away Bolivia’s only access to the sea. Over a century later, demands from Bolivia for the recuperation of this land are louder than ever. The most recently proposed solution to this diplomatic crisis seems to be straight out of a science fiction novel: the construction of 150 kilometer tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. […]
The release of a posthumous video by recently murdered lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has unleashed the worst political crisis in the current administration. Rosenberg states in the video: “If you are watching this, it is because I was murdered by President Alvaro Colom.” […]
This is Part Four of a Series of Interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled "What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left."
Carlos Alarcón is a public high school history teacher, community activist, and board member of ANDES 21 de Junio. His work spans three decades of turmoil and uprising in El Salvador – specifically in Santa Ana, the second most populous department in the country, which borders Honduras and Guatemala.
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Civil society organizations in Ecuador say that President Rafael Correa’s 21st Century Socialism favors powerful economic groups and bodes poorly for Ecuador’s most-excluded. […]
When Barack Obama attended the Summit of the Americas, leftist Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wanted to shake his hand, the right-wing president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, asked for his autograph and the anti-imperialist book Open Veins of Latin America made an unlikely journey to the White House. What does the April Summit of the Americas say about the past and future of U.S.-Latin American relations? […]
Fear of environmental contamination and dwindling water resources are motivating a nearly two-month-long permanent civilian occupation of Canadian-owned Trinidad Mine in San José del Progreso, Mexico and all its installations. […]
This is Part Three of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”
Oswaldo Natarén is an artist, activist, and co-founder of the University Front of Roque Dalton (FURD), a leftist student group at the National University of El Salvador (UES).
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Sixth months before Uruguay heads to the election polls, the signatures of over 340,000 Uruguayans suggest that the country will not only be electing a new President in late October. Pending the certification of the Uruguayan election court, Uruguayan citizens will also be determining the future of a law that many human rights activists have vigorously worked to undo for over two decades. […]
Workers and activists gathered in the central
Gathering in the Province of San Juan, the heart of the Argentinean mining industry, representatives of the Union of Citizens Assemblies reaffirmed their commitment to fighting an economic model which is plundering natural resources and destroying livelihoods. […]
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