Cocaine cuts close to the bone here in New Mexico. An addict lives to either side of me. To the south, it’s the angry Chicano whose proclivities run to shooting off guns and starting fires that require three fire departments to quell; to the north, it’s the waif of a blonde whose high school graduation may have been awaited with joy — but, in the presence of the white temptation, deteriorated into confusion, loss of a job, and ill health. […]
Bolivian workers in Argentina are pressing the government to take action against slave-like conditions inside clandestine textile shops after a fire in a factory killed 6 people in Buenos Aires last week.
Mexico has redrawn its congressional districts to increase the number of Indian lawmakers. Mexico’s indigenous have long been under-represented politically and have suffered socially and economically as a result. According to the Fox Administration there will […]
Ecuador and the U.S. suspended trade talks after a fruitless week of negotiations in Washington. Agricultural issues, intellectual property and Ecuador’s new hydrocarbon law (which would redistribute oil profits) kept the two countires from reaching […]
Nicaraguans, tired of free market reforms carried out by pro-Washington governments that have failed to improve living standards are expressing increasing support for Sandinista Daniel Ortega’s bid to become the country’s next president. Nicaraguans are […]
On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the growing New Left in Latin America. At Tiwanaku, a site of pre-Incan ruins significant to the country’s indigenous populations, Evo Morales, barefoot and dressed in a red tunic, received a silver and gold staff from leaders of the Aymara people.
According to polls, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has emerged unscathed from the political crisis of corruption his government suffered in 2005. With his popularity on the rise, it is likely he will be reelected for another four years in October.
In this interview Abel Mamani outlines his hopes and the challenges his Ministry will face. He explains that the Bolivian Government’s policies on water will be based on the understanding that Water is a human right and must be managed by the state and the community.
Chilean President Michele Bachelet recently said that Chile would be "back stepping" by joining Mercosur and that the FTAA is more in her country’s interests. "That’s why we are so enthusiastic and push so hard […]
The Brazilian government plans to hand out over a billion free condoms to its citizens this year in a massive effort to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. "The government campaign in Brazil is straightforward, like […]
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