Source: Jacobin What’s known as the “Mexican Drug War” was fueled by American free-market policies. Adapted from A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War,” out this spring from […]
Source: teleSUR English For much of Bolivian history, women have been marginalized and excluded from society and from formal political power. However, despite centuries of deeply imbedded patriarchal practices, women from rural, mining worker communities […]
Source: Americas Program Clara Wood survived a shooting carried out during a joint Honduras-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drug interdiction operation in the Moskitia region in eastern Honduras on May 11, 2012. Her 14-year old […]
Occupations in Brazil Today Follow Emergency Global Day of Action on March 3 Thursday morning 300 peasants organized by La Via Campesina occupied the meeting of the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) in Brasilia, […]
“Ten years of grassroots community resistance to gentrification and displacement in El Barrio, New York. Ten years of building a social justice organization based on self-determination, participatory democracy and autonomy. Ten years of majority-women organizing […]
The struggles to defend the earth, water, air and commons in Latin America is ever increasing, with stories of mega mining projects halted by communities using their bodies as blockades and damming projects halted by […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited First steps towards producing shale gas meet with increasing concern among Bolivian civil society The momentum is building. Bolivia’s state oil and gas company YPFB announced in early 2013 it would […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The NSA disclosures, Latin American backlash, and what it means for hemispheric relations. As the U.S. government maintains its uneasy silence about the kidnapping and probable murder of 43 […]
Source: The Nation Washington is providing equipment and training to compromised agencies—at the same time that it’s tracking their close ties to organized crime. By February 2010, US consulate officials in Monterrey, Mexico, had long […]
Source: The Nation The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is […]
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