Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Indigenous groups and social movements in Ecuador seek to translate the concept of “Buen Vivir” into policy. “Es la etica del estado – It’s the state’s moral obligation,” Ecuadorian […]
Source: Roar Magazine Primero de enero 1994. 3:00am. The Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has gone to bed happy that towards the end of his mandate Mexico joins the North American Free Trade Agreement, […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited A Guatemalan investigative journalist named Luis Solano was in Canada last month to launch a report about a Canadian-owned silver mine in south-east Guatemala. The mine, Escobal, began operating last year […]
Source: TeleSUR English This first session of the Parliament aims to create a legislative mechanism through which the people can govern. President of the Venezuelan National Assembly Diosdado Cabello presided Tuesday over the first gathering […]
Source: Roar Magazine Cochabamba taught us that the real issue is not the capture of state power, but the creation of new pathways from the grassroots up. In Latin America, the struggle for water as […]
Source: The Nation Even Chavistas are fed up with the economic crisis and want change. But unlike the right, grassroots leaders are calling for more popular control and collective decision-making. Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party […]
Source: Jacobin The Bolivarian Revolution hasn’t been perfect, but it’s improved the lives of millions in the face of violent opposition. In many ways, Hugo Chávez’s legacy is at stake on December 6. An opposition […]
Source: Huffington Post The campaign for Venezuela’s Dec. 6 National Assembly election is only three weeks long, but in the United States it started about six months ago with leaks by anonymous U.S. officials making […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Early in the night on Sunday, November 22, Mauricio Macri became the first leader of a conservative coalition to win a presidential election in Argentina since 1910. A sense […]
Source: Fortune The election of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri as Argentina’s president on Sunday, which just a few months ago was unexpected, is a setback for Argentina and for the region. In the last 13 […]
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