The New Underground
Armies of ex-miners, unemployed factory workers and refugees from rural hunger labor in family-run workshops, hawk wares, or deal in ...
Energy Privatized: The Ultimate Neoliberal Triumph
On December 21, 2013 Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, gave the official decree ending the 75-year history of the national ...
Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration
After more than 30 years, with the arrival in January 2003 of the Luiz Inácio “Lula” Da Silva administration, the ...
Anti-Racism in Brazil
Brazilian race relations have always played a role in the construction of ideas about race and anti-racism in the United ...
Crisis in Venezuela: The Remarkable Fall and Rise of Hugo Chávez
In the late afternoon of Thursday April 11, a huge anti-government march, perhaps half a million strong, wended its way ...
Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Pro-Chavez Multitudes Challenge Media Blackout)
So this is how a modern coup d’etat is overthrown: almost invisibly, at the margins of the media. Venezuela returned ...
Venezuela’s Oil Reform and Chavismo
Few things happen in Venezuela that don’t have to do with oil, either directly or indirectly. The country is one ...
Polarized Politics in Chávez’s Venezuela
On December 15, 1999, as Venezuelans voted to ratify the country's new Constitution—a Constitution drafted by an elected Constituent Assembly ...
