Trotskygrad on the Altiplano

Trotskygrad on the Altiplano

Bolivia’s Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes by S. Sándor John, University of Arizona Press, 2009, 320 pp., $55 ...
New Water Wars in Bolivia: Climate Change and Indigenous Struggle

New Water Wars in Bolivia: Climate Change and Indigenous Struggle

On April 16, about 900 comunarios, or communal peasants, of Nor Lípez Province in Bolivia’s southwestern department of Potosí staged ...
Beyond Extraction: An Interview With Rafael Quispe

Beyond Extraction: An Interview With Rafael Quispe

Rafael Quispe, 41, is the leader of the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Cullasuyu (CONAMAQ), a body of ...
Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?

Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?

After the indigenous uprising in Peru's Amazon region in June, it appears that an indigenous pledge to physically resist the ...
Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?

Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?

After the indigenous uprising in Peru’s Amazon region in June, the country is in many ways fundamentally changed. For the ...
Plan Colombia: Exporting the Model

Plan Colombia: Exporting the Model

From its origins 10 years ago, the multibillion-dollar aid package and militarized anti-narcotics program known as Plan Colombia was understood ...
Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security

Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security

The strength of the Mexican drug cartels' firepower now rivals even that of the regular army. Both the cartels and ...
Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security

Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security

Shipping powders back and forth Black goes south and white comes north. — “Throwing Stones,” John Perry Barlow for the ...
Muslims in the Americas Face Scrutiny

Muslims in the Americas Face Scrutiny

In july 1994, a new york city detective with the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force came to the door of ...
¡YA! YOUTH ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAS

¡YA! YOUTH ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAS

Red Juvenil, or Youth Network, was founded in 1990 in the poor barrios of Medellín, Colombia, “to promote youth participation ...
Drugs, Guerrillas and Politicos in Mexico

Drugs, Guerrillas and Politicos in Mexico

Reports of massacres in the Mexican countryside have become alarmingly common in recent years, but a recent incident was among ...
Mexico: Lacandon Selva Conflict Grows

Mexico: Lacandon Selva Conflict Grows

The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the ...