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
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
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?
After the indigenous uprising in Peru’s Amazon region in June, the country is in many ways fundamentally changed. For the ...
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
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
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
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
The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the ...
