Close the NGOs: Asserting Sovereignty or Eroding Democracy?
In past weeks, the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia moved to shut down or expel major NGOs (non-government organizations) that ...
Fracking for Sovereignty? The Argentine Case
Argentina's nationalization of YPF took a strange turn this year when the government signed a deal with Chevron to boost ...
Fuel Politics in Latin America: Where to Begin?
Extractives in Latin America aspires to draw attention to reality as represented through Latin American eyes and voices. The politics we ...
Amid Gas, Where Is the Revolution?
The political victories of anti-neoliberal movements and regimes have opened a new chapter in Latin American history, yet the embrace ...
Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press
If one reads the mainstream U.S. press to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is ...
By Means Legal and Otherwise: The Bolivian Right Regroups
Two years into Evo Morales’s tenure as president of Bolivia, he and his party, the MAS, face difficult challenges. In ...
