Community Resistance Against Extraction
In Peru and Argentina, local communities are mobilizing to halt mega extraction projects, creating new models for movement building based ...
A Journey in Exile
We who survived and found ourselves heading to exile took the opportunity to begin a new life, to come ...
Latin America: A New Cycle of Social Struggles
The first three months of 2012 registered an astounding acceleration of the Latin American movements defending water and life ...
The New Latin American Right: Finding a Place in the World
The triumph of the neoliberal Washington Consensus in Latin America has had a contradictory effect: It has increased the profits ...
New Challenges for Radical Social Movements
“There were no social classes that day,” says Jorge Jara, recounting the protests of December 20, 2001. “You’d look, and ...
The Growth of the Uruguayan Left
MONTEVIDEO—Hopes that the left-wing alliance between the the Frente Amplio and the Progressive Encounter (FA-EP) would win national elections were ...
The Crisis in Uruguay: The Long View
Montevideo—July 2002 will be remembered as the month the Uruguayan crisis exploded. It is a triple crisis—economic, political, and social—that ...
