Breaking New Ground: Brazil’s MST
The social struggles of Brazil's landless agricultural workers and small producers over the past two decades have developed in the ...
A Sense of Possibility: Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes Center Stage
At about 9:45 on the morning of January 21, a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people from the Ecuadorian highlands, burst ...
Unity, Dignity, Autonomy: A Profile of CONAIE President Antonio Vargas
At age 41, Antonio Vargas, an Amazonian Quichua, is a 20-year veteran of the indigenous movement. President of the Confederation ...
Rural Rebellion in Southern Mexico: The Guerrillas of Guerrero
In the pre-dawn hours of June 7, 1998, Mexican Army troops surrounded a small schoolhouse in El Charco, a Mixtec ...
Brazil’s Landless Find Their Voice
Founded in 1984, the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) is today the largest social movement in Brazil and perhaps the ...
¡Adelante! The New Rural Activism in the Americas
In many parts of Latin America, rural social movements have taken center stage in their nations' politics. In Brazil, the ...
The Persistence of the Peasantry
In the mid-1990s, the World Bank reported that for the first time in history less than half the world's labor ...
Zapatismo Resurgent: Land and Autonomy in Chiapas
Economic restructuring, embraced by Mexico's leaders after its 1982 crisis of external debt, has reached deeply into the Mexican countryside ...
