Voices From the Oaxacan Insurgency
People were tired with the plantón, fed up with us teachers encamped in the zócalo. But with the repression, Ulises ...
Cuba: A Half-Century of Distorted News and Counting . . .
Since January 1959, nearly half a century ago, U.S. mass media have reflected the views of the U.S. government and ...
An Evo of the People
Cocalero (DVD, 97 minutes), a film by ALejandro Landes, 2007, distributed by Morocha Films, www.cocalero.com Evo Pueblo (DVD, 90 minutes), ...
Venezuela’s Past in the Chavista Present
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon by Steve Ellner, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008, 260 pp., $55 hardcover ...
Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina
Beginning in mid-2006, news reports in English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine ravaging the ...
The Oaxaca Commune: Struggling for Autonomy and Dignity
For almost six months in 2006, an unstructured coalition of workers, students, peasants, women, youth, indigenous peoples, and urban poor ...
Guatemala’s Genocide: Survivors Speak
Guatemala took a small step toward justice on February 4, when an international genocide case charging eight former senior officials ...
Carrying on the Struggle: El Comité 68
In 2004, when Ignacio Carrillo Prieto, Mexicos special prosecutor for past social and political movements, sought an arrest for ex-president ...
