The Multiplication of Autonomies in Latin America

The Multiplication of Autonomies in Latin America

From food production to health and community justice, practices and experiments in autonomy across Latin America cultivate a thirdway alternative ...
The Oaxaca Commune: Struggling for Autonomy and Dignity

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 ...
By Means Legal and Otherwise: The Bolivian Right Regroups

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 ...
Time of the Snails: Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas

Time of the Snails: Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas

The people of Nuevo San Isidro watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven ...
Inclusion Through Autonomy: Zapatistas and Dissent

Inclusion Through Autonomy: Zapatistas and Dissent

The Zapatista movement is probably one of the best-known examples of dissent against the neoliberal model of economic globalization. On ...
The Zapatistas at Ten

The Zapatistas at Ten

With their rubber boots slapping at the slick cobblestones and faces hooded by mists and masks, they seemed like ghosts ...
Bolivia's Separatist Movement

Bolivia’s Separatist Movement

“What we should do is simply and smoothly separate ourselves [from Bolivia].” One might assume these words were spoken by ...
THE ECOLOGY OF AUTONOMY

THE ECOLOGY OF AUTONOMY

DEBATES OVER THE FUTUREOF AUTONOMY IN Nicaragua grew intense and urgent in August, when news of negotiations between the central ...