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
Two years into Evo Morales’s tenure as president of Bolivia, he and his party, the MAS, face difficult challenges. In ...
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
With their rubber boots slapping at the slick cobblestones and faces hooded by mists and masks, they seemed like ghosts ...
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
DEBATES OVER THE FUTUREOF AUTONOMY IN Nicaragua grew intense and urgent in August, when news of negotiations between the central ...
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 ...
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 ...
