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 ...
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 ...
Zapatismo Resurgent: Land and Autonomy in Chiapas

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

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 ...
Mapuches Press for Autonomy

Mapuches Press for Autonomy

On July 25, over a hundred members of Chile’s most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in ...