Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, a Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land (Review)

Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, a Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land (Review)

Translated for the first time into English by William Costa, Rafael Barrett’s text, originally published in 1911, offers political and ...
Environmental Sustainability: Alternative Approaches in Latin America (AUDIO)

Environmental Sustainability: Alternative Approaches in Latin America (AUDIO)

NACLA hosted a panel discussion on the Drug War and the Environment in Latin America at the 2013 Left Forum ...
Colombia's U'Wa People: The Real Price of Oil

Colombia’s U’Wa People: The Real Price of Oil

"We are all children of the Earth, help us to defend her." —Berito KuwarU'wa, spokesperson Traditional U'wa Authority In the ...
Conflict in the Borderlands

Conflict in the Borderlands

The history of U.S.-Mexico relations concerning water is one of barely contained, and sometimes open, diplomatic conflict. Within the United ...
Pacific Coast Communities Confront Shrimp Farm Threat

Pacific Coast Communities Confront Shrimp Farm Threat

A rusted, faded sign arches over the entrance to the town of Unión Hidalgo, in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca ...
Chile's Mapuche: Not Yet "Pacified

Chile’s Mapuche: Not Yet “Pacified

The past two decades have seen increasing conflict between Chile’s indigenous peoples—particularly the country’s largest indigenous group, the Mapuche—and a ...
Lula’s Environment Policy: An Overview

Lula’s Environment Policy: An Overview

As of this writing, the new Brazilian government headed by President Lula da Silva is scarcely two months old. It ...
Bio "Gold" Rush in Chiapas on Hold

Bio “Gold” Rush in Chiapas on Hold

The road from the airport at Tuxtla Gutiérrez to San Cristóbal in Chiapas, Mexico wends its way from balmy tropics ...
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