
Venezuela’s Opposition: Back Into the Frying Pan
The Venezuelan opposition faced a difficult question in February, as the country prepared to vote in a national referendum on ...

Building a Transnational Peasant Movement
The Vía Campesina movements roots reach back to the North-North, South-South, and North-South exchanges among farm organizations that occurred throughout ...

A Great Feeling of Love: Hilda and Che
My Life With Che: The Making of a Revolutionary by Hilda Gadea (Foreword by Ricardo Gadea), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 233 ...

Voices From Maputo: La Vía Campesinas Fifth International Conference
We are the men and women of the land. We are those who produce food for the world. We have ...

Tears Learning to Be Cried: Profiles of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Bajo Juárez: The City Devouring Its Daughters (DVD, 2007), a documentary film by Alejandra Sánchez and José Antonio Cordero, 96 ...

Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the New Crisis
During the first months of 2007, Mexicans took to the streets to protest a sudden doubling of the price of ...

Eating to Dream: A Tortillería in Oaxaca
Like other Latin Americans, Mexicans today face the threat of severe food shortages. To understand the causes of the food ...

A New Model With Rough Edges: Venezuelas Community Councils
The main country road that passes by Las Cuadras, a poor rural area in the zone of El Valle, in ...