‘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 ...
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The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal’s Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death by Carlos A. Jáuregui, The Pennsylvania ...
Voices From Maputo: La Vía Campesina’s Fifth International Conference
We are the men and women of the land. We are those who produce food for the world. We have ...
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 ...
Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum
Five of Latin America’s presidents skipped this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, instead making appearances at the World ...
The Fun House Mirror: Distortions and Omissions in the News on Bolivia
In August, Bolivian president Evo Morales won a referendum on his term in office with 67% of the vote. The ...
Introduction: Food Crisis in the Americas
In early March, Olivier de Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, said there had been ...
Soy: A Hunger for Land
In October, I visited rural communities in two Paraguayan departments, Alto Paraná and San Pedro, to photograph the social conflicts ...