Radically Reshaping Latina/o America
Latina/os are best positioned to form a broad left agenda—beyond advocating immigration reform—to tackle hemispheric inequality at its roots ...
Washington’s ‘Divide and Conquer’ Free Trade Agenda
From the defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2005, to Washington’s sub-regional free-trade showdowns, to now, ...
Lessons From Operation Bootstrap
In the 1950s, Puerto Rico tied its development strategy to market-oriented reforms and to the U.S. economy. The mixed results ...
Drug Economies of the Americas
In the Americas, the production and sale of illicit drugs generates tens of billions of dollars a year—perhaps far more ...
Where the Big Fish Eat the Little Fish: Women’s Work in the Free-Trade Zones
In the new world economic order, small countries must compete against each other by offering lower wages to attract transnational ...
Beggar Thy Neighbor
It became official in February. The U.S.-Mexico free trade negotiations will include Canada as a full participant. Subject to Congressional ...
Organizing in the Maquilas
NEARLY HALF-A-MILLION MEXICANS ARE currently employed in maquiladoras-the 1,500 in- bond assembly plants clustered along Mexico's northern border. These overwhelmingly ...
New Harvests, Old Problems: Feeding the Global Supermarket
NEW HARVEST, OLD PROBLEMS: FEEDING THE GLOBAL SUPERMARKET Non-traditional agro-exports, while they have proven to be profitable for foreign investor, ...
