Bolivian Women’s Organizations in the MAS Era
Throughout the 1990s, the Bolivian women’s movement was ideologically polarized between a liberal, NGO-based “gender technocracy” and the anarcha-feminism embodied ...
THE PRI FIGHTS BACK—AND LOSES
FOR DECADES, THE GOVERNING PARTIDO Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI, has maintained control over poor neighborhoods by serving as the primary ...
Cuban Civil Society: II. Future Directions and Challenges
If we define actors (social, political, economic) as groups having a distinctive public profile and defined interests vis-à-vis the system ...
The Eighth Encuentro
In November 1999, feminists from throughout the region convened in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, for the Eighth Latin American and ...
A SCHOOL FOR CHANGE
IN ORDER TO PROMOTE INFORMED AND thoughtful participation by all its members, the urban popular movement has incorporated a number ...
Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program
In the wake of the structural-adjustment program implemented by President Alberto Fujimori in August, 1990, the number of Peruvians living ...
Squatters’ Power is San Miguel Teotongo
PERHAPS WHAT MAKES THE URBAN POOR people's movement such a deeply challenging force-in Mexico or anywhere-is that it is rooted ...
