Armoring NAFTA: The Battleground for Mexico’s Future
In March 2005, the leaders of the three NAFTA countries, U.S. president George W. Bush, Mexican president Vicente Fox, and ...
Everything Is Up for Discussion: A 40th Anniversary Conversation With Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Silvia Rvera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist, activist, and public intellectual who teaches at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres ...
Pachamama Goes Organic: Bolivia’s Quinoa Farmers
The elevator is broken in Bolivia’s Ministry of Campesino and Agricultural Affairs, so together with Arturo Mamani Poma and Salustiano ...
A Hunger Striker Becomes Chile’s Conscience
On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger strike ...
The World Bank’s Indigenous Policy
In early 1994, the Ecuadorian government announced the seventh round of oil leases to open up ten new areas of ...
Land Rights and Garífuna Identity
The history of the Garífuna people has long been tied to land. The Garífuna originate from the 17th century when, ...
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 ...
Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas
In the mid fifteenth century, sailors under the command of the Portuguese entrepreneur Prince Henry the Navigator began purchasing human ...
