What’s Behind Bolivia’s Cooperative Mining Wars?
Bolivia’s brutal cooperative mining conflict reveals the growing contradictions and perils of extractivism, as the government and popular sectors struggle ...
Why Bolivian Workers Are Marching Against Evo Morales
The shutdown of Bolivia’s state-run textile company calls into question the alliance between President Evo Morales and the Bolivian Workers ...
Bolivia Votes: Can Evo Morales Run Again?
Will Bolivians approve a constitutional amendment that would allow President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term? ...
Our Brand Is Impunity: Why is the U.S. Harboring Bolivia’s Most Wanted Fugitive?
The new film Our Brand is Crisis doesn’t tell us how a president who authorized the massacre of indigenous Bolivians ...
Chilean Students Struggle to Deepen Educational Reforms
A new Chilean law bans profits, tuition, and selective admissions in private primary and secondary schools that receive state subsidies--but students say ...
A View on Cuba’s Opening From the De Facto U.S. Colony of Puerto Rico
The hard questions of the Obam-apertura. ...
Carlos Slim’s Empire Broken Up But Oligarchs Still Control Mexico
Watered down telecoms reforms represent a victory for big business in Mexico ...
The Fifth Anniversary of the Bagua Massacre in Alternative Media and Art
Through alternative media, activists and artists demand justice for the victims of the Bagua Massacre ...