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 ...
NO FREE LUNCH
THE INCREASING NUMBERS OF WOMEN smuggling donated U.S. flour across the border to sell in Peru are evidence that food ...
Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua
2000: I return to Nicaragua after being away for two years to find the capital city transformed with a new ...
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 Evolution of Latin American NGOs
In Latin America, NGOs have historical roots in the Catholic Church's fear of social unrest. In the 1950s, the Church ...
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 ...
A Mixed Blessing: The NGO Boom in Latin America
It is often assumed that the growth of NGOs in Latin America reflects a strengthening of civil society. But in ...
A Typology of Activism
Solidarity has been a core value for religious, leftist and labor groups, signifying support for the struggles of people who, ...
