Selling the Public Sector: Latin America reacts; Colombia: Taking a Stand in Cali
Emcali is the public company that provides water, energy and telecom services to two million people in and around Cali, ...
Colombia: U. S. Aid to Protect Pipeline
In a policy shift that signals an escalation of U.S. involvement in Colombia’s civil war, U.S. Special Forces are training ...
Selling the Public Sector: Latin America reacts; El Salvador: Who Will Have the Hospitals?
In El Salvador, efforts to put the public health system into private hands have provoked a wave of opposition: Last ...
Selling the Public Sector: Latin America Reacts: Mexico: Lights Out for Electric Company Sale?
In the 1930s and 40s, General Lázaro Cárdenas made nationalization of economic resources and land reform symbols of Mexican national ...
In the National Interest
Neoliberalism has not always ruled the world. In Latin America the wholesale privatization of state companies, from water supplies to ...
Taking Note Can You Eat Neoliberalism?
On January 2, Gilberto Gil was sworn in as Brazil’s culture minister. For many people in the United States, the ...
Inside the IDB
The officials of the Inter-American Development Bank make their recommendations from Washington where their headquarters sits at the corner of ...
Privatization and its Discontents
This NACLA Report focuses on privatization—the conversion of public entities into privately-owned, profit-oriented businesses. As Bea Edwards details in her ...
