Time of the Snails: Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas
The people of Nuevo San Isidro watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven ...
Inclusion Through Autonomy: Zapatistas and Dissent
The Zapatista movement is probably one of the best-known examples of dissent against the neoliberal model of economic globalization. On ...
Chavistas in the Halls of Power, Chavistas on the Street
With members of Venezuela’s political opposition trying to get rid of President Hugo Chávez by just about any means they ...
The Emerging “Threat” of Radical Populism
At a house armed services committee meeting in March 2004, the then-commander of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), Gen. James ...
¡Bolivia de pie!
By most accounts, the opening salvo in Bolivia’s ongoing revolutionary cycle occurred in 2000.1 Mothers, unionists, campesinos, students, in fact, ...
Peru’s Cocaleros on the March
Farmers and local organizers from Peru’s prominent coca-cultivating regions staged a mass demonstration last April. Led in large part by ...
Brazil’s Landless Hold Their Ground
Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures ...
The World Social Forum and the Rise of Global Politics
Since 2001, activists from around the world who are opposed to neoliberal corporate globalization have gathered annually at the World ...
