Peru vs. Lori Berenson: The Case Continues
On April 3, 2002, in a unanimous, 7-0 decision, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights declared that U.S. citizen Lori ...
Bolivia: Privatized Water Company Defeated
On January 10, members of more than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an ...
The Treasure of Cajamarca—And Other Peruvian Curses
On November 15, 1532, in the northern Peruvian city of Cajamarca, Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro slaughtered 7,000 Inca ...
Social Movements: Building From the Ground Up
One of the major contradictions in the Americas today is that between the included and the excludedthose who can regularly ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paraguay’s Enigmatic President
When Nicanor Duarte, the candidate of the ruling Colorado Party, won the Paraguayan presidential elections in April 2003, few observers ...
