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 excluded—those 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 ...
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 ...
New Challenges for Radical Social Movements
“There were no social classes that day,” says Jorge Jara, recounting the protests of December 20, 2001. “You’d look, and ...
