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, ...
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 ...
The AFL-CIO’s ‘New Internationalism’
Last December, when then President-elect Lula da Silva met with the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO in a celebratory gathering ...
Worker President Raises Workers’ Hopes in Brazil
On October 27, 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—lathe operator, metalworker, undisputed leader of the independent labor movement that emerged ...
In Another Vein
The sunny plaza outside La Paz’s San Francisco Church is a favorite spot for friends to meet, a picturesque colonial ...