
Conflict in the Borderlands
The history of U.S.-Mexico relations concerning water is one of barely contained, and sometimes open, diplomatic conflict. Within the United ...

Democracy’s Crisis of Legitimacy in Latin America
The United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) recent report, “Democracy in Latin America: Towards a Citizens’ Democracy,” aims to stimulate debate ...

KEEPING IT PUBLIC IN BOGOTÁ
When it loaned $145 million to Bogotá in 1996 to help salvage the Colombian capitals struggling public water company, the ...

Fighting The Delta Blues
With its water levels dropping precipitously, the Colorado River Delta faces a bleak future. The survival of the Deltaand of ...

Perus Cocaleros on the March
Farmers and local organizers from Perus prominent coca-cultivating regions staged a mass demonstration last April. Led in large part by ...

TRACKING THE ECONOMY: Paying for NAFTA
As many nations now seek deeper integration into the world economy through such fora as the Free Trade Area of ...

The Times They Are A-Changin
No, you are not imagining things; NACLA has undergone an extreme makeover (although we chose long-time Naclista and graphic designer ...

Water Privatization in Buenos Aires
During the 1990s, as part of the countrys profound neoliberal economic and social transformation, Argentina experimented with a broad process ...