Day: November 21, 2005

Venezuela

Juan Contreras, a veteran community organizer in a working-class Caracas barrio, shows me around the barrio’s new Casa de Encuentro, a meeting house and cultural center. The center just two months ago

Americas In the News

Laura Carlsen was a guest on KPFA’s Morning Show to discuss the results of the Summit of the Americas. Carlsen noted that, “The Summit was a major step forward in defeating the

Regional Integration After the Collapse of the FTAA

Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse