During the month of March 2011 the biggest social protest by workers in many years erupted in Brazil. More than 80,000 workers all over the country paralyzed the work of “progress” in
At the end of December, the first popular uprising in the region against a government of the left took place in Bolivia. It was caused by an excessive increase in the price
In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century in South America. There have been numerous and significant
Heaven and hell are reversed, traveling to the edge of the abyss, they transform into their opposite: an atrocious war with a community of peace; desperation with hope; life and death dance
When the environmental assembly of Gualeguaychú decided to lift the three-year blockade of the bridge that unites Uruguay and Argentina, a new stage of environmental social action began. Although resistance to
Dilma Rousseff was very close to winning in the first round of votes; she made it to the threshold of Lula’s government. Lula da Silva, the most popular president Brazil has ever
Today, social movements are uniting to defend common resources and criticize extractivism. However, they are far from the unanimity characteristic of the period when rightwing governments prevailed in most South American countries
In the two Andean countries with the greatest percentage of original peoples, Bolivia and Ecuador, there is a growing confrontation between the Plurinational State and the indigenous. While members of the two
The sudden emergence of new actors in Peruvian society, namely indigenous peoples from the Amazon and women from the public sector, has demonstrated that the old centralist state, which serves the white
Since Apr. 26, a state of emergency has been in effect in five northern provinces of Paraguay, which represent a third of the nation’s territory. The government maintains that there is an