Category: Latin-American Affairs

By Alberto Acosta, Eduardo Gudynas, Esperanza Martínez and Joseph Vogel The government of Ecuador has presented a novel proposal to not exploit the oil […]

CHILE: Resounding Rejection of Genetically Modified (GM) Products BRAZIL: The Harsh Reality Behind Sugar Cane Ethanol NO to Bio-fuels for Aviation MEXICO: African Palm […]

On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war […]

Now middle-aged and with a family to support, government worker Gerardo Gonzalez has pursued a personal economic strategy familiar to countless Mexicans. Turning to […]

Among the isolated but alarming outbreaks around the world of swine flu cases in the late days of April 2009, the only fatalities confirmed […]

The historic victory of the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) party in the presidential […]

For the small Naso indigenous community of Panama, the curtain of 2009 opened on a heart wrenching scene of conflict over the native people”s […]

In the center of the Caracol, two gangs of nine howler monkeys fight over territory. This spectacle attracts the attention of the members of the Good Government Board (GGB), “Nueva semilla que va a producir” (“A New Seed that will Grow”). Also out to watch the show are peace campers from Argentina, Barcelona, and France; the team of indigenous people charged with the autonomous communications project; and a group from the United States that is building the Zapatista secondary school.

By Tony Phillips On Sept. 9, separatist groups in the resource-rich eastern “half-moon”1 states of Bolivia launched violent attacks on the offices of the […]

"There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848, the second took place in 1968. Both were historic failures. Both transformed […]