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Guatemala: SalvaVidas Purified Water Union Suffers Threats and Injustice

Tue, 08/19/2008 - 7:18am
Recently, SalvaVidas employees decided to organize a union in the hope of improving their working conditions. Immediately after finding out...

The Street and the Ballot Box: Voices From Bolivia’s Recall Vote

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 7:37pm
Cochabamba, Bolivia - On August 10, Bolivian President Evo Morales won a resounding victory in Bolivia’s recall referendum. Regardless of...

Repression of Documentary Filmmakers in Chile

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 8:16am
In the last five months there have been several incidents of arrest, detainment, and in one case expulsion of documentary...

Bolivia: Prefect Reyes Villa Resigns After Losing Referendum

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 6:24am
On the morning of August 12, Manfred Reyes Villa, the embattled conservative prefect (governor) of Bolivia’s department (state) of Cochabamba,...

Guatemala: The Hope for an Endless Mine

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:24am
Argued by critics as the next wave of land theft and imperialism, foreign controlled mining activity in Guatemala has increased...

Optimism and Uncertainty Follow Bolivian Recall Vote

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 9:40am
President Evo Morales and his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party won a resounding victory in Bolivia’s Recall Referendum held Sunday,...

Bolivian President Ratified in Post, Three Prefects Lose Vote

Sun, 08/10/2008 - 4:57pm
The President and Vicepresident of Bolivia, Evo Morales and Alvaro Garcia, respectively, were ratified in their posts, according to preliminary...

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Colombia: Corporations with a License to Kill

Thu, 08/07/2008 - 7:45am
The Tribunal's final verdict summarized much of Colombia’s recent history, condemning the Colombian government, 43 multinational corporations, and the U.S....

Honduras: Garifuna Resistance to Mega-Tourism in Tela Bay

Wed, 08/06/2008 - 5:02pm
Garifuna communities have managed to survive numerous perils over the last 400 years: slavery, military aggressions by several European nations,...

Colombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro Wolf

Wed, 08/06/2008 - 3:12pm
Antonio Navarro Wolf, a former guerrilla leader of the M-19 and currently governor of Nariño, talks with Upside Down World...

‘A New Alliance of the Americas’? Reflections of 1961 for Obama in 2008

Tue, 08/05/2008 - 10:36am
In 2008, as the new regional dynamic of the Left continues to develop, now most often from within the seats...

Indigenous Organizations to Support Ecuador’s Constitution

Thu, 07/31/2008 - 11:42am
In a lengthy meeting on July 29, Ecuador’s highland Indigenous organization Ecuarunari decided to support in a tepid and tentative...

Venezuelan Youth: A Potential Antidote to the Weaknesses of the Revolution

Tue, 07/29/2008 - 1:47pm
In Venezuela, the organised revolutionary youth have the potential to be an antidote to old capitalist habits of corruption, bureaucracy,...

What is the Venezuelan News Media Actually Like?

Tue, 07/29/2008 - 8:24am
21 Caracas Daily Newspapers, Diverse Community Radio and TV Stations, Disprove the US-Propagated Myths

Wayward Allies: President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian Left

Fri, 07/25/2008 - 12:03pm
Outside of Ecuador, most progressives consider President Rafael Correa to be a Leftist champion of social and economic justice. Inside...

Total Recall in Bolivia: Divided Nation Faces Historic Vote

Wed, 07/23/2008 - 1:05pm
In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote...

Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections of an Anarchist

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:21pm
Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give...

Guatemala: Forced Disappearance and the Search for Justice in El Jute

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 12:54pm
We are fighting so that our kids won’t ever have to know the pain of what we lived through...

Bolivian President Evo Morales on the WTO’s Round of Negotiations

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:27am
The WTO negotiations have turned into a fight by developed countries to open markets in developing countries to favor their...

A Recent History of the Disability Rights Movement in El Salvador

Fri, 07/18/2008 - 8:29am
Many argue that El Salvador has come a long way towards trying to repair its disabled past by declaring itself...