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Collins: Fernando Lugo and the Rebirth of Liberation Theology
Blog Post, August, 23 2008
Boyd Collins
Collins's ZSpace page
The election of Fernando Lugo, ex-bishop of the poor, signals a new era in Latin America, and the revival of liberation theology in the face of Vatican resistance
Sitrin: Farmers Strike in Argentina: Was it a Victory and Where Is the Left?
Blog Post, August, 01 2008
Marina Sitrin
Sitrin's ZSpace page
The four-month long farmers’ strike that at times paralyzed parts of the Argentine economy is over. The big question now is, who won, the right or the left. In most struggles this is not even a question, much less a complicated one. In Argentina, ...
Sitrin: Does a Referendum Manifest Power? Where is Power? The Case of Bolivia
Blog Post, July, 26 2008
Marina Sitrin
Sitrin's ZSpace page
One of the biggest questions facing social movements in Latin America over the course of the past decade is the question of power. Where is power? What is power? And how to organize
Chomsky: South America
Blog Post, July, 22 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The steps towards integration are real, but face great obstacles. The countries have different interests, and there are cross-cutting conflicts of a very serious sort. Take Ecuador. The large indigenous population shares interests with the larg...
Gramnes: Patriarchy and the Catholic Church do it again!
Blog Post, July, 10 2008
Jens Gramnes
Gramnes's ZSpace page
Reaction to the rejection of the right to abortion in Brazil
Simpson: Free to Choose Terrorism
Blog Post, June, 08 2008
Bob Simpson
Simpson's ZSpace page
What is the relationship between free trade, free markets and terrorism?
Mcgehee: Union of South American Nations
Blog Post, May, 27 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
Union of South American Nations
Doe: A View of Impunity from Vista Hermosa:Paramilitary Violence and Migration in Rural Oaxaca
Blog Post, April, 27 2008
Jon Doe
Doe's ZSpace page
The Roots of migration from Mexico as Human Rights Abuse and paramilitary Violence. A look the Rural Oaxacan town of VIsta Hermosa.
Le vallois: Meeting the People in Cuba
Blog Post, April, 18 2008
Jonathan Le vallois
Le vallois's ZSpace page
A report on things learned whilst visiting Cuba.
Hansen: Roberto
Blog Post, April, 13 2008
Sven Hansen
Hansen's ZSpace page
Roberto is a working boy in Managua. His life at 16 is a portrait of an everyday, small tragedy. They don't come bigger.
Spannos: Real Utopia Videos
Blog Post, April, 12 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Book panel at the Left Forum, March 2008.
Denvir: How Green is the Latin American Left? A Look at Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia
Blog Post, April, 06 2008
Daniel Denvir
Denvir's ZSpace page
Across Latin America, resurgent indigenous, labor and campesino movements have contributed to the rise of new governments that declare their independence from the neoliberal economic model, promise a more equitable distribution of wealth and incre...
Hansen: Autonomous women lash out at Daniel Ortega
Blog Post, March, 24 2008
Sven Hansen
Hansen's ZSpace page
On March 8, the Autonomous Women's Movement of Nicaragua attacked Sandinista gender policies: "Political Messianism and church rhetoric about obligatory motherhood, that is what the red-black heaven offers the poor."
Dickey: You Grow Down in the Ground
Blog Post, March, 15 2008
Charles Dickey
Dickey's ZSpace page
Apples grow on trees, insects tend weeds and leaves, clouds make rain, people talk through problems. In Nicaragua, the people have set tanks and guns in concrete, created a peace park by stopping and enclosing
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century
Blog Post, March, 01 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
After three years of organizing and editing, the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press) will finally be released in May.
Spannos: Solidarity with Cuba
Blog Post, February, 24 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Memories and realities of solidarity with the island nation...
Beyman: A Critique of the Left, James Petras
Blog Post, February, 17 2008
Lewis Beyman
Beyman's ZSpace page
James Petras, Analysis of the left in LA. His analysis of Venezuela is not so sanguine. This is a long analysis of the politics in Latin America, particularly the status of the left. It is a very dismal view in which he blames liberal ideology ...
Hansen: Nicaragua: A year with the Boliviarian Republic
Blog Post, January, 29 2008
Sven Hansen
Hansen's ZSpace page
A look at Sandinista policies on the budget, energy concessions and the IMF show that Sandinista economic policies are far from revolutionary.
Keegan: Tortilla Revolution!
Blog Post, January, 25 2008
Keegan Keegan
Keegan's ZSpace page
This is a story about my experiences taking part in strengthening an organization of poor indigenous people and the government's fight against their existence.
Keegan: Paz y Dignidad
Blog Post, January, 20 2008
Keegan Keegan
Keegan's ZSpace page
Experiencias en las montanias de Chiapas y la destruccion suave.
