¡YA! Youth Activism

Despite a vigorous nationwide search and a handful of traffic-snarling protests, Edward Francisco Contreras is still missing. The 21-year-old student

Dozens upon dozens of young people lie sprawled across the floor of the Caracas airport. Despite the fluorescent glare, most

Teenage actors parade barefoot onstage, jumping and pounding drums. Others walk in with notebooks and briefcases overflowing with papers. Each

The flood of deported gang members from Los Angeles and other U.S. inner cities to El Salvador and the rest

The world has had more than ten years to ponder the significance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.

Welcome to the inaugural installment of ¡YA! Youth Activism. As a now-recurring feature of the NACLA Report, this section will

“What we are witnessing here is a phenomenon of the ongoing transformation of the role played by youths in Mexican

“This isn’t a book, it’s a brick with which to shatter cynicism,” said Luther Blisset, a group of Italian anarchists.

At the end of 2004, the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers http://www.child-soldiers.org released one of its

Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate

If Brazil’s pulse were audible, it would be a drumbeat. Undoubtedly, music breathes life into so many hallmarks of the

Red Juvenil, or Youth Network, was founded in 1990 in the poor barrios of Medellín, Colombia, “to promote youth participation