Horizontalism & Autonomy
Today's social movements in Latin America that are creating change from within.
Fall
2014
Volume:
47
Number:
3
Taking Note
Over the past three years, the use of horizontalism to describe new social relationships under construction has proliferated.
From Around the Region
Although a rallying cry for the global abortion rights movement, these 17 Salvadoran women did not purposefully end their own pregnancies. Instead, they suffered a combination of obstetrical complications and poverty.
New import restrictions strain the transnational people-to-people flow of goods on which government economic reforms unofficially depend.
A new conservative talking point holds that regional newspapers are inaccurately reporting on U.S. immigration policy, creating a stampede of undocumented minors over the U.S.-Mexico border.
With raw material exports at the center of a fast-growing trade relationship with China, Latin American countries face disproportionate economic, social, and environmental risks, and should be bracing for them now.
Panamanians may be able to see Noriega’s secret files—and to reclaim their troubled past.
Without clear legislation governing street prostitution in Ecuador, sex workers band together to battle frequent and arbitrary police crackdowns—and win.
For the past two years, teachers unions have battled the Peña Nieto administration’s creeping authoritarianism, democratizing the movement in the process.
María Pilar García-Guadilla discusses the violent protests that shook Venezuela this year, and their impact on the legacy and policy goals of Chavismo today.
Report
The past 15 years in Cuba have witnessed a resurgence of groups who focus on self-organization, use the assembly form as a way of making decisions, and are dedicated to non-hierarchical forms of organization.
The ALBA-TCP aims at consolidating a regional space of social, cultural, and economic integration based on the prioritization of social rights and welfare, barter, and mutual support.
In Peru and Argentina, local communities are mobilizing to halt mega extraction projects, creating new models for movement building based in the defense of the environment.
More than merely a tool for assemblies, horizontalism is a new way of relating, based in affective politics and mutual empowerment.
Brazil's bus fare increase was the spark that unleashed a larger political process that had been simmering for years.
At the end of his speech, one thing is clear: Galeano is and will continue to be the unforgettable companion.
How civil society is re-encountering itself in Mexico, from the 1985 earthquake reconstruction to the Zapatistas.
Cochabamba’s water committees continue to reinvent Bolivian autonomous traditions in the face of a newly redefined, but highly centralist state.
Poetry
Reviews
The pro-migrant bloc is split between those with mainstream institutional support and those without it. Their opposing visions of justice start here.
From the Archive
Like the tip of an iceberg, the appearance of millions of street children in Latin American cities represents a tragedy of great proportions.