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Carlos Vilas
We are approaching the 30th anniver- sary of the October 1967 death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia-an event one would think of as favorable for the appearance of remembrances, homages, business deals and, hope- fully, serious reflections. In fact, a Carlos Vilas is a sociologist and historian at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a member of NACLA's editorial board.
Carlos Heredia
The Mexican government doesn't really care about us," says Jesds Herndndez, a Mexican migrant worker in Tijuana. "We are routine- ly ripped off by Mexican police and beaten by the U.
Robert Smith
For many sellers the choice is between working for poor wages or accepting the danger and uncertainty of selling on the street. "T wice they Brought me S to jail!" exclaims a Mexican flower vendor in New York City.
José La Luz & Ottoniel Figueroa
The largest employer in Puerto Rico today is the Government. Public service workers presently total 285,000 or roughly 26% of the workforkforce.
Barbara Belejack
Kunanqa rihsisunchisya Runa Simita, inkakunah rimayninta, Kay musuhiianpi, Supercarretera de Informacion, Internetpa Kancharyninwan. ven for those who don't speak a word of Quechua, the phrase Supercarretera de Informacion, Internetpa, is a dead give-away.
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Hector Figueroa
The earliest Mexican-American workers lived in the parts of northern Mexico that became the U.S.
Brazil's Landless Movement Wins Support in Cities SAo PAULO, OCTOBER 18, 1996 The age-old struggle for land reform in Brazil has gained prominent nation- al exposure this year, largely due to the increased number of spon- taneous land takeovers by land- less peasants. As the plight of the landless reaches state capi- tals via newspapers, the Internet, and even a highly-acclaimed TV soap opera, the movement of the landless has forged alliances with inner-city laborers and the unemployed, gaining crucial urban support for its rural bat- tles.
While it's too early to talk about a new movement, it's certainly encouraging ful municipal unions, to the AFL-CIO itself, new leadership has revived labor's historical mandate to organize the unorganized and rally the oppressed. And right in the middle of this revival are U.
Linda Ocasio
When Edgar deJesus was growing up in East Harlem in the late 1960s, he was surrounded by the sights and sounds of a generation awakening to its own power. The Young Lords, a group of young Puerto Ricans committed to seizing the day on behalf of a commu- nity, commandeered a local church as the site for a children's breakfast program.
Robin Kirk
Yanira Merino is no stranger to trouble. So she has made trouble a kind of teacher, to refine and strengthen her com- mitment to justice.
Anette Fuentes
Ignored until recently by all but a small, committed group of supporters, 15 Puerto Rican political prison- ers still locked away in jails across the United States are a living reminder of U.S.
Hector Figueroa
Organizing among Puerto Rican workers in their homeland and the United States has been shaped by the way the island has been incorporated into the U.S.
The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean by Helen I. Safa, Westview Press, 1995, 208 pp.
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IMF: One Step Closer to a Global State When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank held par- allel annual meetings in Washington last month, Latin America portfolio managers were paying attention. Investors wanted to know if the IMF would succeed in doubling its capital base to 200 billion dollars, and-a related issue-if it would be able to finance a reduction in devel- oping-country debt burden.
Hector Figueroa
Thirty years ago Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers union (UFW) brought new life to an otherwise quiescent labor movement. Today, Latino trade unionists like this UFW organizer (right), have moved to the forefront of the U.
Hector Figueroa
Service Employees' International Union (SEIU) SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign is perhaps the most successful model to date for organizing and winning contracts for immigrant workers. Under Justice for Janitors, SEIU has managed to organize over 35,000 worer 35,000 workers, mostly immigrants, in less than a decade.