NACLA Update 03/26/09 - Food Crisis in the Americas Subscription Offer




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Clean Energy Plays Dirty in Oaxaca
by Zach Dyer

Generating enough electricity to power a small city while offsetting several hundred thousand tons of carbon emissions sounds like an ideal source of eco-friendly energy. But tell that to the residents of La Ventosa in Oaxaca, Mexico. The construction of Latin America's largest wind farm on these communal campesino lands in the wind-whipped Isthmus of Tehuantepec is threatening their lands and their livelihoods.
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Mexico's Unspent Revolutionary Legacies: An Interview With Historian Alan Knight
by Fred Rosen

Alan Knight, a specialist on the Mexican Revolution, once wrote, "Revolutionary generations die, but the legacy of (especially successful) revolutions is never entirely spent." In this interview, he discusses revolutionary icons, the competing claims to revolutionary legitimacy by contemporary political actors, and official amnesia over tensions within the revolution, among other topics.
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Coming soon from the award-winning NACLA Report:
Food Crisis in the Americas

The mainstream media parachuted in to cover food riots throughout the world, and quickly moved on. But NACLA Report is committed to bringing you the overlooked, the under-reported, and the covered-up throughout the Americas, so the upcoming May/June issue will examine the causes and consequences of the ongoing food crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This issue will include an in-depth analysis on the monopoly of food production by transnational corporations and the need for food sovereignty in Latin America; coverage of the Via Campesina's Fifth International Conference in Maputo as a response to the crisis; a conversation with the owner of a collectively-supported taqueria in Oaxaca; a stunning photo essay portraying the displacement of farm workers as a consequence of large-scale genetically modified soy production in Paraguay; and much, much more.

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This special offer is only available to first'time, domestic subscribers and is valid until April 13, 2009.

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Toward a New US Latin America Foreign Policy - Sovereignty, Elections and Immigration. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago

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U.S. Trade Policy & its Impacts on Food, Land, and Immigration. University of California at Berkeley

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