NACLA Update 11/18/10 - Rally Against Uribe Appointment/Bolivia Lithium Industry




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Nov/Dec: Power, Justice, and Survival: Latino Politics Today
The articles collected in this edition of the NACLA Report cover the emergence of contemporary Latino social movements and shed light on the structural basis for Latino politics on the ground. They capture the sub-national and transnational dimensions of Latino social movements on questions around immigration policy, U.S. intervention in El Salvador, and in some cases for the very right to be indigenous, Afro-Latino, a woman, or all of the above. As several of the authors note, such struggles do not take place in a vacuum but in a structural context of the global economic crisis, and in the shadow of an ongoing national debate around immigration and citizenship under the Obama administration that could either facilitate or limit the potential for progressive interracial coalitions.
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Rally Against Uribe's Appointment at Georgetown
by Rachel Winch
In August, Georgetown University appointed former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe as a "Distinguished Scholar," despite accusations that he had been behind serious human rights violations in his home country. While Uribe received a warm welcome from university officials, many students and faculty have not been so comfortable with his appointment, although it follows a history of Georgetown appointing powerful and controversial figures (including former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar) to posts as professors. On November 3, many rallied on the Georgetown campus against Uribe's appointment, and this culminated with law students handing the former Colombian president a subpoena.
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Bolivia Bets on State-Run Lithium Industry
by Emily Achtenberg
The Bolivian government will commit $900 million to develop a state-run lithium industry, using the country's unexploited reserves which are estimated to hold 70% of the world's total of this metal. The potential of this industry (lithium is widely used in ceramics, glass, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, and batteries for portable electronic devices) has raised great expectations, along with many questions about Bolivia's lithium strategy—including the role and choice of foreign partners, the market for Bolivia's lithium products, and the potential environmental and political impacts of lithium development.
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