¡Adelante! The New Rural Activism in the Americas

In July 1997, the paramilitary group known as the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC) went on a grisly killing

In many parts of Latin America, rural social movements have taken center stage in their nations' politics. In Brazil, the

In the mid-1990s, the World Bank reported that for the first time in history less than half the world's labor

In the pre-dawn hours of June 7, 1998, Mexican Army troops surrounded a small schoolhouse in El Charco, a Mixtec

The morning mist begins to lift from the small rural settlement of Lucio Cabañas, revealing hints—both welcome and ominous—that a

The social struggles of Brazil's landless agricultural workers and small producers over the past two decades have developed in the

Though the victory of Alfonso Portillo in Guatemala's December presidential runoff was fully expected, his resounding victory—and that of the

"The population has to take sides with the authorities because the ones who have been displaced are delinquents, or guerrillas

A stranger arriving in Chile during the recent presidential election campaign and traveling from the Santiago airport to the city

As a writer, I suppose I just can't help it. Even when I am in the midst of a major

At about 9:45 on the morning of January 21, a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people from the Ecuadorian highlands, burst

At age 41, Antonio Vargas, an Amazonian Quichua, is a 20-year veteran of the indigenous movement. President of the Confederation