Voices From the Oaxacan Insurgency

Voices From the Oaxacan Insurgency

People were tired with the plantón, fed up with us teachers encamped in the zócalo. But with the repression, Ulises
Cuba: A Half-Century of Distorted News and Counting . . .

Cuba: A Half-Century of Distorted News and Counting . . .

Since January 1959, nearly half a century ago, U.S. mass media have reflected the views of the U.S. government and
An Evo of the People

An Evo of the People

Cocalero (DVD, 97 minutes), a film by ALejandro Landes, 2007, distributed by Morocha Films, www.cocalero.com Evo Pueblo (DVD, 90 minutes),
Venezuela's Past in the Chavista Present

Venezuela’s Past in the Chavista Present

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon by Steve Ellner, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008, 260 pp., $55 hardcover
The Oaxaca Commune: Struggling for Autonomy and Dignity

The Oaxaca Commune: Struggling for Autonomy and Dignity

For almost six months in 2006, an unstructured coalition of workers, students, peasants, women, youth, indigenous peoples, and urban poor
Guatemala’s Genocide: Survivors Speak

Guatemala’s Genocide: Survivors Speak

Guatemala took a small step toward justice on February 4, when an international genocide case charging eight former senior officials
Carrying on the Struggle: El Comité 68

Carrying on the Struggle: El Comité 68

In 2004, when Ignacio Carrillo Prieto, Mexico’s special prosecutor for past social and political movements, sought an arrest for ex-president
Learning, Surviving: Marcos After the Rupture

Learning, Surviving: Marcos After the Rupture

Last summer, reading a news article about the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, organized by the Zapatista
Combating Impunity and Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Combating Impunity and Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Over the past 15 years, some 400 women have been murdered, and hundreds more have disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, the
Against Impunity: The Decline of the Mexican Social Compact, Part I

Against Impunity: The Decline of the Mexican Social Compact, Part I

Since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, Mexico has lived through the slow disintegration of the corporate state created
The Resilience of Impunity: NACLA and Mexico, 1968–2008

The Resilience of Impunity: NACLA and Mexico, 1968–2008

You can’t always blame it on empire. NACLA was formed to investigate the relations between the United States and its
Guatemala’s Genocide: Survivors Speak

Guatemala’s Genocide: Survivors Speak

Guatemala took a small step toward justice on February 4, when an international genocide case charging eight former senior officials