Crisis And Change: Colombia And Brazil

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”—Arundhati

“I was born in Redentor near Tenente Portela in the north of Rio Grande do Sul state. My father farmed

“We will carry out an ambitious program of agrarian reform that will make land available to thousands and thousands of

Brazilian economist Celso Furtado, now 82 years old, was one of Latin America’s most influential economic and social thinkers during

From the time it was founded in the early 1980s, the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) has maintained that electoral success

Human Rights Watch researcher Robin Kirk says her intention in More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in

Imagine this: Congressional representatives scramble out of their seats, ignoring their leader’s exhortations to remain calm. They sprint out the

In 1997—back when there was no such thing as a “war on terror” and George W. Bush was just a

In this NACLA Report we look closely at two nations—Colombia and Brazil—that seem to be on very different trajectories as

It is impossible to understand the participatory methods of the lrazilian Workers' Party (PT) without recognizing the important contribution made

Last December, when then President-elect Lula da Silva met with the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO in a celebratory gathering

On October 27, 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—lathe operator, metalworker, undisputed leader of the independent labor movement that emerged