Political Environments: Development, Dissent, and the New Extraction

Acción ecológica, uno de los grupos ambientalistas más conocidos en América Latina, ha liderado la pelea en contra de los

El 28 de Septiembre, 2008, 64% de los electores en Ecuador aprovaron una nueva constitución, de corte progresista, lanzándose una

In the early morning hours of January 31, vandals broke into Tiferet Israel, a Sephardic synagogue in Caracas. They strewed

On September 28, 2008, 64% of voters in Ecuador approved a progressive new constitution, launching a new political era in

On the afternoon of April 15, an immigration and Customs Enforcement flight landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, carrying 45 “criminal deportees”—non-citizen

People on the streets of Ilhéus, one of Brazil’s oldest colonial cities, are furious. Wearing shirts adorned with a drawing

Since 2004, Canadian mining giant Goldcorp has been extracting gold from the Guatemalan highlands. Operated by Goldcorp’s local subsidiary, Montana

Soon after soldiers burst into the Honduran presidential palace at dawn on June 28, held President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya at

Misrepresenting Today’s Sandinista Politics? Roger Burbach’s article in the NACLA Report’s March/April issue (“Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed”)

Acción Ecológica, one of Latin America’s most well-known environmental groups, had led the fight against Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa’s plans

¡Salud! (DVD, 2006), a documentary film by Connie Field, 93 mins., distributed by MEDICC (saludthefilm.net) In many countries in the

As with so much else in South America’s landlocked and impoverished heartland, Bolivia’s natural environment excels in superlatives: It is