Privitizations and Its Discontents

Two separate and very different ideas about economic development and workers rights have emerged in Mexico. The differences are deep,

When the Vásquez family’s phone line was installed in mid-1990, they threw a party. After all, they’d paid $1,000 and

Why do governments need to borrow money from the IDB when a public enterprise is sold off to private buyers?

According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the regional inter-governmental bank and largest multilateral lender for Latin America, Latin America is

Argentina began an international railroad privatization trend in 1991, when its Rosario to Bahía Blanca line was turned over to

As this is written in mid-January, Venezuela’s fourth business-led general strike in a year is into its seventh week. At

Before April 2000, few people outside of Bolivia had ever heard of Cochabamba, a city of 600,000 tucked away in

Emcali is the public company that provides water, energy and telecom services to two million people in and around Cali,

In a policy shift that signals an escalation of U.S. involvement in Colombia’s civil war, U.S. Special Forces are training

In El Salvador, efforts to put the public health system into private hands have provoked a wave of opposition: Last

In the 1930s and 40s, General Lázaro Cárdenas made nationalization of economic resources and land reform symbols of Mexican national

Neoliberalism has not always ruled the world. In Latin America the wholesale privatization of state companies, from water supplies to