Road Rage and Resistance: Bolivia’s TIPNIS Conflict | NACLA
WEBPolice blockade the TIPNIS march (credit: March Communications Commission) Tensions mounted when several hundred pro-MAS colonists, backed by federal police, established a road blockade near the Beni–La Paz border. On September 25, the police brutally repressed the protesters, wounding at least 45. The police action was widely condemned.
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WEBRomina Green Rioja, Roger Merino, Nayla Luz Vacarezza. August 27, 2024. The lofty promises of plurinationalism remain an unfinished project. The Fall 2024 NACLA Report explores how plurinational politics are organized and …
I. Concentration and Competition in Steel | NACLA
WEBIn 1901 a series of high-level mergers effectively terminated the era of active competition in the U.S. steel industry. The United States Steel Corporation, or "Big Steel," as it came to be known, was the powerful progeny of three of the largest financial groups of the time: the Andrew Carnegie group, the J.P. Morgan group and the W.H. Moore group.
Monitoring the U.S. Military Presence in Latin America | NACLA
WEBMarch 13, 2008. Tweet. Adam Isacson, Joy Olson and Lisa Haugaard. The physical presence of U.S. military personnel throughout the hemisphere has changed substantially during the past ten years. Back in 1997, large military bases were the rule, most of them in the former Panama Canal Zone. The Southern Command (SouthCom)—which is …
A Spark of Hope: The Ongoing Lessons of the Zapatista ... - NACLA
WEBDec 21, 2022 · January 1, 2019 marked 25 years since the Zapatistas captured the world’s imagination with their brief but audacious uprising to demand justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in southern Mexico. While never formally laying down its weapons, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN ...
Remembering Chile’s U.S.-backed Coup, 50 Years On - NACLA
WEBO n September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in a CIA-supported coup, installing a ruthless 17-year dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the U.S.-backed military junta killed or forcibly disappeared more than 3,000 people and tortured more than 40,000, the country became the laboratory for neoliberal policy with ...
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WEBOUR MISSION. T he North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to examine and critique U.S. imperialism and political, economic, and military intervention in the Western hemisphere. In an evolving political and media landscape, we continue to work toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are ...
Remembering Brazil's Military Coup 50 Years Later | NACLA
WEBApr 1, 2014 · President João Goulart fled to Uruguay, and with him went the hopes of progressive reforms. April 1, 2014. Tweet. NACLA. Yesterday and today mark the 50-year-anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup d’etat in Brazil. The coup kicked off a brutal twenty-year-long military dictatorship. Similar military coups would follow in Bolivia, Chile ...
Keeping 2001 Open: Argentina’s Uprising 20 Years Later
WEBDec 18, 2021 · On December 19 and 20, 2001, a popular rebellion erupted in Argentina. With the economy in freefall, people took to the streets with a clear refrain: “Que se vayan todos. ” The government soon defaulted on its massive debt, and many new experiments in horizontal organizing and grassroots economic alternatives came to life. Colectivo Situaciones, a radical research collective based in ...
Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin …
WEBReconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin America. Tweet. Marisol de la Cadena. September 25, 2007. One of the most puzzling, disconcerting phenomena that the non-native visitor confronts while traveling in Latin America is the relative ease with which pervasive and very visible discriminatory practices coexist with the denial ...