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This series contains texts from writers across the hemisphere on the strides made by social movements, the role of gender equity and women's rights, and the stumbling advances and the steps backwards in guaranteeing respect for human rights. It also contains a sub-series on the self-organized movement in Oaxaca, Mexico that startled the world by taking over the city in 2006 and running it for several months.

Megaproyectos de infraestructura están cambiando la geografía social, político y físico de América Latina. La Iniciativa para la Integración de Infraestructura Regional Sudamericana (IIRSA), el Plan Puebla Panamá y otras propuestas diseñadas para promover el comercio, la integración energética y el acceso a recursos naturales tendrán impactos ambientales y sociales importantes. En esta serie, los analistas del Programa de las Américas monitorean los proyectos, sus impactos, su financiamiento y las respuestas ciudadanas.

Large scale infrastructure projects are changing the social, political, and physical geography of Latin America. The South American Regional Integration and Infrastructure Project (IIRSA), Plan Puebla Panama, and other proposals designed to promote trade, energy integration, and access to natural resources will have important environmental and social impacts. In this series, Americas Policy Program analysts monitor the projects, their impact, financing, and citizen response.

Desde la experiencia de Colombia con la palma aceitera, el nuevo papel de Brasil en abastecer al mundo con etanol a base de caña de azúcar, planes para producción de agrocombustibles en América Central, hasta la conversión del maíz de alimento a energía en los Estados Unidos—las iniciativas de agrocombustibles están cambiando el uso de suelo y las economías en todo el hemisferio. Analistas del Programa de las Américas de estos y otros países llaman la atención al debate sobre los agrocombustibles y sus impactos sociales y ambientales.

Colombia's experience with palm oil biodiesel, Brazil's new role in supplying the world with sugarcane-based ethanol, planned agrofuel production in Central America, and corn's conversion from food to fuel in the United States—the agrofuels push is changing land use and economies throughout the hemisphere. Analysts of the Americas Policy Program from these countries and others shed light on the rising debate over agrofuels and its social and environmental impacts.

Inequidades en el sistema mundial de alimentos han sido agravadas por eventos recientes que han creado el llamado crisis de alimentación. Pero, ¿cual es el trasfondo de los titulares? Esta nueva serie investiga los agrocombustibles, políticas de comercio, cambio climático y aumentos en demanda para buscar las causas verídicas y que hay que hacer para solucionarlo.

Inequalities in the world's food system have been aggravated by recent developments to create the much talked-about food crisis. But what is behind the headlines? This new series delves into agrofuels, trade policy, corporate concentration, climate change, and rising demand to help sort out the real causes of the crisis and what needs to be done about it.

A series of articles on immigration to engender dialogue and provide food for thought on the issues.

Haiti today is a tragic case study of how developing nations can lose the sovereign right to ensure access to healthcare when they lose their right to local food self-sufficiency under globalization.

Argentina se encuentra enfrascada hoy en una profunda crisis política, que contrasta con la mejor coyuntura económica en varias décadas. Pero ¿dónde está el debate sobre el futuro del país?

Foreign travelers account for nearly $13 billion of the tourist revenue, so fewer foreign travelers translates into economic pain. Tourism generates more money than the maquiladora export industry or remittances sent home by U.S.-based migrants.

No debiera ser demasiado esperar que el gobierno mexicano dé la bienvenida a sus ciudadanos de regreso a casa: que esté presente ahí, en la frontera, con organismos que proporcionen abrigo, alimento, transporte y atención médica a todos los cientos de miles de Raymundos y Raymundas que están volviendo a su patria muy a pesar suyo.

The change is not confined to Colombia—although it has its epicenter there—but extends to countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and affects the entire region.

It shouldn't be too much to expect that the Mexican government welcome its citizens back home—to be there at the border with agencies that provide shelter, food, transportation, and medical attention for all the hundreds of thousands of Raymundos and Raymundas who are unwillingly coming home.

Hace apenas medio siglo los Bañados eran una ciénaga sobre la que el río Paraguay desbordaba sus aguas en épocas de lluvias. Eran, también el vertedero de basura de Asunción. Hoy es uno de los barrios más poblados, donde la extrema pobreza se vuelve tolerable gracias a una increíble solidaridad.

The verdict is still out on the long-term outcome of the Oaxaca social movement of 2006, but what we can already clearly see is the resonant power of rights discourses when harnessed with a cultural form that actively empowers those to speak who have been silenced and makes what they have to say understandable to others who are hearing their voices for the first time.

Mexico has lived through the slow disintegration of the corporate state created and controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), its gradual replacement by a multi-party, neoliberal state, and the emergence of new sources of governance and power: private and public, transnational and national, criminal and legal.

Las IFRs encierran muchas oportunidades para un desarrollo autónomo de la región, pero necesitan de profundas reformas y actualizaciones en sus operaciones.

Oaxacans who had invested so much in the social struggle of 2006—some of them who risked, and lost, their jobs, family members, or even their own lives—have learned the hard way that the un-armed, pacifist route of massive civil disobedience does not work.