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El Salvador: Community Fights Private Waste Dump Construction

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 6:49pm
Salvadoran Supreme Court agrees to hear environmental damage claims after bribery and heavy police violence fail to fracture opposition to...

Video Interview: Edward Herman on Latin America & the US

Tue, 12/30/2008 - 12:53pm
Longtime activist and author Edward S. Herman was interviewed in Philadelphia on December 26, 2008. In this interview, Herman discusses...

United for Change in El Salvador: Video on 2009 Elections

Tue, 12/30/2008 - 9:28am
Recent polls in El Salvador show that the leftist FMLN party is 14 points ahead over the right-wing presidential candidate...

Venezuela's ALBA in the face of the Global Economic Crisis

Mon, 12/29/2008 - 4:28am
In response to the G20 Summit in Washington D.C. last month, Chavez established an equivalent, the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative of...

Haiti and the Danger of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Mon, 12/22/2008 - 9:06pm
As an emerging lobby advocates for the institutionalization of a controversial doctrine of humanitarian imperialism, and a...

Canadian Company Threatens El Salvador with Free Trade Lawsuit Over Mining Project

Fri, 12/19/2008 - 7:17am
A Canadian mining company intends to sue El Salvador's government for several hundred million dollars if it is not granted...

Finding Common Ground in Crisis: Social Movements in South America and the US

Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:43pm
People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements....

Argentina: 50,000 March against Hunger

Wed, 12/17/2008 - 7:10am
They were from trade unions, social movements, organizations of relatives of the “disappeared,” student groups, political groups, social workers and...

A Revolution Without Borders: Reappraising Bolivia’s Crisis

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 8:52am
Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to...

Events Commemorate 40th Anniversary of Brazil’s ‘Coup Within the Coup D'etat’

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 8:24am
The demonstrators dressed in brightly colored outfits sang their song of protest proudly, but it was really only symbolic. Shock...

Support Grassroots Media! Keep Upside Down World Going Into 2009!

Sat, 12/13/2008 - 9:13am
Dear Readers,With a new US President about to take office and social and political change in Latin America entering a...

Ecuador Defaults on Foreign Debt

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 6:06pm
President Rafael Correa declared on Friday that Ecuador would not make a $30.6 million interest payment on $510 million in bonds due...

Colombian Cane Cutters Score Victory, But Struggle of Afro-Colombians Continues

Thu, 12/11/2008 - 9:10am
Sugar cane cutters in Colombia, most of them Afro-Colombian and indigenous, won a major victory with the end of a...

Colombia: Social Conflict Replaces Warfare

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 4:38pm
Social conflict has overtaken the center of the political stage, displacing President Alvaro Uribe, who merely repeats the script that...

Workers Occupy Chicago Factory: Echoes of Argentina’s 2001 Worker Uprising

Mon, 12/08/2008 - 1:31pm
When 250 workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago were told that the plant was shutting down,...

Indigenous Justice in Colombia

Mon, 12/08/2008 - 10:14am
On November 26th, seven people were kidnapped on the road leading out of Jambaló's town center, in the village of...

Adentro Barrio Adentro: An American Medical Student in Venezuela

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 8:06am
When Barrio Adentro began in December 2003, few could have foreseen the broad changes ahead for the small villages that...

Pain and Protest on the Day of the Butterflies: Violence Persists Against Women in Mexico

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 7:56pm
In Mexico, more than 200 women's and human rights activists kicked off a cross-country caravan in Ciudad Juarez to protest...

The Presidential Transition and Latin America Policy: Optimism for Change Dims as Reality Sets In

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 5:39am
So much of the Bush legacy in the hemisphere has been shaped by the you’re either with us or...

Dealing with Killers and Kidnappers: The High Cost of Free Trade

Tue, 12/02/2008 - 7:30am
President Bush is using his final days in office to push through a free trade agreement with Colombia that would...