Recently added articles from NACLA Report on the Americas:
Debating the Raids: A Misstatement and a Disagreement/Editor Pablo Morales replies
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his article in the November/December issue, "Building the Homeland Security State," Roberto Lovato says: "David Bacon posits that the crackdown is purposefully meant to trigger an immigrant-labor shortage, which will eventually enable the government to establish the migration policy it's been ...
The Meltdown: North and South
Jan 01, 2009; ... AS THE U.S. ECONOMY CONTINUES TO TANK, Latin America is caught up in the global freefall. As demand contracts, the prices of the region's principal exports - crude oil, natural gas, metals, grains, livestock, and food-are plummeting, converting the regions terms of trade from pretty good ...
El Salvador 2009: A 'Change' Year?
Jan 01, 2009; ... A BRIGHT RED TENT GLOWS WITH THE PENetrating light of San Salvador's midday sun. Streamers with triangular red-andblack FMLN banners hang from the tent's every corner, and blaring merengue sets a festive tone. Across the street 22 men and their entourages battle it out on a grassless soccer ...
Against the Law of the Jungle: Peru's Amazonian Uprising
Jan 01, 2009; ... BETWEEN AUGUST 9 AND 20, THOUSANDS OF Awajun, Wampis, Matsiguenka, Shipibo, and other indigenous peoples of the Amazon mounted an unprecedented series of simultaneous, peaceful demonstrations against the Peruvian state. The protesters, organized under an umbrella group called the Inter-Ethnic ...
Bridging the Gap: Philip Agee, 1935-2008
Jan 01, 2009; ... AS A SOPHOMORE ATTENDING AN INTERNAtional high school in Germany in 1979, I used to come home after school and ask my dad - a former CIA case officer named Philip Agee - what was really happening in places like Nicaragua, Grenada, Cuba, Angola, and the Middle East. Our high school history ...
Not Just Change, but Justice: Taking On Policy in the Obama Era
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction A FEW DAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING, THE BROOKINGS Institution, reflecting the views of a broad swath of U.S. officialdom, issued a lengthy report calling for substantial changes in U.S. Latin America policy. The report identified several abject policy "failures," changes to ...
Progressive Policy for the Americas? A NACLA Roundtable
Jan 01, 2009; ... IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, NACLA INVITED LESLEY GILL, Greg Grandin, Deborah Paole, and Mark Weisbrot to participate in a roundtable discussion on the question of proposing a progressive U.S. foreign policy agenda toward Latin America. What follows is an amended version of that conversation, moderated ...
The Minga of Resistance: Policy Making From Below
Jan 01, 2009; ... ON NOVEMBER 10, 2008, THE ASSOCIATION of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN) sent a letter to Barack Obama. After congratulating him on his electoral victory, the group called on Obama to make good on his promise of change, extending an invitation to the new president to jointly fulfill ...
Beyond the Four Freedoms: Obama and Sovereignty
Jan 01, 2009; ... TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT BARACK OBAMA'S foreign policy will be, we should watch Latin America. The region has long lived like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, a reliable indicator of what's in store for the rest of the world when circumstances prompt Washington to shift diplomatic direction ....
Colombia: What's Next?
Jan 01, 2009; ... AS MUCH OF LATIN AMERICA DRIFTS AWAY from the U.S. orbit, and the financial crisis further discredits neoliberalism, U.S. progressives have an important opportunity to push for a more enlightened Colombia policy. Despite Colombia's abysmal human rights record, the United States rewards its ...
Treating Bolivia as a Sovereign Partner
Jan 01, 2009; ... A PROGRESSIVE U.S. POLICY TOWARD BOLIVIA must confront three major thrusts of Washington's current Latin America policy: (1) the war on drugs, which is linked to the global war on terror, (2) the effort to expand U.S. economic and corporate influence through free trade agreements, and (3) a ...
Reversing Course: A New Economic Agenda for Latin America
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM IN A PROGRESSIVE U.S. economic agenda for Latin America would be reversing the corporate bias of the free trade agreements (FTAs) that have been signed over the past decade and a half. Indeed, rather than "free trade" agreements, these treaties should be characterized as ...
Solidarity: The Only Effective Labor Policy
Jan 01, 2009; ... OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS, SINCE THE SlGNing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, U.S. labor policy has become an instrument used by transnational corporations and compliant governments - both conservative and liberal to strengthen the power of capital over labor. Meshing ...
A Grassroots Vision for U.S. Immigration Policy-and Beyond
Jan 01, 2009; ... SINCE THE SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS, the situation for immigrants in the United States has turned increasingly insecure. Every week hundreds of immigrants are ar- rested in raids on their homes and workplaces. Hundreds more are arrested on the street by local police for the crime of "living ...
The Immigrants: Do the Right Thing but Keep Your Head Down
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Immigrants: Do the Right Thing but Keep Your Head Down THE WORLD OF MEXICAN MIGRANTS: THE ROCK AND THE HARD PLACE by Judith Adler Hellman, The New Press, 2008, 256 pp., $25.95, hardcover IN THE PROLOGUE TO HER NEW BOOK, The World of Mexican Migrants, Judith Adler Hellman sets the ...
Cuba's Evolving Civil Society
Jan 01, 2009; ... Cuba's Evolving Civil Society THE CHANGING DYNAMIC OF CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY Alexander J Gray and Antoni Kapcia, eds., 2008, University Press of Florida, 208 pp., hardcover, $59.95 DEEP-ROOTED AND MEANINGFUL DEBATE has marked the course of the Cuban Revolution from its inception. Thus, ...
WALKING THE FOREST WITH CHICO MENDES: STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE AMAZON
Jan 01, 2009; ... WALKING THE FOREST WITH CHICO MENDES: STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE AMAZON BY Gomercindo Rodrigues, edited and translated by Linda Robben, University of Texas Press, 2007, 224 pp., $22.95 (paperback) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2003, GOmercindo Rodrigues's memoir of the Brazilian rubber ...
GREENING BRAZIL: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN STATE AND SOCIETY
Jan 01, 2009; ... GREENING BRAZIL: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN STATE AND SOCIETY by Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, Duke University Press, 2007, 283 pp.. $23.95 (paperback) THIS STUDY OF BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENTAL movement, based on research begun in 1989, proposes to "tell the 'inside' story of ...
LAND, PROTEST, AND POLITICS: THE LANDLESS MOVEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AGRARIAN REFORM IN BRAZIL
Jan 01, 2009; ... LAND, PROTEST, AND POLITICS: THE LANDLESS MOVEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AGRARIAN REFORM IN BRAZIL by Gabriel Ondetti, Penn State Press, 2008, 281 pp., $60 (hardcover) THE MOVIMENTO DOS TRABALHADORES Rurais Sem Terra (MST) organization has seen the fortunes of its campaign for agrarian ...
Framing Peace as Violence: TV Coverage of L.A.'s May Day 2007
Jan 01, 2009; ... mala MEDIA ACCURACY ON LATIN AMERICA www.mediaaccuracy.org ON MAY 1, 2007, THOUSANDS OF LOS Angeles residents took to the streets to reprise the massive immigrant rights march that captured the nation's attention a year earlier. The day began with a peaceful march of ...