NACLA Report on the Americas back issues from March 2005:
Argentina's Catholic Backlash
Mar 01, 2005; ... I WENT HOME TO ARGENTINA LAST DECEMBER FOR THE holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I know greeted me with, "Things have gotten better there, right?"-a fair question, but one to which a typically cynical Argentine would respond: "Of course things are better, they couldn't have ...
The Treasure of Cajamarca-And Other Peruvian Curses
Mar 01, 2005; ... ON NOVEMBER 15, 1532, IN THE NORTHERN Peruvian city of Cajamarca, Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro slaughtered 7,000 Inca nobles and warriors. Pizarro and his force of 160 mounted soldiers, armed with superior firepower, armor and swords, tricked and then seized Atahualpa, leader ...
Peru vs. Lori Berenson: The Case Continues
Mar 01, 2005; ... ON APRIL 3, 2002, IN A UNANIMOUS, 7-0 decision, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights declared that U.S. citizen Lori Berenson's civilian trial in Peru was riddled with violations of due process; that her rights under the American Convention on Human Rights needed to be completely ...
Paraguay's Enigmatic President
Mar 01, 2005; ... WHEN NlCANOR DUARTE, THE CANDIdate of the ruling Colorado Party, won the Paraguayan presidential elections in April 2003, few observers felt there was much to celebrate. The Colorado Party had, after all, been in power for over 50 years through civil war, dictatorship and, more recently, ...
Social Movements: Building From the Ground Up
Mar 01, 2005; ... ONE OF THE MAJOR CONTRADICTIONS IN the Americas today is that between the included and the excluded-those who can regularly participate in the formal institutions of society, politics and the economy, and those who are able to do so only intermittently, or not at all. This Report examines the ...
New Challenges for Radical Social Movements
Mar 01, 2005; ... THERE WERE NO SOCIAL CLASSES THAT day," saysjorge Jara, recounting the protests of December 20, 2001. "You'd look, and we were all equals. 'Let's go!' someone would say. And we'd all start moving." Those protests brought down the ineffective Argentine President Fernando de la Rua, albeit at the ...
BOLIVIA'S SEPARATIST MOVEMENT
Mar 01, 2005; ... What we should do is simply and smoothly separate ourselves [from Bolivia]." One might assume these words were spoken by a radical Aymara indigenista, but they were actually uttered by the powerful right-wing leader of a business association in the eastern city of Santa Cruz. The statement is ...
MEMORIES OF STRUGGLE IN THE MST
Mar 01, 2005; ... João Pedro Stedile is one of the founding members of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement, and one of its most vocal leaders. NACLA invited him to speak of his memories of the movement and to reflect on the MSTs role in Brazilian ...
Brazil's Landless Hold Their Ground
Mar 01, 2005; ... OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES, THERE have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures and conservative economic policies that have come to be called "neoliberalism." These protests have taken diverse forms: the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico, the neopopulist ...
Chavistas in the Halls of Power, Chavistas on the Street
Mar 01, 2005; ... WITH MEMBERS OF VENEZUELA'S political opposition trying to get rid of President Hugo Chávez by just about any means they can think of, Chávez's supporters have been in a near-constant state of anti-opposition mobilization. The implementation of projects aimed at improving the lives of poor ...
The World Social Forum and the Rise of Global Politics
Mar 01, 2005; ... SINCE 2001, ACTIVISTS FROM AROUND THE world who are opposed to neoliberal corporate globalization have gathered annually at the World Social Forum (WSF). The Forum brings together tens of thousands of people from the worlds social movements and nongovernmental organizations in pursuit of varied ...
BOLIVIA: Privatized Water Company Defeated
Mar 01, 2005; ... For frequently updated news from Latin America, check our Web site <www.nacla.org>. Register on the site to receive our email newsletter. ON JANUARY 10, MEMBERS OF MORE than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an open-ended peaceful civic ...
VENEZUELA/COLOMBIA: Relations Turn Carnal
Mar 01, 2005; ... VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA'S HISTORically uneasy relationship deteriorated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis in January only weeks after bounty hunters kidnapped a Colombian terrorist suspect in Caracas. Accusing the Colombians of a flagrant violation of sovereignty, President Hugo Chávez pulled ...
!YA!
Mar 01, 2005; ... AT THE END OF 2004, THE international Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers <http://www. child-sol diers.org> released one of its most ambitious reports on the use of child soldiers worldwide. The "Child Soldiers Global Report 2004" covers the period from April 2001 to March ...
REGION: Latin America Responds to Tsunami
Mar 01, 2005; ... LIKE ALL HUMANITY, LATIN AMERICANS grasped for words to describe the . calamity that raced across the Indian Ocean on December 26. The word tsunami is used in Spanish and Portuguese, but in both languages there was a term much closer at hand for the event: maremoto. Maremoto, which can ...
Time of the Snails: Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas
Mar 01, 2005; ... THE PEOPLE OF NUEVO SAN ISIDRO watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven thatched huts and landed somewhere on the far side of the Lacantun River. This Tzotzil indigenous community had migrated to the remote jungle near the Mexican-Guatemalan border in ...
Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Mar 01, 2005; ... IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE SINCE CALIFORNIA voters passed a ballot initiative entitled "Proposition 187." Though it was later declared unconstitutional, the measure would have denied unauthorized immigrants access to all public benefits. Slightly less than two years later, passage of the ...