The Iglesias Legacy and the IDB
By Marco Antonio Martínez García
After 17 years at the helm of Latin America’s largest source of development financing, the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is stepping down. Enrique Iglesias is slated to pass the reins to his successor in September. Like the recent fight over the leadership position at the Organization of American States, this contest promises [...]
Read more →Latin America’s Social Movements Gain New Ground
By Raúl Zibechi
Throughout 2004, Latin America’s principle social movements encountered an ever more complex scenario and tended to distance themselves from left leaning or progressive governments, thus preparing for new offensives. Unlike 2003, a year that was marked by social movement offensives and imperial defeats, this past year represents a pause that tended to restore equilibrium to [...]
Read more →Fair Trade Empowers Haitian Coffee Growers
By strazer
The fair trade market offers small coffee farmers a chance to benefit from globalization through direct links to markets in wealthy countries. But these advantages do not come automatically with fair trade certification. Small-scale farmers, inexperienced in global trade and markets, rely on key partnerships with their fair trade buyers and other support agencies to [...]
Read more →What to Do About Hugo?
By Tom Barry
What to do with Hugo? That’s a question that is bedeviling the Bush administration, which sees its centuries-old hegemonic hold on Latin America and the Caribbean slipping. As President Hugo Chavez adeptly leverages Venezuela’s oil wealth to forge an array of regional alliances that leave the United States out in the cold, U.S. – Venezuela [...]
Read more →China
By logan
Last November Chinese President Hu Jintao swept through South American capitals with pledges of future investment and carrying a Send article as PDF
Read more →Immigration Advocates Face Challenges
By Tom Barry
As anti-immigration sentiment rises, the voices advocating a liberal immigration policy confront new challenges. The most obvious challenges Send article as PDF
Read more →Trinational Elites Map North American Future in “NAFTA Plus”
By pickard
“I would like you [of the press] to understand the magnitude of what this means. It is transcendent, it’s something that goes well beyond the relationship we have had up to now.” —President Vicente Fox, regarding NAFTA Plus, onboard the presidential plane returning to Mexico from George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, March 2005.1 NAFTA (North [...]
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