Mexicans Say: Integrate This!
By kohlstedt
As part of a broadened alliance of Mexican civil society groups demanding the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexicans from all parts of the country occupied Mexico City’s Zocalo and surroundings on Jan. 31. In a display of unity, in solidarity with their country’s agricultural producers, and the spirit that "without [...]
Read more →The Militarization of the World’s Urban Peripheries
By Raúl Zibechi
Urban peripheries in Third World countries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order based on the establishment of a sort of "sanitary cordon" to keep the poor isolated from "normal" society. "Army sources confirmed that techniques employed in the occupation of the Morro da Providéncia favela [slum] are the ones Brazilian soldiers [...]
Read more →Republican Party Candidates on Immigration
By app
The two remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination—John McCain and Mike Huckabee—take positions on immigration outright restrictionists criticize. McCain and Huckabee both favor temporary work programs, and Huckabee’s advocacy of tuition support for the children of undocumented immigrants also angers immigration restrictionists. Both candidates favor a pathway to citizenship, although Huckabee’s path is a [...]
Read more →Understanding Lula’s Strength
By dowbor
In the results of Brazil’s National Survey of Sample Households (PNAD) there is an explanation for the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s popularity that intrigues the center, the right, and part of the left. Brazil became less unequal in many senses. To call the advances which have been achieved "welfare" doesn’t help to understand [...]
Read more →Cosmetic Changes: The Argentine Economy after the 2007 Elections
By cibils
Argentina’s stunning recovery from the economic crisis of 2001 dealt a blow to orthodox economic theories imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international institutions. Former president Néstor Kirchner and now his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner have consolidated political power on the basis of that success. But some serious problems loom on [...]
Read more →Hope for 2008, Truth about Immigration, UN in Haiti, Peru, Indigenous people in the United States
By CIP Americas
New from the Americas Policy Program 2008: Latin America’s Hope and ChallengeBy Laura Carlsen Latin America faces three big challenges in this coming year and provides us with three sources of hope. They might seem novel to those who just recently felt the new winds blowing from the southern part of the hemisphere, but all [...]
Read more →Border Apartheid Documented in United Nations Report on Indigenous Peoples
The systematic racism, forced assimilation, and apartheid of indigenous peoples in the United States has been documented in the "Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report," to be presented by the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in February. The report is compiled from the testimony of individuals [...]
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