Category: Latin America
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Canadian Mining and Popular Resistance in Honduras
Carlos Danilo Amador interviewed by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber JRW/TG: We’re here in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (January 26). Can you give us your name and position in your organization? CDA: … Keep reading »
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Our Role in Haiti’s Plight
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it’s … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico
A Seminar with Andrés Barreda, held at Carleton University on November 27th, 2009; presented by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Political Economy in collaboration with CSRC. Watch video »
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Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened
“When the media goes quiet, the walls speak.” — graffiti in Tegucigalpa. What strikes a visitor to the Honduran capital most immediately in this moment is the degree to which … Keep reading »
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Crisis, Populist Neoliberalism and the Limits to Democracy in Mexico
Forbes magazine recently placed two Mexicans, Carlos Slim and Joaquín Guzmán, high on their list of the most powerful people in the world. Carlos Slim is the world’s third-richest man … Keep reading »
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Maxico part 2: The Fightback
Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle The Fightback: From Protest to Rebellion? The government’s blitzkrieg attack on the SME has failed to destroy the resistance. … Keep reading »
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Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle
Part 1: The New Assault “Brothers, companeros, comrades: we must convert the rage, the anger and the helplessness into superior organization, into unified and convergent projects, into cultivating unity without distinctions … Keep reading »
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Venezuela: The Battle for Workers’ Control
Caracas – 30 October 2007: Produced as part of Centro Internacional Miranda’s Transformative Practice and Human Development, directed by Michael Lebowitz. En Español: Gestión Obrera: Teoria y Experiencias: Construyendo el … Watch video »
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The Caribbean and Latin America at the Rendezvous of History
In 2004 two events sent shock waves across the Caribbean Sea, presenting us with two radically different blueprints for future hemispheric relations. In February a combined force of American, Canadian … Keep reading »
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ALBA: Dawn of Solidarity in Latin America
Toronto, September 30, 2009 Facilitator: Melanie Newton. Co-sponsored: Venezuela We Are With You, Center for Social Justice, Latin American Solidarity Network, Toronto Haiti Action, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle/Hands Off Venezuela. … Watch video »
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Venezuela: Socialist Party Prepares for “Transition to Socialism”
On August 1, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) members across the country participated in 1556 local assemblies to discuss the reorganisation of the party’s base into local patrols. This … Keep reading »
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The Mass Resistance in Honduras: Its Own Voice
Most of the coverage of the military coup in Honduras from bourgeois and liberal circles, and from many “Western” foreign ministers and departments, has focused on what various governments are … Keep reading »