As we write this, the crisis generated by the new Hurricane Iota is still unfolding in Honduras. This morning, Honduras woke up to another major disaster less than two week after the last one, Hurricane Eta. Many people still do not have electricity or signal on their phones and even more people have had to flee…
Latin America solidarity – general or not otherwise covered
This includes articles and alerts about Latin America that are general in nature, or that are not already covered in more specific geographical categories.
Calls to action, Colombia, Honduras, International solidarity - not Americas, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Mexico, Petition, Prison Imperialism, Uncategorized
End Mass Incarceration, Breeding Ground for Coronavirus-Act Now!
The coronavirus pandemic has turned prisons into breeding grounds for the pandemic. We are asking you to take the following actions in support of this campaign: Send an appeal to international human rights officials and authorities demanding an end to mass incarceration during this pandemic If you are a resident of the United States, click…
Alba countries, Democracy, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Uncategorized
REVIEW: The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American By Emir Sader, Verso, 2011, 169 pp. Review by Midge Quandt The title of The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Brazilian writer, Emir Sader, is taken from Marx to refer to the revolutionary impulse, which burrows quietly underground until it comes to the…
Alba countries, Democracy, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Nicaragua, Uncategorized, Venezuela
Book Review: New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence,
New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence, Eds. Maxwell A. Cameron, Eric Hershberg and Kenneth E. Sharpe, New York, 2012, 263 pages. Review by Midge Quandt This book consists of a group of essays about participatory democracy in Latin America. Participatory democracy is direct citizen participation in the political arena;…
Audio-visual, Cultural solidarity & struggle, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Uncategorized
A MAGNIFICENT WOMAN. 9/11 40th anniversary
9/11 is the 40th anniversary of the appalling Nixon/Kissinger/Pinochet coup in Chile, the first terrorist act on that fateful date. To honor Salvador Allende, Victor Jara and the thousands of other victims whose loved ones still cry out their names into the darkness (including those of the World Trade Center), here’s an article recognizing the…
Alba countries, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
Latin America Goes Global
In the Periodical Literature: Reviews of Essays from the Journals Midge Quandt Latin America Goes Global “Latin America in the New Global Capitalism,” by William I. Robinson, from NACLA: Report on the Americas 45, No. 2 (Summer 2012): 3-18. In a recent article, William Robinson, a University of California professor, assesses the transition in Latin…
Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Uncategorized
Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice
by Cyril Mychalejko (Reprinted from Toward Freedom–please check out their “AFGJ-recommended” website at: http://www.towardfreedom.com/ ) One generally overlooked feature of Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence.
Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Midge Quandt, Uncategorized
Occupy Wall Street and Grassroots Movements in Latin America
by Midge Quandt (AFGJ Board Emeritus) The Occupy Wall Street movement that by December 2011 had spread to 900 cities world-wide led me to question my earlier allegiance to the idea that government/the state is the most effective avenue to radical social change. The Occupy movement also led me to revisit a related argument that…
Alba countries, Democracy, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, Uncategorized
The U.S. Double Standard on Elections in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Alexander Main and Daniel McCurdy (This article is reprinted from NACLA on Dec. 22, 2011 and is available at https://nacla.org/news/2011/12/22/us-double-standard-elections-latin-america-and-caribbean .)
Labor, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor, Sweatshops and CAFTA in Nicaragua
By Steve Watrous (Watrous is a professor and Chair of the Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition.) As I walked through the big room of a clothing factory in Managua’s free trade zone, where about 800 workers were busy sewing and ironing black Wrangler jeans, the heat was horrible for a visitor from the north. I saw…