The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).
Since the 19th century, the choice between independence and incorporation into the US has been a central issue for Puerto Rican politics. Support for the left-wing Puerto Rico Independence Party is now surging among the country’s youth.
Peru has been home to the world’s most ambitious experiments in participatory democracy. American progressive and democratic socialist mayors should look to them for both inspiration and warning.
Argentina may be the last Latin American team standing in the World Cup, but don't expect many fans in Mexico to be cheering for La Albiceleste — the lads sporting the classic white and blue stripes. Deeper cultural resentments are also a factor.
Thinking strategy in a time of hard choices
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Left confers in South Africa without ANC
Latin America’s anti-imperialist traditions point to one possible outcome of the U.S.’s newly aggressive stance: a resurgence of anti-imperialist sentiment as the organizing principle for a new generation of activists.
San Carlos Declaration commits progressive forces across the Americas to collective action.
Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years.
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