Dispatches from Latin America : experiments against neoliberalism / edited by Teo Ballve and Vijay Prashad

Includes index.

PREFACE: The south also exists: an Indian glance at Latin America / Vijay Prashad -- INTRODUCTION: From resistance to offensive: NACLA and Latin America / Teo Ballve -- OPENNINGS: Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency / Gerardo Renique -- Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times / Maruja Barrig -- The making of a transnational movement / Guillermo Delgado-P -- Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas / Laura Carlsen -- A NEW LEFT RISING: The Kirchner factor / Andres Gaudin -- Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets / Jonah Gindin -- Venezuela: defying globalization's logic / Steve Ellner -- Is Venezuela the new Cuba / Teo Ballve -- Paraguay's enigmatic president / Peter Lambert -- Brazil takes Lula's measure / Emir Sader -- The Uruguayan left and the construction of Hegemony / Raul Zibechi -- Evo Morales turns the tide of history / Luis A. Gomez -- INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS: Bolivia de pie! / Teo Ballve -- The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia / Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson -- A seat at the table / Chris Jochnick and Paulina Garzon -- A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes center stage / Jennifer N. Collins -- Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas / Richard Stahler-Sholk -- Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism / R. Aida Hernandez Castillo -- Incas, Indios and Indigenism in Peru / Shane Greene -- Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist / Mario A. Murillo -- Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio permitido" / Charles R. Hale -- GRASSING THE ROOTS: Brazil's landless hold their ground / Harry E. Vanden -- Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas / Sue Branford and Jan Rocha -- Homeless movement builds momentum / Nicholas Watson -- Making a people's budget in Porto Alegre / Hilary Wainwright -- Multinational gold rush in Guatemala / Benjamin Witte -- Stories from the borderland / David Bacon -- Worker-run factories: from survival to economic solidarity / Raul Zibechi -- Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon / Raul Zibechi