Dispatches from Latin America experiments against neoliberalism
edited by Teo Ballve and Vijay Prashad
- New Delhi LeftWord Books 2006
- 375p. : maps ; 22.5 cm.
Includes index.
PREFACE: The south also exists: an Indian glance at Latin America / INTRODUCTION: From resistance to offensive: NACLA and Latin America / OPENNINGS: Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency / Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times / The making of a transnational movement / Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas / A NEW LEFT RISING: The Kirchner factor / Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets / Venezuela: defying globalization's logic / Is Venezuela the new Cuba / Paraguay's enigmatic president / Brazil takes Lula's measure / The Uruguayan left and the construction of Hegemony / Evo Morales turns the tide of history / INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS: Bolivia de pie! / The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia / A seat at the table / A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes center stage / Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas / Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism / Incas, Indios and Indigenism in Peru / Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist / Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio permitido" / GRASSING THE ROOTS: Brazil's landless hold their ground / Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas / Homeless movement builds momentum / Making a people's budget in Porto Alegre / Multinational gold rush in Guatemala / Stories from the borderland / Worker-run factories: from survival to economic solidarity / Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon / Vijay Prashad -- Teo Ballve -- Gerardo Renique -- Maruja Barrig -- Guillermo Delgado-P -- Laura Carlsen -- Andres Gaudin -- Jonah Gindin -- Steve Ellner -- Teo Ballve -- Peter Lambert -- Emir Sader -- Raul Zibechi -- Luis A. Gomez -- Teo Ballve -- Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson -- Chris Jochnick and Paulina Garzon -- Jennifer N. Collins -- Richard Stahler-Sholk -- R. Aida Hernandez Castillo -- Shane Greene -- Mario A. Murillo -- Charles R. Hale -- Harry E. Vanden -- Sue Branford and Jan Rocha -- Nicholas Watson -- Hilary Wainwright -- Benjamin Witte -- David Bacon -- Raul Zibechi -- Raul Zibechi