A Spark of Hope: The Ongoing Lessons of the Zapatista ... - NACLA
Dec 21, 2022 · January 1, 2019 marked 25 years since the Zapatistas captured the world’s imagination with their brief but audacious uprising to demand justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in southern Mexico. While never formally laying down its weapons, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN ...
Forward Ever: 40 Years on from the End of the Revolution and
Oct 24, 2023 · When an intra-party conflict broke out, leading to the killing of revolutionary leader Bishop and other victims on October 19, 1983, the Reagan administration seized the pretext to invade. On October 25, 1983, thousands of U.S. troops landed on the island. This year, Grenada commemorates both 50 years as an independent nation and 40 years since ...
Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin …
Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin America. Tweet. Marisol de la Cadena. September 25, 2007. One of the most puzzling, disconcerting phenomena that the non-native visitor confronts while traveling in Latin America is the relative ease with which pervasive and very visible discriminatory practices coexist with the denial ...
The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot - NACLA
September 25, 2007. Project Camelot, a mammoth six million dollar counterinsurgency project, was a creation of the Army's Special Operations Research Office (SORO) centered at American University, Washington, D.C. Its aim was to test a general systems approach to predicting and influencing instability in several Latin American countries.
Portraits of Black Politics and Resistance in Brazil | NACLA
Translated to English by Joyce Silva Fernandes. Black people make up the majority in Brazil. Over half of the nation’s 215 million inhabitants—56 percent or about 120 million people—are Afro-Brazilian, making the country home to the largest Black population in the Americas. As a result, analysis of all political, economic, societal, and ...
Remembering Grenada’s Revolution Beyond Cold War Narratives
An internationalist critique of empire demands a contestation of empire’s memory. On March 13, 1979, five years after Grenada’s independence from Britain, the New Jewel Movement (NJM) mounted an armed attack against the increasingly erratic …
The Second Implosion of Central America - NACLA
Jan 28, 2019 · The Isthmus has been gripped by renewed mass struggle and state repression, the cracking of fragile political systems, unprecedented corruption, drug violence, and the displacement and forced migration of millions of workers and peasants. The backdrop to this second implosion of Central America, reflecting the spiraling crisis of global ...
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Land Rights and Garífuna Identity | NACLA
The Garífuna originate from the 17th century when, on the windward Caribbean island of St. Vincent, the island’s indigenous Arawak-Caribs integrated runaway and shipwrecked African slaves into their communities. European colonists first referred to their progeny as “Black Caribs” and later “Garífuna,” as they are still known.
The Legacy of Latin American Land Reform - NACLA
Land reform has been one of the most conflictive issues in twentieth- century Latin America. The reasons are simple. Effective reforms imply radical changes in economic and political relations both locally and nationally. And given Latin America’s role in the global economy, powerful transnational interests are frequently involved.