A 17 años del alzamiento, estas comunidades indígenas en resistencia siguen mejorando su salud, educación, su derecho a la tierra o su comunicación propia, fuera de los focos mediáticos Gobierno y grupos paramilitares hostigan continuamente a los zapatistas y a sus simpatizantes En Chiapas, en la frontera sur de México, allá donde la orografría es abrupta y [...]

One version of an old joke features a shipwrecked economist on a deserted island who, when asked by his fellow survivors what expertise he can offer on how they can be rescued, replies, “Assume we have a boat.” In Mexico earlier this month, I was thinking that the real-life version of the economist’s solution is: “Assume [...]

Cualquiera, y todos, pueden ser asesinados. Así de simple y tremendo a la vez. Los puestos de venta de diarios y revistas, en distintas ciudades de México, chorrean sangre desde las portadas, matizadas con alguna modelito desnuda o semidesnuda. “Si esto sigue así tendremos que irnos a otro país”, se escucha decir a algunas gentes que [...]

Traducción en español abajo Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: Resurgence The globalisation of the food market has made food cheap, but who is benefiting? by Timothy Wise Cheap food causes hunger. On its face, the statement makes no sense. If food is cheaper it’s more affordable and more people should be able to get an adequate [...]

On both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, transnational industrial livestock firms have benefited economically from the confluence of agriculture, trade, immigration, and labor policies that have pushed cheap commodities south and driven people north.

Fuente: Le Monde Diplomatique – Edición Peruana La tragedia cotidiana de los obreros de las maquiladoras en México por Anne Vigna 31 de noviembre, 2009 Las plantas de ensamblaje, símbolo de condiciones laborales de otra era, atormentan a las poblaciones, incluso cuando cierran o funcionan ralentizadas, como en el caso de Tijuana. La selección para la contratación laboral se [...]

Source: YES! Magazine Ten years later, the protests of 1999 are still having an impact. by Fran Korten December 1, 2009 Did the 1999 protests against the World Trade organization in Seattle make a difference? After all, the WTO still exists and continues its push for the corporate-driven free trade agenda that was on the table 10 years ago. [...]

In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal. by Paul Harris November 22, 2009 Figures from the State Department reveal that 17,500 people are trafficked into the US every year against their will [...]

To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former “economic hit man” by John Perkins November 13, 2009 The following is adapted from Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Random House, 2009. Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain [...]

Ofrece Chomsky conferencia magistral en la Sala Nezahualcóyotl Todo Estado poderoso descansa en especialistas en apologética, llamados intelectuales Las elecciones en EU, montajes espectaculares por Noam Chomsky 22 de septiembre, 2009 ¿Qué lecciones nos han dejado dos décadas de una realidad mundial unipolar? Noam Chomsky disertó ayer por la tarde largamente sobre esta pregunta y dejó en oídos del auditorio ideas [...]