Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FUENTES Federico
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their nature and significance is crucial to grasping the complexities involved in bringing (…)
, par DANGL Benjamin
When I sat down to an early morning interview with Evo Morales over a decade ago in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the then-coca farmer leader and dissident congressman was drinking fresh-squeezed orange juice and ignoring the constant rings of the landline phone at his union’s office. Just a few weeks (…)
, by DAVALOS Pablo
Ecuadorian economist Pablo Dávalo illustrates irrefutably how progressive governments apply extractivism, as well as monetary, tax and foreign investment policies that are really neoliberal, “pure and simple,” using contradictory discourse. On the one hand, they present themselves as (…)
, by GUDYNAS Eduardo
In Latin America strategies are still being advanced focused on mining, hydrocarbons and monoculture, despite the fact that this means repeating the role of suppliers of raw materials and of civic resistance.
This extractive mode of being is expressed both in conservative and progressive (…)
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