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Recent & Selected Articles

  1. This is a small sampling of articles related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as South America, Latin America, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.
  1. The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez (March 7, 2013)
    The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
  2. The Chavez Legacy (March 6, 2013)
    Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, brought dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.
  3. Preparing for a Post-Chávez Venezuela (March 6, 2013)
    Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing a condensation point around which popular struggles coalesced, will inevitably continue to function long after his death.
  4. How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses (December 21, 2012)
    The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
  5. The State and the Social Movements (October 15, 2012)
    The article deals with the systematic, pervasive web of containment of social struggles and class conflict developed by the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido do Trabalho, or PT) over decades, beginning in the 1980s, and culminating in its ten years in state power since 2002, first under Lula (2002–2010) and now under Dilma Rousseff (2010–).
  6. Paraguay: A well-rehearsed coup (September 28, 2012)
    The story behind the overthrow of Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo.
  7. Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One (June 3, 2012)
    Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime—well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies—were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
  8. Make Sure You Don’t Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One (June 3, 2012)
    To understand and make sense of the recent wave of social unrest in Chile, we have to refer to the history of the last half century of this country: the revolutionary upsurge that had its peak in late 1972, the destruction of the social movement after the military coup, the neo-liberal restructuring imposed by the Pinochet regime and the consolidation of that legacy by successive civilian governments.
  9. Revolution against “progress”: the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia (January 9, 2012)
    Evo Morales's green light to a decades-old project to build a highway connecting Villa Tunari north to San Ignacio de Moxos through the indigenous territory and national park known as TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure), was the catalyst of his government's unpopular ratings.
  10. Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington (December 7, 2011)
    The CELAC meeting comes a time when Washington’s presence in the region is waning. Following the nightmarish decades of the Cold War, in which Washington propped up dictators and waged wars on Latin American nations, a new era has opened up; in the past decade a wave of leftist presidents have taken office on socialist and anti-imperialist platforms.
  11. Bolivia's Growing Crisis (November 1, 2011)
    A confrontation between the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and a part of his indigenous social base is leading to a serious political crisis. A violent police assault on indigenous community protests against a road being built through their self-governed Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) have led to a growing confrontation.
  12. Bolivia's Uncertain Revolution (November 1, 2011)
    Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales has become a favorite topic among progressives and social democrats, who have likened his ascendency to the nation’s highest post as nothing short of revolutionary. The buzz around Morales, a long time social movement figure and the first Indigenous president of the Andean nation has only lost a little luster since his election almost six years ago.
  13. US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church (September 14, 2011)
    The war on liberation theology.
  14. Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy (August 1, 2011)
    Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
  15. The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales (December 24, 2010)
    There are two different Evo Morales: the one who makes international eco-proclamations and the one, at home, who is pushing dams, uranium excavation, cell towers, and mega-highways.
  16. Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists (December 21, 2009)
    The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia#s leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
  17. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence (December 15, 2009)
    Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
  18. Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food (October 29, 2009)
    Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples# right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
  19. Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers (October 10, 2009)
    Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
  20. Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women (October 2, 2009)
    Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
  21. What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis (September 23, 2009)
    Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
  22. Women Recycle for Income and Environment (September 12, 2009)
    The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
  23. Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines (September 8, 2009)
    Women in Latin American struggles.
  24. Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance (September 7, 2009)
    Founded in 1991 and directed by Dora Andrade, EDISCA is a non-governmental organisation that caters exclusively to children and adolescents from poor neighbourhoods.
  25. Volunteer Translators Wanted English to Spanish (September 4, 2009)
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Spanish, and from English to other languages.
  26. Militarizing Latin America (August 30, 2009)
    Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
  27. Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela (August 4, 2009)
    Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
  28. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities (July 21, 2009)
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region#s biodiversity and communities.
  29. Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America (June 1, 2009)
    It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
  30. An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense (June 1, 2009)
    In Colombia, campesinos are mostly non-indigenous family farmers who have often been pitted against indigenous people by wealthy landowners and corporations. Yet despite being traditional rivals, the Barí and campesino communities have been driven to a partnership by common enemies, including multinational mining companies, complicit Colombian regulatory agencies, and the US government.

Selected Websites and Organizations

  1. This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with education and children in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as South America, Latin America, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.


Books, Films and Periodicals

  1. This is a small sampling of books related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as South America, Latin America, youth, post-secondary education, film, and schools.
    1. Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
      The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
      Author: Wilpert, Greg
      Explores the historical and socioeconomic roots of the Venezuelan initiatives of recent years, the conflicts they have engendered, the achievements and pitfalls, the animating ideals of a genuinely participatory society, and the prospects for realizing them.
    2. The Devil Operation
      Author: Boyd, Stephanie
      A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
    3. Latin America The Liberation of Latin America
      New Internationalist May 2003
      A look at the issues which have surrounded Latin America and what is changing.
    4. Memory of Fire: Genesis
      Part One of a Triology
      Author: Galeano, Eduardo
      A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
    5. Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
      Part Two of a Trilogy
      Author: Galeano, Eduardo
      A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
    6. Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
      Part Three of a Trilogy
      Author: Galeano, Eduardo
    7. Open Veins of Latin America
      Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
      Author: Galeano, Eduardo
      A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
    8. Relentless Persistence
      Nonviolent Action in Latin America
      Author: McManus, Philip and Schlabach, Gerald (ed.)
      There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.


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