Almost all of the 30,000 Oaxacan teachers who surged into Mexico City’s Zòcalo to protest the so-called educational reform this September were veterans of the 2006 demonstrations. They knew what they were in for.
Faced with soaring levels of crime and violence, Venezuela's government continues to militarize the police. The public disproves of the crime, but not the response. Why?
Mexico officially recognises 68 native languages, although some of these are spoken by fewer than 100 people and seem destined to disappear along with the culture and customs to which they gave expression. From openDemocracy.
Our Sunday Comics author tantalises us with a story of intense culinary revelation in Mexico
O artigo em tom esperançoso escrito por Camila Asano sobre o potencial da política externa brasileira de liderar uma agenda de direitos humanos é, infelizmente, bastante esperançoso. English
25 years after Women in Black was founded by Israeli and Palestinian women working together for peace, Sue Finch and Liz Khan report from the International Women in Black meeting in Uruguay on how the movement has grown into a world-wide network speaking truth to power
In Mexico, government officials have often been accused of planting violent protesters in nonviolent movements in order to justify the use of police force. But teachers know that they are stakeholders in the country’s future. Like citizens in Brazil, Egypt, Turkey, Mexican teachers want to play th
For the moment, the Wixáritari believe that they are winning the fight for the hearts and minds of Mexicans and that public opinion is turning against international mining companies. They should not be underestimated.
What makes Uruguay different, is that apparently utopian dreams are being implemented - not in half-measures but fully, openly and with the participation of the people. From openDemocracy.
The d’Hondt executive does not operate like the winner-take-all mechanism of most majoritarian systems.
The military seizure of power in Chile on 11 September 1973 continues to influence the country's politics, and its reverberations around the world were also to last for decades. Alan Angell, a distinguished scholar of Chile, reflects on the legacy of the coup and the reasons for its enduring impac
The military coup of forty years ago inaugurated a long period of dictatorship and human-rights violation. But its profound legacy also includes long-term economic and political effects, says Patricio Navia.
