ARTICLES BY
Sarita Ahooja
When a large U.S. corporation privatized water supplies in Bolivia and tripled water prices, the country’s 90-percent indigenous population exploded into action. The “water war” was the beginning of a new movement for indigenous autonomy.
From the heights of the mountain called Alto Cochabamba you can see over the entire city ...
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The 120 families that make up Callamarca mostly farm, cultivating potatoes, beans and grains. For over a decade, community members also have been selling milk to a state company in order to make a living.
But that changed when the company was bought by a Peruvian division of Nestle. Nestle will ...
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The Mapuche people of Chile survived genocide, colonization and dictator Augusto Pinochet, their struggle isn’t over – tear gas and rubber bullets are flying as our reporter touches down in the middle of their direct-action movement against the government and forestry companies.
“America awakens anew to the warrior song of its ...
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