From the laboratory of neoliberalism - popularly known as "globalization" - Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread its devastation, robust and thoughtful opposition emerged in response - in the recovered factory movement of Argentina, in the presidential elections of indigenous leaders and radicals like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, against the privatization of water in Bolivia. Across Latin America, people are building social movements to take back control of their countries and their lives.

Dispatches from Latin America reports on countries from Mexico to Argentina to map the contemporary political and social territory. Drawn from the pages of the well-respected NACLA Report, this collection offers a riveting series of accounts that bring new insight into the region's struggles and victories.

With shrewd analysis rendered in accessible language, Dispatches lays plain the complex and vitally important conditions unfolding in 21st-century Latin America.

Praise for Dispatches

"After suffering half a century of vicious military dictatorship and state terror, and the disaster of rigid adherence to the neoliberal doctrines of the 'Washington consensus', Latin America has undergone remarkable changes that offer real hope for a better future. Among the most promising signs are the dynamic mass movements that have engaged the traditionally marginalized and repressed majorities in political and social life as nowhere else, with popular assemblies, worker-run factories, participatory budgets, grassroots political activism, and much more.
The informed and penetrating in-depth studies that appear in Dispatches explore the complex variety of popular initiatives that are taking shape, their achievements and prospects, in what has become perhaps the most exciting region of the world." - Noam Chomsky - author of Failed States and Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America


About the Author
Vijay Prashad, associate professor and director of International Studies at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, is the author of the widely acclaimed Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Beacon, 2001) and Karma of Brown Folk (Minnesota, 2000) both chosen as one of the 25 best books of the year by the Village Voice.



Other books on Social Movements in Latin America:

Marina Sitrin (Editor): Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina:  http://www.all4all.org/2007/04/3072.shtml

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's History) by Vijay Prashad
Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? by Eric Hershberg
The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia by Benjamin Dangl