Latin America: Collective solidarities and Covid-19
Mutual aid and autonomous organization have been activated throughout Latin America in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Articles by Raúl Zibechi
Elections or autonomy? Notes from a Trawün Mapuche in Chile
In the context of the uprising in Chile, Mapuche people debate between participation in elections and maintaining autonomy.
Chile: Mapuche and Feminist Organizations Call for Continued Struggle
Mapuche and feminist organizations are leading resistance to President Sebastián Piñeda's plan for "social peace" and a new Constitution in Chile.
Bolivia: Evo’s Fall, the Fascist Right, and the Power of Memory
Between efforts towards restoration and the advance of a coup, the Bolivian people are preparing, again, to resist.
Paraguay: Women at the Center of Resistance
Silence and candles. Sitting at a table, in a kitchen that opens onto a spacious patio decorated with plants and trees, women of all ages and very young men are placing herbs in little packets that are sealed with the heat of the flame. Murmurs, laughter and candles; an atmosphere of mysticism and spirituality for a collective task that celebrates life. The headquarters of CONAMURI is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces.
Latin America Rejects the Extractive Model in the Streets
Source: Americas Program
A decision of the Chilean Supreme Court has suspended operations at Barrick Gold’s gold mine, Pascula Lama. Monsanto had to halt construction of a seed plant in Cordoba because of widespread opposition from the population. Large extractive companies begin to reap a harvest of defeats.
“Under democracy, it’s the peoples that are the disappeared,” stated Mercedes Maidana, who defines herself as a ‘nomadic colla‘[1] that still works the land despite living in a city in northern Argentina. With that phrase, she established a thread between past dictatorships and current political regimes at the conference “From extractivism to re-building alternatives”, held in Buenos Aires in late August.[2]