Americas

America's jobs program is its military—and the immense industry that provides the military with services and armaments.

A pressing concern of Mexican communities today is how to organize against the escalation of violence triggered by the government's militarized war on drugs, and how to counteract the temptation of easy money and other perks offered by the drug trade, especially to young men.

A federal court in Argentina recently sentenced 12 former military officers to life in prison for crimes against humanity carried out at the ESMA Navy Mechanics School, one of Latin America’s most notorious torture centers.

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." – Railroad baron Jay Gould, 1886, during the Great Southwest Railroad’s hiring of  strikebreakers.

The widespread dissatisfaction with conservative politicians in indigenous and farming communities swept Ollanta Humala – a left-leaning nationalist - to the presidency in July. Now his supporters are waiting for Humala to begin the promised social revolution, but in many parts of the country, patience is wearing thin.

"Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a/We should be the only owners of this land." - This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.