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La Garganta Poderosa: Community-Managed Magazine is the Voice of Argentina’s Slums

Daniel Gutman July 9, 2018 Daniel Gutman

Between the dimly-lit, narrow alleyways of Villa 21, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, more than 50,000 people live in poverty. It was here that La Garganta Poderosa (which means powerful throat), the magazine that gives a voice to the “villeros” or slum-dwellers, was organized. “’Villeros’ don’t generally reach the media in Argentina. Others see us as people who don’t want to work, or as people who are dangerous. La Garganta Poderosa is the cry that comes from our soul,” says Marcos Basualdo, who works at the publication.

An Unprecedented Wave of Feminist Civil Disobedience Sweeps Chile

Giulia Dessi July 2, 2018 Giulia Dessi

Chile has a long history of student protests, normally mobilizing against the privatized education system put in place by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. What’s happening today emerges from that experience, but with feminism at its core.

Refugees and migrants in a camp in Harmanli, Bulgaria. Credit: AA

End the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis

Ramzy Baroud June 25, 2018 Ramzy Baroud

Europe is facing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because they have ignored the root causes of the problem.

Mass Protests Sweep Vietnam for the First Time in Decades

Vu Quoc Ngu June 25, 2018 Vu Quoc Ngu

The protests showed how widespread the dissatisfaction is with systemic corruption, serious large-scale environmental pollution, deep social inequality, and the government’s weak response to China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the resource-rich sea.

Leftist front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 1, 2018. Photo credit: Reuters. Jose Luis Gonzalez

Leftist Candidate López Obrador Will Likely be Mexico’s Next President: What Will It Mean for the US?

Ryan Mallett-Outtrim June 12, 2018 Ryan Mallett-Outtrim

Leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is widely expected to win Mexico's July 1st presidential election. If he wins, it will be the first time in generations a leftist will assume the country's highest political office. Here are five ways an Obrador presidency would change US-Mexican relations.

A Mile in Their Shoes: Afghans Walk 400 Miles to Demand End to 17-Year US War

Kathy Kelly June 12, 2018 Kathy Kelly

This past Friday in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, Hazara girls joined young Pashto boys to sing Afghanistan’s national anthem as a welcome to Pashto men walking 400 miles from Helmand to Kabul. The walkers are calling on warring parties in Afghanistan to end the war. It seems likely that ordinary Afghans, no matter their tribal lineages, share a profound desire to end forty years of war. The 17-year U.S. war in Afghanistan exceeds the lifetimes of the youngsters in Ghazni who greeted the peace walkers.