Teo Ballvé is a NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas http://www.americas.org. 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.

Maps of Mexico, Central and South America 8-9
PREFACE
They Rise From the Earth: The Promise of Latin America by Vijay Prashad 13
INTRODUCTION
From Resistance to Offensive: NACLA and Latin America by Teo Ballvé 23
OPENINGS
Strategic Challenges for Latin America’s
Anti-Neoliberal Insurgency by Gerardo Réniqu 35
Latin American Feminism:
Gains, Losses and Hard Times by Maruja Barrig 47
The Making of a Transnational Movement by Guillermo Delgado-P 59
Timely Demise for Free Trade Area of the Americas by Laura Carlsen 68
A NEW LEFT RISING?
The Kirchner Factor by Andrés Gaudin 77
Chavistas in the Halls of Power, Chavistas in the Streets by Jonah Gindin 86
Venezuela: Defying Globalization’s Logic by Steve Ellner 93
Is Venezuela the New Cuba? by Teo Ballvé 105
Paraguay’s Enigmatic President by Peter Lambert 108
Brazil Takes Lula’s Measure by Emir Sader 115
The Uruguayan Left and the Construction of Hegemony by Raúl Zibechi 130
Evo Morales Turns the Tide of History by Luis A. Gómez 140
INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS
¡Bolivia de pie! by Teo Ballvé 151
The Roots of the Rebellion: Insurgent Bolivia by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson 161
The Roots of the Rebellion: Reclaiming the Nation by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui 173
A Seat at the Table by Chris Jochnick and Paulina Garzón 183
A Sense of Possibility:
Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes Center Stage by Jennifer N. Collins 198
Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas by Richard Stahler-Sholk 215
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism by R. Aída Hernández Castillo 229
Incas, Indios and Indigenism in Peru by Shane Greene 243
Beset by Violence, Colombia’s Indigenous Resist by Mario A. Murillo 257
Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era
of the “Indio Permitido” by Charles R. Hale 266
GRASSING THE ROOTS
Brazil’s Landless Hold Their Ground by Harry E. Vanden 283
Testimony of an MST Settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha 297
Homeless Movement Builds Momentum by Nicholas Watson 300
Making a People’s Budget in Porto Alegre by Hilary Wainwright 305
Multinational Gold Rush in Guatemala by Benjamin Witte 316
Stories from the Borderland by David Bacon 325
Worker-Run Factories: From Survival to Economic Solidarity by Raúl Zibechi 339
Another World is Possible: The Ceramics of Zanon by Raúl Zibechi 350
Acknowledgments 359
Index 362

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