Regional Alternatives in Latin America

Rethinking regionalisms in times of crises

October 2013
Carlos Bedoya, Jenina Joy Chavez, Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Afsar Jafri, Dot Keet, Meena R Menon, Mariana Mortágua, Graciela Rodriguez, Andy Storey, Oscar Ugarteche

The demand for people-centred regional alternatives has been at the core of people’s struggles in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. This reader pulls together perspectives of social movement activists, describing the restrictive regional spaces within which they work and propose regional alternatives.

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE): An exceptional public enterprise in an atypical social democracy

July 2013

Despite immense pressure by corporations that have sought to undermine it, Costa Rica's public energy and telecommunications company stands out as a model in terms of its coverage, efficiency, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.

EU crisis: Another way is possible

June 2012

What can we learn from Latin America? Public talk with Susan George, Pablo Solon and Pedro Paez; June 7th at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

Public Debt, Regional Integration and The South Bank

March 2012

The EU debt crisis foretells a more serious global debt crisis, caused by unlimited growth and the ongoing financial casino. Latin America's emerging financial and regional architecture offers hope for a new type of integration based on solidarity. 

Financial Governance Beyond the Crisis

October 2011
Interview by Sofia T. Jarrin

Dr. Pedro Paez talks about the creation of a new financial architecture in Latin America, based on principles of redistribution, environmental sustainability and social cohesion rather than market principles that dominated the old architecture.

Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Neoliberalism?

November 2010

Exploring the current neoliberal conjuncture in Latin America and the Caribbean in light of its historica legacies and contemporary trends, the conference will look at neoliberal sectoral reforms, public policy and state restructuring, responses and resistance to neoliberalism, and artistic, cultural and ideological transformation.

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The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru

October 2010
Thomas Fritz

The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses - which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction - for the sake of corporate profit.

The Lisbon Treaty: Workshop with Susan George at Enlazando Alternativas, 2010

May 2010

Despite repeated democratic rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Commission pushed ahead with it via the EU Constitution via a private, technocratic and non-democratic process. Susan discussed the treaty and its implications in a workshop at the EA4 summit in Madrid, 15 May 2010.

Photostream: Linking Alternatives 4 - Enlazando Alternativas 4

May 2010

Photostream from the Linking Alternatives-Enlazando Alternativas Peoples' Summit that took place in Madrid (Spain) from 14 to 18 May 2010.

Programme of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, May 2010

May 2010

Programme and background to Peoples' Tribunal on "Neoliberal Policies and European Transnational Corporations (TNCs) in Latin America and the Caribbean”.