Latin America and the Caribbean

The European Union: promoter of regional integration in Latin America?

Rhetoric and Reality

An examination of the contrast between the EU‘s professed aims for supporting regional integration in Latin America with the actual experiences of the different regions in LA with which the EU is seeking to sign Association Agreements.

Changing the flow

Water movements in Latin America

Twelve brief interviews with water activists from Latin America as well
as declarations from a historic gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in
August, 2008

The New Latin American Left - Utopia Reborn

10 November 2008

VENUE: CEDLA, Keizersgracht 397, Amsterdam
TIME: Monday 10 November, 15.30 – 17.00
Free entrance

The New Latin American Left - Utopia Reborn
Debate and book presentation organized bij TNI & CEDLA
Speakers:
Edgardo Lander, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Rosalba Icaza, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague
Daniel Chavez, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
Discussant: Kees Biekart, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague
Chair: Barbara Hogenboom, CEDLA, Amsterdam
The resurgence of the left in Latin America has taken Social and political analysts by surprise since

The New Latin American Left

Utopia Reborn

A comprehensive study of the wide variety of leftist governments, parties and movements in the region, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela

Transnational Corporations on Trial

On the threat to human rights posed by European companies in Latin America

This study analyses existing legal means of holding European transnational companies liable for extraterritorial human rights violations. The authors examine four representative legal cases against European companies in Latin America that revolve around problems typical in the region.

Review of <i>La nueva izquierda en América Latina</i>

Authors

Author(s):

TNI

External author(s):

Miguel Ángel Villena

This was originally published at:

El Pais

In the last decade, the left has taken power by democratic means in several Latin American countries. But we should rather speak of ‘the lefts’ in the plural as one of the key features of this enormous transformation is the wide variety of progressive forces in government, ranging from more or less classic social democrats – Michelle Bachelet in Chile – to a sort of populism with authoritarian tendencies – Hugo Chávez’s regime in Venezuela – through political strategies of quite difficult classification – such as Lula’s government in Brazil.

Water: common good, public management and alternatives

Location

Cochabamba, Bolivia

23 August 2008 - 25 August 2008

The "Water: common good, public management and alternatives" conference is a collaboration between Reclaiming Public Water(RPW) Network and red VIDA and was organised by an organising commission with the participation of Adriana Marquisio, Carmen Sosa, Claudia Campero , Danilo Urrea, Marcela Oliver and Philipp Terhorst.

This regional conference in the Americas on public and
communitarian water alternatives is part of the RPW strategy of holdin

Integration of the Peoples

Subtitle:

Building alternatives in Latin America

TNI participant(s):

Cecilia Olivet

Non TNI participant(s):

Ricardo Santos

Multimedia

This documentary aims to present the state of the debate on alternatives for regional integration as this is unfolding among social movements and civil society organizations throughout the Latin American continent.

unused fields

Related report(s):

Hemispheric Social Alliance

Director/Producer:

Cecilia Olivet/Ricardo Santos

President Evo Morales to play football game during EU-LAC Summit

The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace

In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in Lima, Peru.

Burgués sí, pero, ¿reformista?

En el marco del desafío planteado por el lockout de los empresarios agrícolas se planteó el debate sobre los alcances políticos de la medida. En estas páginas, el sociólogo Eduardo Grüner argumentó que estaba en juego la legitimidad del Estado para intervenir en la economía y alertaba sobre los peligros “si la derecha gana”.