Dispatches from Latin America : on the frontlines against neoliberalism / edited by Teo Ballvé and Vijay Prashad

Includes bibliographical references and Index.

Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency / Gerardo Rénique -- Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times / Maruja Barrig -- The making of a transnational movement / Guillermo Delgado-P. -- Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas / Laura Carlsen -- The Kirchner Factor / Andrés Gaudin -- Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets / Jonah Gindin -- Venezuela: defying globalization's logic / Steve Ellner -- Is Venezuela the new Cuba? / Teo Ballvé -- Paraguay's enigmatic president / Peter Lambert -- Brazil takes Lula's measure / Emir Sader -- The Uruguayan left and the construction of hegemony / Raúl Zibechi -- Evo Morales turns the tide of history / Luis A. Gómez -- Bolivia de pie / Teo Ballvé -- The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia / Forrest Hylton, Sinclair Thomson -- The roots of the rebellion: reclaiming the nation / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- A seat at the table / Chris Jochnick, Paulina Garzón -- A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes centre stage / Jennifer N. Collins -- Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas / Richard Stahler-Sholk -- Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism / R. Aída Hernández Castillo -- Incas, Indios, and indigenism in Peru / Shane Greene -- Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist / Mario A. Murillo -- Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio permitido" / Charles R. Hale -- Brazil's landless hold their ground / Harry. E. Vanden -- Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas / Sue Branford, Jan Rocha -- Homeless movement builds momentum / Nicholas Watson -- Making people's budget in Porto Alegre / Hilary Wainwright -- Multinational gold rush in Guatemala / Benjamin Witte -- Stories from the borderland / David Bacon -- Worker-run factories: from survival to economic solidarity / Raúl Zibechi -- Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon / Raúl Zibechi.

From the laboratory of neoliberalism-popularly known as "globalization"-Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread it devastation, robust and throughtful opposition emerged in response-in the recovered factory movement of Argentina, in the presidential elections of indigenous leaders and radicals like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, against the privatization of water in Bolivia. Across Latin America, people are building social movements to take back control of their countries and their lives.