Latin America and the Caribbean

MADRE Articles

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• Día de la MADRE: In Celebration of Mothers around the Globe

• Nicaragua Emergency and Disaster Relief

• Update on Earthquake Victims in Peru

• Indigenous Women: Fighting for Rights, Creating Change

• Violence against Indigenous Women

• ALERT: Nicaraguan Assembly Bans Abortion

• Nicaraguans Cast Votes against US Intervention

• What's So Liberal About Neoliberalism?

• MADRE Stands with Immigrants' Call for Justice

• Working to End Violence against Indigenous Women

• MADRE Congratulates Bolivia's President-Elect Evo Morales

• MADRE Condemns Attack on Transvestite Sex Workers in Guatemala

• Top 10 Reasons Why Latin American Women Oppose Bush's Free Trade Agenda

• MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals

• Cuba: A MADRE Position Paper

• Violence Against Women in Latin America: A MADRE Position Paper

• Indigenous Women and Sustainable Development

• Articles and Resources: Latin America and the Caribbean

• Abducting Democracy: A MADRE Statement on Haiti's 33rd Coup d'Etat

• Women's Health in a Sick World

• MADRE Demands Justice for the Cuban Five

• Indigenous Women and International Law

• Colombia's Conflict: The Basics

• A MADRE Interview with Noam Chomsky

• New US-Cuba Policies

• Violence Against Women in Latin America

• Country Overview: Colombia
• Country Overview: Cuba
• Country Overview: Guatemala
• Country Overview: Haiti
• Country Overview: Mexico
• Country Overview: Nicaragua

Additional Resources

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• Last Harvest? Industrialization Plan Threatens Central America’s Indigenous (Americas.org)
• Fair Trade or Free Trade? Understanding CAFTA (WOLA)
• Women, Just Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Center Focus, Global Policy Forum)
• BREAKING BOUNDARIES II, The Free Trade Area of the Americas and Women: Understanding the Connections (US Gender and Trade Network)
• The Struggle for Latin America’s Water (Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, NACLA)
• Region Grapples with Complex Water Issues (David Boddiger, Tico Times)
• Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup (Oxfam)
• Paint by Numbers: Trends in U.S. Military Programs with Latin America & Challenges to Oversight (Latin American Working Group, Center for International Policy, Washington Office on Latin America)
• Who Removed Aristide? Paul Farmer Reports From Haiti (London Review of Books)
• The Autonomy Tale (Americas.org)
• The Wrong Road: Colombia’s National Security Policy (Latin America Working Group, July 2003)
• You’ll Learn Not to Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia (Human Rights Watch)
• Colombia's War on Children (Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict, February 2004)
• Old Domino’s New Clothes (Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
• Intolerable Killings: Ten years of Abductions and Murders in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua (Amnesty International)
• Murder in Juarez and Beyond (Dannah Baynton, Americas.org
• Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers (OXFAM)
• NAFTA, Corn, and Mexico’s Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Gisele Henriques and Raj Patel, Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center)
• Fields of Free Trade: Mexico’s Small Farmers in a Global Economy (Timothy A. Wise, Dollars & Sense)
• DEEP CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Amnesty International's Assessment Of The Current Human Rights Situation In Guatemala