Mexico City Some recognition of the role of unions emerging among informal workers is easier to be seen in Latin America. It was unsurprising to read that one of the clearest voices expressing concern about the impact of the devaluation of the peso in Argentina by the new government and its impact on inflation and …
Tag: Latin America
Nicaragua for My Father
New Orleans My father, much missed, used to ask me whenever I returned from a country “new” to both of us not to tell him so much about what I had done, but what I had seen that would surprise or interest him. In many ways, Nicaragua surprised all of us from the Organizers’ Forum. …
Alternative Universes Collide between North and South on Hugo Chavez Re-election
Quito Landing in Ecuador after 11 pm and clearing customs, Hugo Chavez’s press conference was on all of the television sets as we exited the airport. The first question I was asked as I headed for the hotel was whether or not I had heard that Chavez was re-elected. This was big news in Ecuador, …