The escalating momentum of extractive industries is causing great threats for indigenous peoples worldwide. The right to participate in decision making that will affect their lives and future, and the principle of free, prior, and informed consent have thus been high on the national and international agenda for indigenous peoples this year.

In over seventy articles and country reports, The Indigenous World 2012 gives a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights, and reports on the most important developments in international processes...

Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered real political crimes, an instant historian of a turbulent and violent era in Argentinian and Latin American politics. He was in Cuba in 1960, participating in setting up the first revolutionary press service in Latin America, -Prensa Latina-, when a coded telex arrived in their offices by mistake. After sleepless nights and with one cryptography manual, Walsh deciphered the plans for the US invasion of Cuba being planned in Guatemala by the CIA. Walsh was active in the Montonero guerrilla in...

In Columbus: His Enterprise, Hans Koning describes the personality and motivation of a man who changed the course of history. Exploding the myth of the Great Navigator, the author reveals how Colombus accidentally found a continent and systematically pillaged its resources. This controversial book depicts a Columbus not only obsessed by gold but willing to endorse murder for it. 1992 marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the New World. To the indigenous peoples of Latin America the event was no cause for rejoicing. In an afterwood to Columbus: His Enterprise,...

This is an exploration of the region's music--its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans--and traces its African, Asian and European roots.

Colombia is a country of dramatic and contradictory images. Officially it is a Latin American successs story, with steady growth, political stability and a large middle class. Yet it has become notorious for the activities of the so-called Medellin and Cali cartels and the violence surrounding the cocaine trade. Although credited with the region's longest lasting democracy, it has been the scene of extreme political and criminal violence which gives it the highest murder rate in the world.

Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth explains the reality behind the official and the actual...

An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development. Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of viewpoints to discuss the effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in debtor countries. This primer text argues that, due to debt, four fifths of the world's population cannot develop while inequality between the rich and the poor grows. This book provides invaluable analysis for activists who have campaigned successfully with Jubilee 2000 and other campaigns, and for...