TY - BOOK AU - Prashad Vijay AU - Ballve Teo TI - Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism SN - 9780896087682 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge PB - South End Press KW - 94(7) Історія Північної та Центральної Америки KW - UDC N2 - About the Author Teo Ballvé is a NACLA editor and a contributing news editor for the Resource Center of the Americas http://www.americas.org. Vijay Prashad, associate professor and director of International Studies at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, is the author of the widely acclaimed Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Beacon, 2001) and Karma of Brown Folk (Minnesota, 2000) both chosen as one of the 25 best books of the year by the Village Voice. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. They Rise From the Earth: The Promise of Latin America By Vijay Prashad Nadie sabe donde enterraron los asesinos estos cuerpos, pero ellos saldrán de la tierra a cobrar la sangre caída en la resurrección del pueblo. Nobody knows where the assassins buried these bodies, but they'll rise from the earth to redeem the fallen blood in the resurrection of the people. —Pablo Neruda (Canto General; tr. Jack Schmitt) Every generation of North Americans must come to terms with Latin America. For us, front and center, is the question of neo-liberal policy. Latin America suffers and struggles against a bundle of policies promoted by the US government in Washington, DC, by the banks in New York City, London as well as Madrid, and by Latin America's own oligarchies. Poverty and hopelessness, the harvest of neo-liberalism for workers and peasants, has led to displacement and migration. Many of those who come north, to El Norte, for work and to rekindle their hopes, are products of the neo-liberal policies exported from North America. The battle against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and for a fair US immigration policy is principally a fight for the creation of a just dispensation in the Americas. Resistance against neo-liberalism has fueled the rise of left-wing governments and movements across Latin America. They bear within them the answers to many of our common challenges. It is worthwhile to see what they are up to and up against, as well as to see how we, in North America, can get sympathetically involved in the movement for the future of Latin America. The book you hold in your hands is our attempt to provide a map of Latin America's aspirations and challenges. It is offered to you by Teo Ballve and myself as a way to get you acquainted with the fast-changing developments in Latin America, from an assessment by Emir Sader of the Lula regime in Brazil to Raúl Zibechi's cartography of worker control over some of Argentina's factories. The large and the small experiments are documented and analyzed. Nothing is seen from a utopian standpoint, because this would doom our appraisal to inevitable failure. These are largely materialist estimations based on the constraints of the histories of each separate Latin American society, of the hierarchies that check the imagination of the population. Oftentimes, we get carried away with this or that current, but in most cases, the writers in this volume are also constrained by the politics of possibility ER -