Presentation by Karleen West, SUNY Geneseo October 4, 7:00 pm Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 North Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, NY The church is accessible to those with handicaps and looped for the hearing impaired. Karleen West is Assistant Professor of...
The president still faces tough challenges in modernising the economy and overcoming an intractable colonial legacy Boaventura de Sousa Santos The Guardian, Thursday 29 May 2014 11.34 EDT Go to original Leftwing Latin American intellectuals have made two...
YOU ARE INVITED! Rochester Committee on Latin America Presents Ecuador: Politics, environment and the continuing challenges for indigenous communities with Paola Macas Betchart Paola Macas Betchart is an Environmental Anthropologist who was born and raised in...
Truthout Wednesday, 25 September 2013 09:49 By Sally Burch, Truthout | Op-Ed Ecuador’s president has launched a call for people around the world to boycott Chevron products, in rejection of the company’s evasion of responsibility for oil contamination in the Amazon...
There is one area of the Ecuadorian Amazon that is so pristine that the whole ecosystem has been preserved and even jaguars roam free! But the government is now threatening to go in and drill for oil. The local indigenous people have been resisting, but they are...