Selected Articles

  • Globalizing Resistance in Cancún

    NACLA Report on the Americas, Feature, Nov 01, 2003

    As the World Trade Organization’s Fifth Ministerial Meeting was kicked-off September 10 in Cancún, Mexico, the battle on the streets began. Demonstrators and police in full riot gear exchanged blows with sticks and batons as large jagged chunks of pavement and rocks were being hurled at the police line.

  • Cuba: Crackdown on Dissidents

    NACLA Report on the Americas, News Report, May 02, 2003

    Cuban courts handed down heavy sentences of up to 28 years in the first weeks of April, after authorities arrested scores of government critics in a crackdown on what they deemed subversive activities. According to the unofficial Cuban Commission on Human Rights and Reconciliation led by veteran human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez, among the arrested were at least 75 independent journalists, pro-democracy activists, owners of private lending libraries and leaders of opposition political parties.