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  • CAFTA’s Corpse, Revived

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2006

    New disputes are calling into question what the Central American Free Trade Agreement will look like in practice.

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  • Latin America Unchained

    by Mark Engler March 16, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 16, 2006

    Will the U.S. lose its influence over countries that have paid off their IMF loans?

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  • Politicizing U.S. Aid

    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006

    Under Bush’s new Director of Foreign Assistance, Randall Tobias, U.S. foreign assistance will be more overtly political than ever. Can progressives in good conscience demand increased aid?

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  • Bolivia and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America

    by Mark Engler and Benjamin Dangl March 2, 2006
    by Mark Engler and Benjamin Dangl March 2, 2006

    What will Evo Morales learn from leftist governments in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela?

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  • Crimes in Freedom’s Name

    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004

    Dick Cheney’s El Salvador.

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  • Old Dog, Same Tricks?

    by Mark Engler and Jeremy Varon September 15, 2004
    by Mark Engler and Jeremy Varon September 15, 2004

    The CIA then and now.

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  • Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist

    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004
    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004

    A review of How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor by El Fisgón.

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  • Oiled Again

    by Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez March 26, 2004
    by Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez March 26, 2004

    Free trade agreement threatens Costa Rican environmental protections.

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  • The Trouble With CAFTA

    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004

    A ratified CAFTA would represent a clear blow to poor and working people in the Americas. But that outcome is anything but certain.

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  • Bush’s Uneasy Mexican Visita

    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler January 16, 2004

    On the tenth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, President Bush encounters an unruly Latin America.

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Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
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