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  • Brewing Poverty and Violence in El Salvador

    by Mark Engler April 22, 2002
    by Mark Engler April 22, 2002

    While President Bush has emphasized US aid to developing countries, the Salvadoran experience shows how the economic policies he is promoting on his Latin American tour work to deepen poverty …

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  • Liberation Theology and the Battle for Human Rights in El Salvador (1975-1999)

    by Mark Engler April 30, 1999
    by Mark Engler April 30, 1999

    An academic article on the evolving human rights discourse during the country’s civil war.

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  • 2006: A Global Justice Year in Review

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006

    The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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  • The Return of Daniel Ortega

    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006

    Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor.

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  • Mexico: Allow More Time For Democracy

    by Mark Engler July 14, 2006
    by Mark Engler July 14, 2006

    The demand for a full recount is a legitimate one.

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  • Mexico’s Democratic Transition Still Incomplete

    by Mark Engler July 6, 2006
    by Mark Engler July 6, 2006

    A campaign of fear may have kept Mexico locked into the status quo.

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  • Mexico’s Left Turn

    by Mark Engler June 29, 2006
    by Mark Engler June 29, 2006

    Bush won’t cheer a progressive win in Mexico’s presidential election, but the rest of us should.

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  • Globalization’s Watchdogs

    by Mark Engler May 26, 2006
    by Mark Engler May 26, 2006

    Railing against Bolivia’s oil and gas nationalization, the media’s “free trade” ideologues value markets over democracy.

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  • The Latin American Roots of Empire

    by Mark Engler May 8, 2006
    by Mark Engler May 8, 2006

    A review of Empire’s Workshop by Greg Grandin.

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  • Peru’s Populist Gamble

    by Mark Engler April 18, 2006
    by Mark Engler April 18, 2006

    Would a Win By Ollanta Humala Be Another Step Forward for the Latin American Left?

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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
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