2 articles

• "Covid-19 Mutual Aid. Initiatives of Indigenous Peoples" Map

  6 July 2020, by Aurélie Journée-Duez, CSIA-Nitassinan

  This collaborative evolutionary mapping project seeks to identify initiatives of direct solidarity with indigenous peoples. Led by indigenous groups, organizations and institutions, these initiatives aim to fill the gaps in the management of national states in this crisis that particularly affects indigenous peoples.

• South America: The end of a cycle?

  2 July 2018, by Autres Brésils, Glauber Sezerino, Ritimo

  Out of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes that have marked them deeply between the 1960s and the 1980s, a large number of South American countries have seen the emergence of democratization processes based on policies often described as right-wing.

  This economic-political model ran out of steam at the end of the 1990s. The sub-continent sees the arrival in power of new political elites, mostly from social movements born in the previous period.

  However, from 2010, in a context of retraction of the global economy, these projects seem threatened by their internal limits. In this context, this "left cycle" seems to be coming to an end - or at least in the face of a blockade - with the advancement of the right wings within these left-wing governments.

  In this dossier, we will try to analyze the specific dynamics of this ongoing process in the subcontinent.