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Ben Dangl
Ben studied writing and literature at Bard College and Latin American history and literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. He is the author of the book The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (AK Press, 2007), which has been published in Spanish by Plural Editores in Bolivia and in Tamil by The New Century Publishing House in Tamil Nadu, India. Dangl is also a contributor to Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Latin American Issues (McGraw-Hill, 2006). Dangl has worked as a journalist covering politics and social issues in Latin America for over six years, writing for publications such as The Guardian Unlimited, The Nation Magazine, The Progressive, Utne Reader, CounterPunch, Alternet, Common Dreams, Z Magazine, La Estrella de Panama and dozens of other media outlets. He has received two Project Censored Awards from Sonoma University for his investigative reports on US government and military intervention in Latin America. Dangl has been interviewed on a variety of news programs including the BBC and Democracy Now!.Dangl teaches Latin American history and politics and globalization at Burlington College in Vermont. He is the founder and editor of Upside Down World, a publication on politics and social movements in Latin America, and works as the editor of Toward Freedom, a progressive perspective on world events.He has been a participant in various anti-war and anti-globalization movements in the US and elsewhere in the Americas. Dangl is also a member of the Burlington, VT Homebrewer's Co-op. writing at www.bendangl.net
Following the election, new checks and balances to MAS party power may continue to open up spaces of dissent, debate and contestation that will deepen Bolivia’s wider process of change
This movement toward decolonization in the Andes is as old as colonialism itself
Interview on the role of historical memory in the country’s radical politics, and the importance of decolonizing Bolivia’s history of indigenous resistance
Evo Morales’ Inauguration in Tiwanaku
Washington’s torture, war crimes and military industrial complex are consistently propped up by the concept of U.S. exceptionalism
With a $4 billion price tag, the recent US midterm election was the most expensive in the country’s history
Photo essay of the October 17th march, including the vast participation of the neighborhood councils and family members of Gas War victims
On the car-less, sunny streets of La Paz on election day, the enthusiasm for the government was palpable
Evo Morales will most likely be re-elected today because he is a better alternative than his neoliberal predecessors and their contemporary counterparts