(Sept. 27, 2005) Wine producers breathed a sigh of relief as Aníbal Ariztía, President of the Chilean Wine Association, announced a historic grape harvest this year – up 25 percent over 2004. Wine producers have had a hard time over the last few years because of the high cost of primary materials needed to make… Read More HISTORIC GRAPE HARVEST IN CHILE
(Sept. 26, 2005) The island home of Alexander Selkirk, the man whose true story inspired the famous novel “Robinson Crusoe,” has finally been uncovered on Robinson Crusoe Island, 645 kilometers off the coast of Chile in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. Although the island has long been known as the place where Selkirk was cast away… Read More ROBINSON CRUSOE SITE DISCOVERED IN CHILE
(Sept 26, 2005) Myth became reality last Wednesday when astonished explorers discovered what could be US$10 billion worth of gold, silver, and jewels buried on Robinson Crusoe Island. Using robot technology, a team from Wagner Technologies claims they have found the lost treasure of Spanish Conquistador Juan Esteban Ubilla y Echeverría. According to legend, the… Read More GOLD FOUND ON ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND
A team of engineers was run off by fishermen Monday after pulp and paper manufacturer Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (Celco) announced plans to dump industrial waste in their fishing grounds. The team was surveying potential dump sites near the coast of Corral in southern Chile when they were confronted by the concerned fishers and forced… Read More FISHERMAN STOP CELCO SCIENTISTS
(Sept. 23, 2005) If you are looking for that distinctive taste of Chile, Carmenenère may be what you’ve been waiting for. Ten years after Chilean vineyards invested heavily in the distinctive wine, connoisseurs around the world are ready to taste the fruits of their labors. There was a “rediscovery” of Carmenenère wines in Chile in… Read More Chilean Vineyards Bet of Carmenere
Tax Exemptions And Military Pension Fund Cost Chile Over US$5 Billion In 2005 (Sept 22, 2005) In an effort to reduce government spending, government officials reopened two controversial debates in Congress this past week: tax shelters for business development in the extreme regions of the country and the apparent insolvency of the military pension plan.… Read More CHILE’S FINANCE MINISTER CALLS FOR SPENDING REFORMS
(Sept. 20, 2005) Chilean and Argentinean officials announced an agreement on wheat tariffs Friday. Following more than five years of tense negotiations, the agreement was greeted with mixed emotions around the country. Chile agreed to suspend protective tariffs on 10,000 metric tons of Argentinean wheat – representing 0.8 percent of national wheat production – in… Read More CHILE SIGNS WHEAT AGREEMENT WITH ARGENTINA
(Sept 14, 2005) Ex-Colonia Dignidad doctor Harmut Hopp was released on bail last week after denying charges of human rights violations. Pointing the finger at Paul Schafer, leader of the right-wing paramilitary group of Germans in the south of Chile, Hopp denied any knowledge of illegal activities at the Colony compound. Colonia Dignidad was a… Read More COURT RELEASES COLONIA DIGNIDAD DOCTOR
Florencia Mallon’s 2005 book, Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001, examines the history of a Mapuche indigenous community in southern Chile, focusing on their defense of land and culture in the face of State colonization from 1906 to 2001. Her monograph places archival documents in dialogue… Read More Courage Tastes of Blood: Florencia Mallon
Rappaport, Joanne. Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia. Latin America Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Citation Gallegos, Franklin R. La Insurrección de Abril No Fue Sólo Una Fiesta. Quito: Taller El Colectivo, 2005.
Citation Striffler, Steve. “Class Formation in Latin America: One Family’s Enduring Journey between Country and City.” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 65 (2004): 11–25.
Citation Herzog, Tamar. Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650—1750). History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Citation Benavides, O. Hugo. Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Citation Ferraro, Emilia. Reciprocidad, Don y Deuda: Relaciones y Formas de Intercambio En Los Andes Ecuatorianos: La Comunidad de Pesillo. Quito: FLACSO-Abya Yala, 2004.
Citation Becker, Marc. “Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944).” International Review of Social History, Supplement 12, no. 49 (2004): 41-64.
Citation Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Citation López Sandoval, María Fernanda. Agricultural and Settlement Frontiers in the Tropical Andes: The Páramo Belt of Northern Ecuador, 1960-1990. Regensburg: Institut für Geographie an der Universität Regensburg, 2004.
Citation Zamosc, Leon. “The Indian Movement in Ecuador: From Politics of Influence to Politics of Power.” In The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America, ed. Nancy Grey Postero and Leon Zamosc, 131-157. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2004.
Citation Sawyer, Suzana. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Mutlinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Death in the sun-drenched fields or torture in the shade of the house? Resistance or collaboration? How did enslaved Africans cope with the trauma of life on Anglo-Jamaican sugar plantations in the eighteenth century? These are some of the very disturbing questions Trevor Burnard tackles in chapter six of Mastery, Tyranny, & Desire, where he… Read More Mastery, Tyranny, & Desire: Trevor Burnard
Citation Williams, Derek. “Popular Liberalism and Indian Servitude: The Making and Unmaking of Ecuador’s Antilandlord State, 1845-1868.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83, no. 4 (November 2003): 697-733.
Citation Sevilla Larrea, Carmen. Vida y Muerte en Quito: Raíces del Sujeto Moderno en la Colonia Temprana. 2da. ed. Quito: Abya Yala, 2003.
Citation Whitten, Norman E., ed. Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Citation Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003.
Citation Cahill, David Patrick, and Blanca Tovías, eds. Elites Indígenas En Los Andes: Nobles, Caciques y Cabildantes Bajo El Yugo Colonial. 1. ed. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2003.
Citation López Paredes, Dolores. “Aproximación histórica de los cambios de la seguridad y consumo alimentario entre los pueblos quichuas de la sierra ecuatoriana : Otavalos y Cayambis en la cuenca del Lago San Pablo, provincia de Imbabura,” November 6, 2002. http://repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec/handle/10469/709.
Lucio Gutiérrez, an army colonel who helped overthrow two previous governments, was elected president in a second-round runoff vote against banana-export magnate Álvaro Noboa. Leader of the “Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero” party and allied with the Indigenous Pachakutik and populist revolutionary party Movimineto Popular Democrático, Gutiérrez ran on a reform and anti-corruption platform amid an ongoing political crisis that has seen the collapse of the South American nation’s financial system and dollarization of the economy.… Read More Ecuador Elects Army Colonel President in Runoff Vote Against Banana Magnate
Citation Pallares, Amalia. From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Citation Lane, Kris E. Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
Citation Costales Samaniego, Alfredo, and Dolores Costales Peñaherrera. Huambracuna: La Epopeya de Yahuarcocha. 1era. ed. Quito: Abya Yala : IEAG, 2002.
Citation Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
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