Benjamin Dangl

Benjamin Dangl is the founder of Upside Down World, an online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America, and editor of Toward Freedom, a progressive perspective on world events. He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia and the forthcoming Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (both AK Press) and the recipient of two Project Censored Awards for his reporting from Latin America.

Currently

  • Bolivia's Next Steps

    December 16, 2009

    Following an overwhelming re-election victory, President Evo Morales intends to "accelerate the process of change."

  • Obama Set for a Summit in the Sun

    April 16, 2009

    Barack Obama encounters Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for the first time at the Summit of the Americas, and the future of US-Latin America relations takes a new turn.

  • Lessons From Latin America

    March 4, 2009 Subscribe

    The region's social movements are a useful model for US leftists wanting to influence Obama.

2008

  • Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests

    May 3, 2008

    As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.

2007

  • Bolivia's Dance with Evo Morales

    March 29, 2007

    More than a year into President Evo Morales's first term, Bolivia remains in a labyrinth, somewhere between reform, revolution and national crisis.

2006

  • The US Military Descends on Paraguay

    July 12, 2006

    The US "war on terror" now extends to an unlikely frontier in Paraguay, where farmers are caught in the crossfire and human rights groups are skeptical of the threat posed by Islamic terrorists.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols
Posted at 8:46 PM ET

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
31 Comments

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
42 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
27 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
56 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
54 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman