Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements

Contents
Foreword by Raúl Zibechi
Editors’ Introduction
Mexico
Introduction by Luis Ballesteros
Women in the Zapatista Movement
Voices from the Oaxaca uprising of 2006
Movement for National Renewal (MORENA)
Guatemala
Introduction by Phil Neff
Paula Barrios, Women Transforming the World (MTM)
Roberto Mendez, H.I.J.O.S. and CPR Urbana
Edwin E.A. Guevara, SITRAPETEN union organizer
Javier de León and Fernando Solís, anti-mining activists
Honduras
Introduction by Adrienne Pine
Nery Rodríguez, middle-school teacher
Leda Sánchez, Marina Pagoada, and Juana Buchanan, Nurses in Resistance
Sara Hernández, Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguán (MUCA)
Ricardo, gay activist, FNRP member
El Salvador
Introduction by J. Heyward
Miguel Rivera, community organizer
Lower Lempa River/Bay of Jiquilisco Coordinating Committee
Lilian Coto de Cuellar, FMLN National Secretariat for Women
Oswaldo Natarén and members of the University Front of Roque Dalton
Nicaragua
Introduction by Clifton Ross
Andrea Morales Pérez, Sandinista Workers’ Federation
Altagracia del Socorro Solís, Banana Workers’ Encampment
Gloria Paniagua, Another World Is Possible
Victor Hugo Tinoco, Sandinista Renewal Movement
Luisa Molina, Civil Coordinating Committee
Yamilet Mejía, feminist lawyer and activist
Colombia
Introduction by Mario A. Murillo
Manuela Ruiz, ecologist
Luis Yonda, Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca
Antonio Navarro Wolff, governor of Nariño state, former M-19 guerrilla
Jesús Tuberquía, San José de Apartadó Peace Community
Venezuela
Introduction by Clifton Ross
Rosangela Orozco, El Panal 2021 Commune
J. Arturo Albarrán, National Socialist Council for Agroecology
María Vicenta Dávila, popular educator
Alexis Romero, indigenous activist
Orlando Chirino, CCURA (United Revolutionary Autonomous Class Current),
oil industry worker
Ecuador
Introduction by Marc Becker
Milton Chamorro, Itchimbía land occupation
Humberto Cholango, ECUARUNARI/CONAIE
Dioyenes Lucio, FENOCIN (National Federation of Indigenous, Peasant, and
Black Organizations)
Monica Chuji Gualinga, CONAIE, Constitutional Assembly
Luis Macas, Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures (ICCI)
Brazil
Introduction by Michael Fox
Ana Hanauer, Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Nelsa Inês Fabian Nespolo, “We Will Overcome Cooperative of United
Seamstresses”
Ana Vanesca and Pedro Cardoso, City of Plastic and the Urban Resistance
Front
Eliana Sousa Silva, favela activist
Raimundo Belmiro, rubber tapper and environmental activist
Peru
Introduction by Raphael Hoetmer and Mar Daza
Hugo Blanco, writer and activist
Margarita Pérez Anchiraico, community organizer in National Confederation
of Peruvian Communities Affected by Mining (CONACAMI)
Magdiel Carrión, Ayabaca Provincial Federation of Peasant Communities,
CONACAMI
Luzmila Chiricente and Sari Salinas Ponce, Regional Federation of
Ashaninka, Nomatsiguengas, and Kakintes Women from the Central Jungle
(FREMANK)
Veronica Ferrari, Homosexual Movement of Lima
Bolivia
Introduction by Ben Dangl
Pedro Portugal Mollinedo, editor of Pukara
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, scholar and activist
Julieta Ojeda, Mujeres Creando/Women Creating
Oscar Olivera, writer and activist
Paraguay
Introduction by Ben Dangl
Oscar Caceres, Secretariat of Information and Communication for
Development (SICOM)
Hipólito Acevei and Emiliano Vera, Coordination for the Self-Determination
of Indigenous Peoples (CAPI)
Jorge Galeano, Popular and Agrarian Movement (MAP)
Liz Becker, Social and Popular Front
Francisco Estigarribia, member of National Coordination of Adolescent and
Child Workers (CONNATs)
Marielle Palau, BASE Social Research
Uruguay
Introduction by Raúl Zibechi
Helios Sarthou, Frente Amplio/Broad Front
Gustavo, Pablo, and Noelia, Galpón de Corrales community center
Argentina
Introduction by Marie Trigona
Diego Benegas Loyo, H.I.J.O.S. (Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice
Against Forgetting and Silence)
Franco Basualdo, Prensa de Frente
Ernesto “Lalo” Paret, Movement of Recovered Companies
Claudia Acuña, Colectivo lavaca
Chile
Introduction by Marcy Rein
Edmundo Jiles, José Calderón Miranda Human Rights Committee
Iván Fuentes, Social Movement for Aysén
La Negra, feminist activist
José Ancalao, Federation of Mapuche Students
Marjory Cuello, Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH)
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Resources
Notes