The history of Sarayaku and their continuing struggle for justice in the face of such

I was supposed to fly home today. This was supposed to be the end of

I am going to interrupt my blogs about the Amazon School to include some thoughts

During the week of July 25 – 30 hundreds of socially-conscious activists from all over

It is the middle of my week here in Puyo. Classes at the Amazon School

I, along with Laura Timme (the other CDES intern-an M.A. student at Columbia), arrived at

“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!!!!!” (“The people united will never be defeated!”) These immortal

This is the stuff you read in books, I kept thinking, as I sat across

What will be the relationship between CDES and the Advocacy Project after I leave Quito?

I have been sick for over a week. Living in a new and completely different

Juan Forero, noted correspondent for the New York Times in Latin America, published a three

This morning the CDES conference room filled up quickly with Ecuadorian human, indigenous and environmental

Understanding language and understanding culture are two very different things. Now that I have been

Yesterday, driving through Quito with my Ecuadorian host brother, I saw blood red graffiti on

Every time I prepare to travel to Latin America, I ask my parents if they