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Dear Friends, There has been so much going on in the Americas lately that it’s hard to know where to begin. This new edition of the Americas Updater offers a good sampling of the breadth and depth of events in the region. As chronicled in This Week in the Americas, the Fourth World Water Forum held in Mexico City last week marked a turning point in the battle for public control over water. The Americas Program attended both the official and alternative forums, so expect more articles on this vital issue in the next Updater as well. Moving south, our investigative reporters Sam Logan, Ben Bain, and Kate Kairies write on the vexing rise of gang violence in Central America and the role of U.S. immigration and deportation policies in feeding the problem. From Argentina, Marie Trigona gives us a Citizen Action Profile containing the nuts and bolts of how recuperated enterprises in Argentina are challenging a competitive market system with worker-run, solidarity-based alternatives. Finally, monthly contributor Raúl Zibechi writes on grassroots involvement in the battle between Uruguay and Argentina over the construction of polluting paper plants on their shared river border, and our sister program FPIF takes an in-depth look at Chile’s new woman president, Michele Bachelet. We finish this issue with a broad view of how U.S. foreign policy could be reframed from the perspective of a Global Good Neighbor. As always, we’re not looking to cover events but to open up discussions on new trends and their implications and create a deeper North-South dialogue to confront shared challenges. We have a problem though. We need support. We’ve gotten to the point now that we really don’t know if we can continue to provide this service UNLESS you, our readers, help us out. If ever there was a time to give to the IRC Americas Program, this is it. We’ve been working hard to create intercontinental links and quality analysis, and to cut back FEATURED Climate Change
Conflicts of Interest and Sovereignty at Stake: The Ecuador-Canada FTABy Paola Jaimes Santamaria, Pedro Labayen Herrera Last month, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced the finalization of a “free trade”
April 8, 2025
 Activism
Milei’s Fire Sale of the Patagonia and the Mapuche people’s fight for lifeBy Laura Carlsen Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear,
April 4, 2025
 Democracies
Milei’s Government Faces the Winds of Failure in ArgentinaBy Ariela Ruiz Caro Last November, Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the IMF, met with President Javier Milei during
April 1, 2025
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