Nelly Avendaño from Perú

Nelly Avendaño is a water and basic public service defender in Peru. Since 2004, she has been fighting, along with the Water Defense Front, against the privatization of this basic resource. Currently she is working with her community, Huancayo, to build a new model for public water management. It will be a model that is modern, participative, and efficient. Nelly strongly questions the sale of water and natural resources as promoted in the Free Trade Agreement, signed recently between the Peruvian and the U.S. government.

Condoning Unlawful External Debt: a voice from Uruguay

Eduardo Busollo is a member of the National Commission in Defense of Water and Life in Uruguay. Eduardo calls for eliminating the pressure for payment of unlawful external debt that drags down Latin American countries, which, as he mentions, was acquired during dictatorial regimes in past decades. He also recommends that the United States government stop acting by force and take responsibility for problems at home before trying to solve those that other countries have.

Power of the People

Vote is not enough? We want deep changes! A Bolivian explains to a gringo the impact of U.S. policies have in Latin America. This is political humor showing how people from the U.S. and Latin America can work together to influence in the decisions that impact BOTH of our lives.