Interviews from Mexico, hosted by Laura Carlsen, goes straight to the source -- the men and women making news and making history in Mexico and throughout the region. In recent decades Latin America has seen major changes and been rocked by powerful social movements. What is the future for the majority of the region's exploited and excluded population? Can grass roots organizations from below bring about social change? In this week's program, Carlsen interviews international analyst and researcher Raul Zibechi, who has been adviser to such grass roots movements. Among other issues, he discusses the experiences of the Landless Movement in Brazil and the Zapatistas in Mexico in creating new types of social relations; the question of autonomy; the role of women in the new social movements; and the new left and center-left governments in Latin America, their impact on the popular sectors, and their limitations; and perspectives for the social movements. teleSUR
