ABSTRACT
Alter-globalization in Latin America has been absorbed into important issues such as environmental struggles, opposition to mining, and the protection of lands. The term “alter-globalization” or “alter-mundialization” refers to a series of global protests in which social movements, organizations, and political collectives from all continents participate in opposition to the neoliberal unification of the planet and its consequences. Consumer-protection organizations, environmental associations, and direct-action movements, in addition to large and small nongovernmental organizations, have worked for years around the world, often in cooperation. In Latin America during those same years, a movement was growing and it was not just the Zapatistas in Mexico but one that dated back to the protests in 1992 against the 500th anniversary of the so-called “Discovery” of America. The Second People’s Summit in Quebec, Canada, in 2001, mobilized thousands of people in the streets and resolved to launch the Continental Campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and a Continental Popular Referendum.
