Interchange – Making Claims from the Coca Fields: Women’s Autonomy and the Colombian National Strike

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 11:05 p.m.

Throughout 2019, an unprecedented amount of massive protests, marches, and strikes occurred in various countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, all commonly giving voice to the sharp inequality throughout these societies that has been produced by the increasing austerity of economic policy modeled on neoliberalism. While similar to these examples, Colombia nevertheless offers a …