Green Guerrillas Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean A Reader

"Environmental campaigning came late to Latin America, because the military regimes which held the region in its grip for most of the 1970s and 80s saw any grass-roots movement as automatically subversive--proof, if proof were needed, that without democracy, there is little hope for the environment. For many contributors to 'Green Guerrillas', edited by Helen Collinso, it is the market-economy model, imposed on the region by international financial institutions like the WorldBank and the International Monetary Fund as part of structural-adjustment programs and as a pre-condition for development loans, which now poses the biggest threat to the region's environment."Collinson, Helen is the author of 'Green Guerrillas Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean A Reader', published 1996 under ISBN 9780853459804 and ISBN 0853459800.