ABSTRACT
Latin American social movements provide some of the most vivid political images in a region that does not lack for color. To give just a few examples, over a million Brazilians painted their faces black and marched to encourage their National Congress to impeach thenPresident Collor; Bolivian indigenous peoples gathered behind their own multi-colored ag to successively demand a change in gas policy, two presidents’ resignations, and a new constitution; and the Zapatistas transformed global understandings of what was possible in the neoliberal age with their 1994 uprising in Mexico. As these examples show, social movements have been not just present in Latin American countries, but often successful in changing the direction of political systems.
