Green Guerrillas Environmental Conflicts & Initiatives in Latin America & the Caribbean

"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 & Initiatives in Latin America & the Caribbean', published 1997 under ISBN 9781551640662 and ISBN 155164066X.