Praise for Dancing with Dynamite

- In Dancing with Dynamite, journalist Ben Dangl breaks the sound harrier.
reporting on progressive changes that have swept South America in the past
decade, exploding many myths about Latin America that are all-too-often
amplified by the corporate media in the United Statea. Read this much-
needed book." —Amy Goodman. Dottorracy Now!

"beaming with Dynamit e gives a strong sense of the vibrant social activism
underway in many different countties of Latin America. as well as the com-
plex relationship between social movements and the radical leaders that they
have helped put into power. A recommended read for anyone interested in the
possibilities of social change in Latin America today." —Sujatha Fernandes,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

"For more than a decade, social activists in North America and Europe have
gained confidence that a new world is txrible in light of the dynamic social
movements in Latin America, particularly those of the Indigenous Peoples,
but have not figured mu how to apply the strategies ofthose imwentents to
situations in the North. Doming with Lbnattine provides profound insights
and a guide to how that might be done. Ben Dangl has earned a reputation
as a tireless and reliable connection between nvo worlds, and this hook is
essential reading at the right moment." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. author
of Roots of &lion:lee

"Perhaps the MIX* important book tins year. Dancing with 011iffnik is a road-
map for social change front the bottom up. Backed by years of travel extensive
research, and powerful story-telling, Ben Danes book carries us across the
Americas, deep into the movements making waves in South America's most
radical countries. We are reminded that we in the United State: have much to
learn from our southern sisters and brothers." —Michael Fox, co-director of

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"Ben DangPi Dationg with Dynamite incisively focuses on the relationship
between social movements and governments in South America, providing a
vital contrilanion toward understanding the region's current politic:. While

South American presidents receive much of the credit for the progressive
changes taking place in the region, many of these changes occur largely
through the heroic and courageous efforts of grassroots activists.... Dangl
provides a valuable history and analysis of the largely ignored struggles of
South American social movements in their light for a better world." —Greg
Grandin. author of Empire's Workshop.

The story of the dramatic turn to the left in Latin America over in the past
decade is now wet I known, but 2n equally significant story of divisions luilecen
social movements and electoral politics remains largely untold. Combining
2 broad knowledge of Latin America with direct experiences on the ground,
journalist Ben Dangl examines the tensions that grassroots activists have felt
with the progressive governments they helped put into place. With compel-
ling prose, awing with Dynamite takes us across South America, and then
draws parallels between those movements and similar struggles in the United
States. Along the way, Dangl provide; an even introduction to social move-
ments in Latin America, as well as a probing political analysis of electoral
paths to social justice." —Marc Becker, Truman State University

"Dangl brings complicated politics to life by infusing them with the magic,
ntystery and unbridled joy that invigorate social movements and permeate
Lati n Amerimn l i fe i n genera l. You hear the pinnuling drums and smel l
the sizzling llama meat at Carnival in Bolivia: you feel the steam rising off
Inking bricks at the worker-run ceramics plant in Argentina; you taste the
yerba mate and quiver with the sense of possibility in a cluttered Frente
Amplio meeting mom in Uruguay. It all adds up to the wondmusly explosive
'aria TTT t c' of human passion and determination that has toppled repressive
right-wing regimes and now swirls in the complicated dance Dangl so deftly
describes." —Kari Lyderson. author of Radio,, Goole Nand

"At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the pmorama of Latin
American social movements is very different from what we knew ten or
twenty years ago. Now they navigate in much more tranquil waters than
those agitated by the neoliberal wave. I lowever, these seas arc cloudier, less
transparent, making understanding reality a much more complex task....
/boring with Dynamite dare.; to navigate these cloudy waters,
which increasingly fewer thinkers and activist; dare to do, but which turns
out to be urgent." —Rini Zibechi. author of Dirpersing Power