Case Studies — Latin America

The Movements.org case study series identifies and evaluates campaigns that have harnessed technology for social change in their communities or that have demonstrated degree of success that others could learn from. Think you or someone you know should be featured?! Share your work here.

Zapatista Army of National Liberalization

Posted by Josie Baum in Build Awareness , Latin America

The Zapatista movement empowered a marginalized community by harnessing the earliest forms of online tools to bring their cause
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Oscar Morales and One Million Voices Against FARC

Posted by Brannon Cullum in Build Awareness , Latin America, Social Networking, Facebook

Colombian Oscar Morales created a Facebook group against FARC that led to an international protest movement.
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#InternetNecesario

Posted in Blogging, Microblogging, Free, Moderately Wired, Email, Latin America, Social Networking, Twitter

A Twitter campaign organized using hashtags and repealed an unpopular law that would have taxed internet users.
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El Chiguirre Bipolar

Posted in Blogging, Moderately Wired, Partly Free, Latin America, Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, Online Video

Despite encroaching censorship, a satirical political blog gains a huge hollowing in Venezuela.
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Engaging Youth with Politics in Venezuela

Posted by Susannah Vila in Build Awareness , Civic Engagement, Plan and Strategize, Document Information, Election Monitoring, Latin America, Mobilize

What tactics worked for youth activists in Venezuela trying to get their peers involved ahead of 2010's parliamentary elections?
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Cuidemos el Voto

Posted by Oscar Salazar and Susannah Vila in Free, Civic Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Moderately Wired, Document Information, Election Monitoring, Latin America, Social Networking, Twitter, Ushahidi

How clean are elections in Mexico? A team of activists and technologists decided to find out for themselves.
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Viva Favela

Posted by Rodrigo Noguiera and Susannah Vila in Free, Citizen Media, Moderately Wired, Latin America, Online Video

Open-source tools, inexpensive cameras and Web training to produce citizen media from Brazil
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