April Howard is a teacher and a journalist.
Benjamin Dangl is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, AK Press, 2007. Both are editors at UpsideDownWorld.org, a Latin American news Web site.
Benjamin Dangl is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, AK Press, 2007. Both are editors at UpsideDownWorld.org, a Latin American news Web site.

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April Howard and Benjamin Dangl
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