The Pinochet File
We all have different ways of taking notes on books we read. As a historian, I’ve used the same technique ...
The Deportation Machine (Review)
Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
Rethinking Cuban Socialism in the New Times of Crisis
“Cuban Perspectives on Cuban Socialism,” Socialism and Democracy 24, no. 1 (March 2010), 181 pp., $15, sdonline.org ...
Beyond Latin America’s ‘Two Lefts’
Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left by Nikolas Kozloff, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 256 pp., $26.95, Hardcover ...
The Take, A film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
The film tells the story of what it calls “the largest sovereign debt default in history” through Freddy Espinosa, a ...
Book Review Essay: Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995
The Communist Party of Peru, otherwise known as Shining Path, launched its "popular revolutionary war" in 1980, giving rise to ...
The New Socialism
It’s somehow appropriate that this new analysis of Latin America’s “Pink Tide” should emerge at this critical historical juncture marked ...