Introduction: The Politics of Human Rights
In September, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Venezuelan government to allow opposition politician Leopoldo López to run ...
Editor’s Note
Subscribers to the NACLA Report on the Americas cannot have failed to notice that we’ve been delayed recently. Our sincere ...
Venezuela’s Opposition: Back Into the Frying Pan
The Venezuelan opposition faced a difficult question in February, as the country prepared to vote in a national referendum on ...
Cold War Terror in the Americas: A History Lesson
The War on Democracy (DVD, 2007), a film by John Pilger, 94 mins, www.bullfrogfilms.com Perhaps the most poignant moment in ...
Youth Media: Building Solidarity
Dozens upon dozens of young people lie sprawled across the floor of the Caracas airport. Despite the fluorescent glare, most ...
The Devil Behind the Mirror by Stephen Gregory
THE DEVIL BEHIND THE MIRROR: GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC by Stephen Gregory, 2006, University of California Press, ...
There’s No Jose Here, by Gabriel Thompson
THERE'S NO JOSE HERE: FOLLOWING THE HIDDEN LIVES OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS by Gabriel Thompson, 2007, Nation, 320 pages, $14.95 paperback ...
Guns: The Small Arms Trade in the Americas
Gun violence has plagued Latin America since the early days of the colonial era. In June, archaeologists excavating an old ...
Colombia and Brazil: Deadly Diversions
Pinochet may have reached the apex of corrupt government arms trafficking in Latin America, but he was by no means ...
Colonial Capitalism: Crisis and Response in Puerto Rico
Since 1901, when the first duties between puerto Rico and the United States were abolished, the island’s economy has served ...
Latinos and the “Other Race” Option: Transforming U.S. Concepts of Race. Featuring “Stories of Self-...
Lurking in the shadows of the news media’s early coverage of the 2000 census numbers was a challenge to the ...
Strange Bedfellows Against U.S. Policy
The world of lobbying against U.S. policy toward Cuba offers an instructive lesson in the ironies and vagaries of coalition ...
