
Elections in Venezuela and Chile Advance Left Agenda and Latin American Economic Integration
In late November, it appeared the right in Latin America might be taking the initiative, but the elections in Venezuela ...

The Other September 11: The Legacy of Chilean Socialism and Salvador Allende
The coup d'etat by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile on September 11, 1973 transformed the history of socialism. Almost a ...

A Cuban Spring?
This is a fruitful period of experimentation and debate in Cuba. It is now almost seven years since Raúl Castro ...

A Cuban Spring?
This is a fruitful period of experimentation and debate in Cuba. It is now almost seven years since Raúl ...

The Historic Strategies of the Latin American Left
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, Verso, 2011, 180 pp., $26.95 (hardback) ...

The Global Revolt and Latin America
Along with the Arab Spring, the indignados movement of Spain, and Occupy Wall Street, Latin America also played a role ...

Hank Frundt, ¡Presente!
Henry J. Frundt, 70, died of cancer September 16 at his home in Montclair, New Jersey. Hank had been a ...

Update: Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia
When Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, was sworn in to a second term in January, he proclaimed Bolivia a plurinational state ...

Ecuador’s President Correa Faces Off With Indigenous and Social Movements
Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa confronts a major challenge from some of the very social ...

Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed
Daniel Ortega's presidency, the "second stage of the Sandinista Revolution," as he called it, has been characterized by sectarianism, authoritarianism, ...

Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed
Upon his inauguration as Nicaraguan president in January 2007, Daniel Ortega asserted that his government would represent the second stage ...

Treating Bolivia as a Sovereign Partner
A progressive U.S. policy toward bolivia must confront three major thrusts of Washingtons current Latin America policy: (1) the war ...