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 ...
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) ...
Hank Frundt, ¡Presente!
Henry J. Frundt, 70, died of cancer September 16 at his home in Montclair, New Jersey. Hank had been a ...
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 Washington’s current Latin America policy: (1) the war ...
Ecuador’s Popular Revolt: Forging a New Nation
Ecuador was in a festive mood May 1 as tens of thousands rallied in Quito to celebrate International Workers’ Day ...
Pincohet, Arms Merchant
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet at a London hospital on October 17, 1998 — after Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed ...
Why The Dictators Were Necessary
*Bolivia, August 21, 1971: Colonel Hugo Banzer overcomes armed popular resistance to overthrow the nationalist military government of Juan Jose ...
Anniversary Essay: Socialism is Dead; Long Live Socialism
Twentieth century socialism is moribund. In the Americas, socialist-oriented movements were dealt severe blows by the elec- toral defeat of ...
Human Rights…”In the Soul of Our Foreign Policy
When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 U.S. foreign policy clearly bore the stamp of the Nixon-Kissinger years. Its cornerstone ...
Throw Them All Out Argentina’s Grassroots Rebellion
A grassroots rebellion is taking place in Argentina with the common refrain "que se vayan todos," or "throw them all ...
