The Pinochet File
We all have different ways of taking notes on books we read. As a historian, I’ve used the same technique ...
Plan Petroleum in Putumayo
In December 2000, U.S.-trained counternarcotics battalions, U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopters and U.S.-piloted spray planes descended on Putumayo department to conduct Plan ...
Homeless Movement Gains Ground
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most dynamic mass movements. In the ...
El Salvador: ARENA Wins Elections
On March 22, after a bitterly contested presidential campaign that tapped into Salvadorans’ memories of the civil war, Tony Saca ...
Tracking the Economy: What’s a Living Wage?
The Purchasing Power Index (PPI) is a tool for assessing both the purchasing power earned by workers within a particular ...
The Odyssey of Salvadoran Asylum Seekers
Irma Martínez and her family were elated when they learned that, in 1997, the U.S. Congress had passed a law ...
Afro Reggae
If Brazil’s pulse were audible, it would be a drumbeat. Undoubtedly, music breathes life into so many hallmarks of the ...
