Glaciers Under Threat by Mining in Chile
Chile’s lush Huasco Valley is flanked by bone-dry hills that reach up towards the towering ridges of the Andes. Some ...
Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil
Most of what the world knows as Brazilian culture, and what Brazil projects in international performance, is of African origin ...
Ecuador: Oil Strike in the Amazon
A major strike in ecuador’s main oil-producing provinces in August dealt a heavy blow to multinational oil corporations operating in ...
Music and the Formation of Black Identity in Colombia
During my fieldwork in Colombia, I found that music and dance were important to understanding patterns of racism and racial ...
Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America
The horrors of Guatemala’s “silent holocaust” are meticulously recorded and portrayed in this searing book. From the CIA-backed coup of ...
How the Poor Finance the Rich
The heartiest dishes at the UN Conference on Financing for Development, the high-level get-together held in Monterrey, Mexico this past ...
Listening to América
Latin America seems eerily calm lately. “Calm,” of course, is a relative term in this place of endlessly dramatic and ...
Venezuela: Washington Suffers a Setback
“We have been concerned with some of the actions of Venezuelan President Chávez and his understanding of what a democratic ...
