Chavismo at the Crossroads: Hardliners, Moderates and a Regime under Attack
On Monday, April 15, the day after his dramatic return to power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for a “national ...
Sara Méndez Finds her Son
MONTEVIDEO—More than 20 years of tireless effort finally paid off for Uruguayan Sara Méndez on March 19 when she was ...
Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Try to Survive
In the wake of the suspension of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...
Book Review Essay: Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
“Why are you importing a U.S. problem into our society? We are not black, or white, or Indian. We are ...
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism
One thing I am clear about is that since I realized, at the age of 13 or 14, that something ...
An Expansion of Citizenship in Venezuela
When Hugo Chávez campaigned for the Venezuelan presidency in 1998, he not only expressed solidarity but claimed kinship with the ...
Nueva York – Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond
Back in 1999, New York magazine was renamed Nueva York, at least for the week of September 6. The Spanish ...
