Getting Personal: Cuéllar and the ILEA
To the editors: We, the undersigned, write to express serious concerns about the article “Another SOA? A U.S. Police Academy ...
A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America
As the HIV/AIDS pandemic enters its third decade in Latin America, not all the news is bad. Large public investments ...
Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press
If one reads the mainstream U.S. press to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is ...
A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America
In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette ...
Five Years Later: Judging Bush’s AIDS Initiative
In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced his plan to ask Congress for $15 billion to fight the global ...
Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America
In October, Erik Prince, the 39-year-old CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into ...
A New Era for Paraguay
Paraguay finally put an end to 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party, formerly the world’s longest-serving party in ...
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model
Perhaps more than any other modern epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and ...