Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua

Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua

2000: I return to Nicaragua after being away for two years to find the capital city transformed with a new ...
War and Peace in the Bajo Lempa Region

War and Peace in the Bajo Lempa Region

As part of its efforts to eliminate violence in all of its forms, the Bajo Lempa Coordinating Committee has spearheaded ...
Homeless Movement Gains Ground

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 ...
An Anatomy of Violence in El Salvador

An Anatomy of Violence in El Salvador

El Salvador, geographically the smallest and most densely populated nation in Latin America, is often described as one of the ...
Afro Reggae

Afro Reggae

If Brazil’s pulse were audible, it would be a drumbeat. Undoubtedly, music breathes life into so many hallmarks of the ...
Plan Petroleum in Putumayo

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 ...
The Odyssey of Salvadoran Asylum Seekers

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 ...
El Salvador: ARENA Wins Elections

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 ...