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
As part of its efforts to eliminate violence in all of its forms, the Bajo Lempa Coordinating Committee has spearheaded ...
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
El Salvador, geographically the smallest and most densely populated nation in Latin America, is often described as one of the ...
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
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
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
On March 22, after a bitterly contested presidential campaign that tapped into Salvadorans’ memories of the civil war, Tony Saca ...