Chavez and Democracy in Venezuela
The ongoing deliberations of an elected Assembly charged with rewriting Venezuela's Constitution (see "Venezuelans Give Chávez Control of Constituent Assembly," ...
Surviving Mitch
The survivors of last October's devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua have lived through a double hurricane: a four-day meteorological event ...
A Community Response in El Salvador
The wind moved suddenly, shaking the branches of the mango trees. Just a few days before, a wave of humidity—different ...
World Bank Takes Aim at Brazil’s Landless Movement
This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a ...
Post-Mitch Central America: The U.S. Response
Though the mainstream U. S. media stopped reporting the devastation left by Hurricane Mitch a few weeks after the storm ...
U.S. Deepens Involvement in Colombia’s Internal War
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On July 23, a U.S. military surveillance plane crashed in Colombia with five U.S. soldiers and two Colombians aboard, ...
Nicaragua’s Structural Hurricane
A hurricane or natural disaster hits two equally populated territories with the same force. Why is it that the human ...
Strange Bedfellows: The Aleman-Ortega Pact
Consensus politics has a bad name in Nicaragua—that is, where "consensus" means divvying up the spoils of government. The Somozas ...
