Coercion Incorporated: Paramilitary Colombia
In May, the Colombian senate began deliberations on a draft law that would grant pardons to former paramilitaries, including those ...
The Oil Palm Industry: A Blight on Afro-Colombia
In the hamlet of Imbirí la Loma in Colombia’s southwestern department of Nariño, Yaneth Sosa and her family once struggled ...
Hyping the New Media Buzzword: ‘Spillover’ on the Border
On March 25, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 rolled into El Paso to report on Mexican drug-cartel violence. Cooper was one ...
The FMLN Victory and Transnational Salvadoran Activism: Lessons for the Future
The inauguration on June 1 of El Salvador’s new president, Mauricio Funes, followed a historic election in March, in which ...
After Sweatshops? Apparel Politics in the Circum-Caribbean
Throughout the spring of 2007, women and men made almost ritual rounds looking for jobs at fewer and fewer garment ...
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Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973–2001, by Klaus F. Veigel, Penn State University Press, 2009, ...
The Venezuelan Coup Revisited: Silencing the Evidence
The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Brian A. Nelson, Nation ...
Colombia and Ecuador: A Clash of Two Plans
Arriving in Quito after a direct flight from Bogotá, one easily realizes that the “brotherhood of nations” rhetoric traditionally used ...
