Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s ...
A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

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 ...
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

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 ...
Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers

Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers

The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile ...
General Coke?

General Coke?

MANUEL "TONY" NORIEGA ROSE TO POW- er at an opportune time in Central America, and Noriega is nothing if not ...
Drugs, Guerrillas and Politicos in Mexico

Drugs, Guerrillas and Politicos in Mexico

Reports of massacres in the Mexican countryside have become alarmingly common in recent years, but a recent incident was among ...