Empire, Hegemony and Globalization in the Americas
Talk of empire is back in vogue. Despite repeated reassurances from Donald Rumsfeld (“We’re not imperialistic. We never have been.”) ...
Empire and Dissent
Talk of U.S. imperialism, long marginalized in this country as the rhetorical language of the “old left,” has made a ...
Cuba and Venezuela in Debate
Teo Ballvé’s essay “Is Venezuela the New Cuba?” [July/August] is one more musing from the “left” that seeks to denigrate ...
Venezuela: Defying Globalization’s Logic
The continued ability of president Hugo Chávez to carry out significant reforms in the face of U.S. hostility and an ...
Cuba: New Partners and Old Limits
The world has changed considerably since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Unlike 1959, the world is now characterized by ...
Inclusion Through Autonomy: Zapatistas and Dissent
The Zapatista movement is probably one of the best-known examples of dissent against the neoliberal model of economic globalization. On ...
The Emerging “Threat” of Radical Populism
At a house armed services committee meeting in March 2004, the then-commander of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), Gen. James ...
¡Bolivia de pie!
By most accounts, the opening salvo in Bolivia’s ongoing revolutionary cycle occurred in 2000.1 Mothers, unionists, campesinos, students, in fact, ...
