New Evidence Links Pinochet to Human Rights Abuses

New Evidence Links Pinochet to Human Rights Abuses

SANTIAGO—As hearings began on April 26 into the request to lift former dictator Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity, a new document ...
Globalizing Liberation

Globalizing Liberation

Seattle, Bangkok, Davos, Washington, D.C.: The list of protests against globalization as a project of the major transnational companies and ...
The Two Faces of Hugo Chávez

The Two Faces of Hugo Chávez

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. At dusk, Carlos Andrés Pérez walked off the plane that ...
Polarized Politics in Chávez's Venezuela

Polarized Politics in Chávez’s Venezuela

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. On December 15, 1999, as Venezuelans voted to ratify the ...
Refounding the Republic: The Political Project of Chavismo

Refounding the Republic: The Political Project of Chavismo

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. "The corruption took all the money, so President Chávez has ...
Book Review Essay: Critical Passions: Selected Essays By Jean Franco  Edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman

Book Review Essay: Critical Passions: Selected Essays By Jean Franco Edited by Mary Louise Pratt an...

Cultural criticism is an ambiguous and heterogeneous practice, defiant of disciplinary location and elusive of precise definition. As such, perhaps ...
Hugo Chávez: Venezuela's Redeemer?

Hugo Chávez: Venezuela’s Redeemer?

Hugo Chávez was sworn in as the democratically elected president of Venezuela on February 2, 1999—seven years almost to the ...
Peru's Battle for Democracy

Peru’s Battle for Democracy

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was scheduled to appear at a victory celebration on the evening of May 28, after electoral ...