The Brazil Meltdown
Last year, as the Brazilian currency, the real, came under attack from currency speculators, the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso ...
Sea Changes: The New Cuban Economy
Over the course of the 1990s Cuba has dramatically changed its trade, technology and investment partners, modified its institutions of ...
Truth-Telling and Memory in Postwar Guatemala: An Interview with Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and has been a tireless activist for indigenous and ...
Border Patrol Sued for Targeting Latinos
SAN FRANCISCO—On January 12, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two to one that a case alleging civil liberties ...
On Rigoberta, Guerrillas and Academics: An Interview with David Stoll
Steven Dudley: Many critics have said that you are being picky; that if the things Rigoberta describes did not happen ...
The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society
The first time that I heard someone argue about the importance of civil society in Cuba was in 1984, during ...
The Cuban Revolution: Resilience and Uncertainty
There can be little doubt that Fidel Castro's regime has demonstrated a notable and, for many, surprising capacity for survival ...
A Military Populist Takes Venezuela
This past December 8, a retired lieutenant colonel named Hugo Chávez Frías, the leader of a failed military coup in ...
