
Taking Note
A Few Changes in the Magazine here are a few present and pending changes we would like to bring to ...

Haiti in the Mainstream Press: Excesses and Omissions
At a demonstration last October against New York Times coverage of Haiti, Haitian protesters accused the newspaper of being "the ...

Peru’s Dispossessed Look Homeward
Two years ago, a violent attack on the Ayacuchan village of Nuñunhuaycco-Patahuasi by the fundamentalist Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero ...

Women and Democracy: For Home and Country
When the democratic government took over, the men around here said, Its okay, Rosa, you can leave it to ...

An Interview with Ben Dupuy, Aristide’s Ambassador-at-Large
Ben Dupuy is one of Haiti's foremost radical journalists. In 1984 he founded the Committee Against Repression in Haiti ...

Chicana Artists: Exploring nepantla, el lugar de la frontera
I stop before the dismembered body of la diosa de la luna, Coyolxauhqui, daughter of Coatlicue. The warrior goddess' ...

Latin American Women The Gendering of Politics and Culture
It is still a commonplace in Latin America that women's place is the private sphere of home and family, ...

In Her Own Words: Interviews with Nicaraguan Women
Last year, writer and activist Margaret Randall returned to Nicaragua to talk to women about their participation in the ...