The University of Puerto Rico: A Testing Ground for the Neoliberal State
On March 10, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) executive director Anthony Romero issued an open letter to the Civil Rights ...
New & Noteworthy
Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy, edited by Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam, Zed Books, 2009, 263 pp., ...
Obama in Latin America: More of the Same
The day before President Barack Obama arrived in San Salvador on March 21, thousands of union members and campesinos marched ...
After Lula: The Brazilian Workers’ Party in Transition
The day before the first round of the 2010 elections, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took his likely successor, ...
Dilma as Lula’s Successor: The First 100 Days
The first 100 days may or may not be representative of a government. For the first time Brazil has a ...
Lula and the Meaning of Agrarian Reform
Until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victorious 2002 campaign for president, Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) had consistently supported a radical ...
Editor’s Note
Subscribers to the NACLA Report on the Americas cannot have failed to notice that we’ve been delayed recently. Our sincere ...
The Chevron-Texaco Judgment: A Triumph of Humanity
Civilization doesn’t eliminate barbarity, it perfects it. —Voltaire The most anticipated court decision in the last 17 years has ...