Colombia’s Magic Laptops
In September, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it was designating one former and ...
Elections in Mexico: What’s the Use?
Mexico’s much vaunted “transition to democracy” is conventionally thought to have taken place in the period bounded by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’s ...
The New Latin American Right: Finding a Place in the World
The triumph of the neoliberal Washington Consensus in Latin America has had a contradictory effect: It has increased the profits ...
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 ...
Terror and the Press
On May 25, Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya was kidnapped, beaten and raped. She was my co-worker at the Bogotá daily, ...
The Globalization of Latin American Media
Although Latin American media are distinctively “Latin” in their contents, exemplified by the characteristic telenovela, they are very North “American” ...
U.S. Invasion: Grenada Disappeared
One of the lingering mysteries of the U.S. invasion of Grenada is how the Reagan Administration gener- ated such wide ...
The Making of Piquetero Television
Argentina’s alternative media have commonly limited their role in the social movements to informing the public about corporate media’s misinformation ...
