Washington and the Caudillos: Calculation and Miscalculation in Managua
As foreign reporters descended upon Managua during the runup to last fall’s presidential election between Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...
Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace Accords
Colombia has been wracked by civil war for 37 years and today the nation is at a crossroads: Either it ...
Retiring on the Free Market: Chile’s Privatized Social Security
In the fall of 2000, a theater in Santiago’s Bellavista district featured the play Con Flores Amarillas, the story of ...
“Which side are you on?”: New takes on an old query
In this issue’s Open Forum [“Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web,” see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la ...
Post Cold War Latin America In the Eagle’s Shadow
In this Report, the third in a series of three that examine U.S.-Latin American relations after the Cold War, we ...
Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web
Men and women dressed in stripes, with numbers on their chests; young people, old people, some yelling slogans about the ...
Cleaning Up After Fujimori: Peruvian Panel Probes “Economic Crimes” Linked to Privatization
Peruvians are just beginning to untangle the web of high-level corruption woven during Alberto Fujimori’s presidency. Fujimori was first elected ...
Brazil’s New Old Order
Secret Brazilian military documents recently discovered in the southern state of Pará have confirmed that military intelligence services continue to ...
