A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette ...
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

Perhaps more than any other modern epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and ...
Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina

Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina

Beginning in mid-2006, news reports in English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine ravaging the ...
PERU: A Self-Critical Farewell

PERU: A Self-Critical Farewell

Historian Alberto Flores Galindo, one of Peru’s most gifted left intellectuals, died of cancer in March of last year at ...
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Race and Public Health in Venezuela

Stories in the Time of Cholera: Race and Public Health in Venezuela

In 1992 and 1993 some five hundred people died in the maze of rivers and thousands of large and small ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Beacon of Despair

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Beacon of Despair

In the eastern urban sprawl of Santo Domingo, a vast concrete cross-shaped structure is rising steadily into the capi- tal's ...
An Interview with Subcomandante Marcos

An Interview with Subcomandante Marcos

Since the January 1st uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), Subcomandante Marcos-the guerrilla force's most visible leader-has emerged ...
The Failing of the International Financial Architecture

The Failing of the International Financial Architecture

The extraordinary rise of global finance has been the single most outstanding economic development in the last quarter of this ...