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
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
Beginning in mid-2006, news reports in English began appearing about paco, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine ravaging the ...
War and Peace in the Bajo Lempa Region
As part of its efforts to eliminate violence in all of its forms, the Bajo Lempa Coordinating Committee has spearheaded ...
The Children of War: Street Gangs in El Salvador
Edgar Bolaños, also known as Shy Boy, trudges to the edge of a soccer field with his friernd Scrappy a ...
Misguided Development
Five hundred years ago, through the mountains of what today are Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, merchant caravans with hundreds ...
PERU: A Self-Critical Farewell
Historian Alberto Flores Galindo, one of Perus 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
In 1992 and 1993 some five hundred people died in the maze of rivers and thousands of large and small ...
