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 ...
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
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 extraordinary rise of global finance has been the single most outstanding economic development in the last quarter of this ...
A Drought Ravages Northeast Brazil
The last drop of rain fell on the rural community of Juarzerinho, in Brazils Northeast state of Paraíba on November ...
Haiti’s Children Pay the Price of Poverty
After 200 years of bees, lets have 200 years of honey. So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government ...
