Cuba’s Generation Gap
Cuba has been in the news almost constantly this year, as foreign observers have scrutinized the recent round of reforms, ...
Power Struggle: Chileans Face Off on Hydroelectric Dams
A startlingly cold storm pushed its way across central Chile last February, blanketing the Andes in snow and reminding Santiago’s ...
A Hunger Striker Becomes Chile’s Conscience
On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger strike ...
The Diaspora Factor: Stateside Boricuas and the Future of Puerto Rico
The debate over the future political status of Puerto Rico has appeared once again in the U.S. Congress, raising the ...
New Challenges for Radical Social Movements
“There were no social classes that day,” says Jorge Jara, recounting the protests of December 20, 2001. “You’d look, and ...
Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the North
In early October last year, over a thousand marchers left Dupont Circle and proceeded up Connecticut Avenue to the Washington ...
Throw Them All Out Argentina’s Grassroots Rebellion
A grassroots rebellion is taking place in Argentina with the common refrain "que se vayan todos," or "throw them all ...
Selling the Public Sector: Latin America reacts; El Salvador: Who Will Have the Hospitals?
In El Salvador, efforts to put the public health system into private hands have provoked a wave of opposition: Last ...
