The New York Times’ on NAFTA and CAFTA: No Alternative
Margaret Thatcher once admonished her critics with the assertion that, like it or not, “there is no alternative” to free ...
New vs. Old Right in Paraguay’s Election
Now that much of Latin America has shifted to the left, Paraguay remains a key Washington ally. The country’s political ...
Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers
The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile ...
The New Latin American Right: Finding a Place in the World
The triumph of the neoliberal Washington Consensus in Latin America has had a contradictory effect: It has increased the profits ...
By Means Legal and Otherwise: The Bolivian Right Regroups
Two years into Evo Morales’s tenure as president of Bolivia, he and his party, the MAS, face difficult challenges. In ...
Building the City of God: Mexico’s Ultra-Right Yunque
When Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) assumed the presidency of Mexico in 2000 after running as “the ...
Defending Food Sovereignty
La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants by Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Fernwood Publishing and Pluto Press (distributed by ...
Quilombo Lives, Quilombo Dreams
Quilombo Country: Afrobrazilian Villages in the 21st Century (DVD, 2006, 73 minutes), directed by Leonard Abrams, Quilombo Films (www.quilombofilm.com) Although ...
