Colombia: The Right Gathers Momentum
In the countdown to the May 26 presidential elections, Colombians are bracing for increasing violence while support grows for independent ...
Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Try to Survive
In the wake of the suspension of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...
Sara Méndez Finds her Son
MONTEVIDEO—More than 20 years of tireless effort finally paid off for Uruguayan Sara Méndez on March 19 when she was ...
Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil
Most of what the world knows as Brazilian culture, and what Brazil projects in international performance, is of African origin ...
Chavismo at the Crossroads: Hardliners, Moderates and a Regime under Attack
On Monday, April 15, the day after his dramatic return to power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for a “national ...
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism
One thing I am clear about is that since I realized, at the age of 13 or 14, that something ...
How the Poor Finance the Rich
The heartiest dishes at the UN Conference on Financing for Development, the high-level get-together held in Monterrey, Mexico this past ...
An Expansion of Citizenship in Venezuela
When Hugo Chávez campaigned for the Venezuelan presidency in 1998, he not only expressed solidarity but claimed kinship with the ...
