Disappeared but Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict
On August 31, a tribunal in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, sentenced former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj to 150 years in prison ...
Puerto Rico in Crisis: Government Workers Battle Neoliberal Reform
On October 15 a one-day general strike paralyzed Puerto Ricos political and economic capital of San Juan. About 200,000 demonstrators, ...
Mexico’s Fireworks of 2010
Toward the tail end of 2009, as Mexicans prepared for the Christmas season, three new batches of economic data confirmed ...
Retreat to Colombia: The Pentagon Adapts Its Latin America Strategy
When the U.S. military base in the port city of Manta, Ecuador, formally closed in mid-September, grassroots activists and government ...
Missing Fragments of Memory in Mexicos Dirty War
Tracing Aleida: The Story of a Search (2007), a documentary film by Christiane Burkhard, 88 mins., distributed by Icarus films ...
Evonomics Gets a Second Term in Bolivia
If election results are a measure of public support for a presidents economic policies, then Bolivias Evo Morales got a ...
Security First: The Obama Administration and Immigration Reform
In a November 13 speech to the center for American Progress in Washington, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made ...
Beyond Supply and Demand: Obamas Drug Wars in Latin America
In its first year, the Obama administration has embraced and even extended its predecessors militaristic counter-narcotics policies in the Americas ...
