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 ...
Mexicos Fireworks of 2010
Toward the tail end of 2009, as Mexicans prepared for the Christmas season, three new batches of economic data confirmed ...
Tourism, U.S. Empire, and National Projects in Latin America
Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America by Dennis Merrill, University of North Carolina Press (2009), 352 ...
Missing Fragments of Memory in Mexico’s Dirty War
Tracing Aleida: The Story of a Search (2007), a documentary film by Christiane Burkhard, 88 mins., distributed by Icarus films ...
Dropping Dobbs: A Victory for Media Activism, and the Challenge Ahead
After years of criticism and months of campaigning by media activists, Lou Dobbs finally made his exit from CNN. On ...
Same Difference: Obama’s Militarized Status Quo
Candidate Obama was upfront about his positions on Latin America. He said pointblank that he would maintain the embargo on ...
