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 Rico’s 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 ...
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 ...
New & Noteworthy
Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances, by Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Duke University Press (2008), 272 pp., $23.95 (paperback) ...
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 ...
