Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

The Catholic Church and conservative politicians have launched aggressive local and national campaigns for "family values" and sexual abstinence, and ...
SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

The outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s was a turning point for sexual minorities in Latin America, ...
Closing the Door on Undocumented Workers

Closing the Door on Undocumented Workers

The story of the virtual enslavement of dozens of deaf Mexicans in two houses in Queens made national and international ...
Letters

Letters

U.S. AID Lisa Haugaard and the Latin American Working Group (LAWG), along with a host of other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), ...
Anniversary Essay: The Long March of Feminism

Anniversary Essay: The Long March of Feminism

When I lived in Mexico during the 1950s, I used to visit Alaide Foppa de Sol6rzano, who many years later ...
Criminalizing Abortion: A Crime Against Women

Criminalizing Abortion: A Crime Against Women

Women have abortions, whether it is legal or not. The question, then, is not whether we agree or disagree with ...
Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico

Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico

Activist groups have initiated an aggressive cam- paign to repeal Article 103 of the Penal Code, which defines sodomy as ...
Taking Note

Taking Note

Argentina: Has Menemismo Run Its Course? Politics in Argentina have been so thoroughly dominated by the neoliberal economic poli- cies ...