Against Forgetting in Guatemala
Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate ...
Cuba Disconnect
In “Cuba: New Partners and Old Limits” [September/October 2005, “Empire and Dissent”] Daniela Spenser calls for Cuba to devolve into ...
International Zapatismo: A book by Thomas Oleson
International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization by Thomas Olesen, 2005. Zed Books, 256 pages, $27.50 ...
Drug Companies’ Walking Test-Tubes
Just as automakers and apparel manufacturers have fled the stringent labor and environmental laws of developed countries to set up ...
Future Markets in Biology: Life After Bioprospecting
More than a decade ago, the authors of the once-groundbreaking book Biodiversity Prospecting argued that lifesaving drugs from genetic and ...
Argentina: Government Pays Back IMF Debt
On January 3, after years of an openly hostile relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Argentina cleared its entire ...
Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Human Organs
Stephen Frears’ film Dirty Pretty Things treats the traffic in human frailty and vulnerability in the shadowy underworld of immigrant ...
Diary of a Massacre
The following account is based on a series of diary entries, interviews and personal recollections about the events of February ...
