Defending Democracy? Human Rights Discourse in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Human rights discourses have made a powerful comeback in Latin America. Although they emerged out of the resistance to ...
Legitimacy Lost: Human Rights Discourse in Washington
In a frenzy to realign right-wing forces and pressure President Obama to protect human rights and security in Latin ...
A New Indigenous-Left in Ecuador?
On August 9, about 400 delegates from Ecuadors many social movements joined most of the countrys left-wing parties for ...
A Mining Ban in El Salvador?
Will tiny El Salvador, where two thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day, become the ...
How Venezuela’s Right Discovered Human Rights
On January 31, 13 Venezuelan students of the opposition student group United Active Youth of Venezuela (JAVU) launched a ...
Introduction: The Politics of Human Rights
In September, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Venezuelan government to allow opposition politician Leopoldo López to run ...
The Border: Funneling Migrants to Their Doom
During the three years that I traveled with undocumented migrants who pass through Mexico as stowaways aboard cargo trains, I ...
Heroines With Friends in High Places: Cuba’s Damas de Blanco
In March, the Cuban government released the last of 75 prisoners arrested in spring 2003 for acting as U.S. agents ...
