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 ...
Argentina: Beyond the ‘High Dollar’
In 1992, Argentine president Carlos Menem launched the convertible peso, fixing the national currency at a one-to-one value with ...
Manipulating Human Rights in Honduras: An Interview With Bertha Oliva
On September 21, Honduran president Porfirio Lobo addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the issue of ...
Freedom Through a Pencil: The 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Maestra, a documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, 33 mins., Spanish and English, with English subtitles, 2011, maestrathefilm.org. ...
