Colombia’s Magic Laptops
In September, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it was designating one former and ...
Learning, Surviving: Marcos After the Rupture
Last summer, reading a news article about the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, organized by the Zapatista ...
In Tegucigalpa, the Iron Fist Fails
With the rise of zero tolerance, or mano dura (“iron fist”), policing in Honduras, the capital city has experienced a ...
Guns: The U.S. Threat to Mexican National Security
Shipping powders back and forth Black goes south and white comes north. — “Throwing Stones,” John Perry Barlow for the ...
Disarming Brazil: Lessons and Challenges
In the film Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore set up the audience to be shocked by statistics of gun deaths ...
The Small Arms Trade in Latin America
Small arms and gun violence present the most dramatic threat to public safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. After ...
A Rare Happy Ending: Piñones Versus the Developers
As tourism continues to grow into one of the most profitable sectors of Puerto Rico’s economy, many small communities have ...
IMMIGRATION INS Ups the Ante
"The U.S.-Mexican border has be- come a hot spot for armed political unrest and violent drug trafficking. Because of the ...
