Thirteen Days that Shook Argentina––And Now What?
December 2001 marked a turning point for Argentina. First the government did violence to society by putting strict limits on ...
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Race and Public Health in Venezuela
In 1992 and 1993 some five hundred people died in the maze of rivers and thousands of large and small ...
Who Owns Knowledge?
In Latin the word scientia means "knowledge––and our word "science" means, at base, "systems of knowledge" and "ways we come ...
Plan Puebla Panama
The British came to southern Mexico nearly a century ago to build the railroad that slices across Oaxaca’s Tehuantepec Isthmus ...
Bio “Gold” Rush in Chiapas on Hold
The road from the airport at Tuxtla Gutiérrez to San Cristóbal in Chiapas, Mexico wends its way from balmy tropics ...
The Argentine Conundrum
The subtitle of Andrés Gaudin’s report from Argentina ["Thirteen Days that Shook Argentina," p. 6] fairly shouts at us: "And ...
Latin America Science: The Long View
Until recently, Latin American science has been dismissed as the underdeveloped and dependent poor cousin of science in the developed ...
Solidarity in Cyberspace: Indigenous Peoples Online
"A future with traditions," was the slogan the indigenous movement popularized during the 1992 Quincentennial, the 500th anniversary of Europe’s ...
