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 "knowledgeand 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 Oaxacas 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 Gaudins 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 ...
For an Agriculture that Doesnt Get Rid of Farmers: An Interview with Miguel Altieri
Among the forms of knowledgesciencesdeveloped in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were sophisticated agricultural systems. The Incas, ...
Thirteen Days that Shook ArgentinaAnd Now What?
December 2001 marked a turning point for Argentina. First the government did violence to society by putting strict limits on ...
