Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Since 2001, the local manufacture in Cuba of eight antiretroviral drugs has guaranteed access to effective AIDS therapy to all ...
Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

A few months before Myrian Cossio’s 20th birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia’s ...
Learning, Surviving: Marcos After the Rupture

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 ...
Bolivian Women’s Organizations in the MAS Era

Bolivian Women’s Organizations in the MAS Era

Throughout the 1990s, the Bolivian women’s movement was ideologically polarized between a liberal, NGO-based “gender technocracy” and the anarcha-feminism embodied ...
Chilean Feminism and Social Democracy From the Democratic Transition to Bachelet

Chilean Feminism and Social Democracy From the Democratic Transition to Bachelet

The election of Chile’s first female president in January 2006 sparked unprecedented interest in the developments of gender relations and ...
Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration

This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
Bolivian Women’s Organizations in the MAS Era

Bolivian Women’s Organizations in the MAS Era

Throughout the 1990s, the Bolivian women’s movement was ideologically polarized between a liberal, NGO-based “gender technocracy” and the anarcha-feminism embodied ...
Dangerous Liaisons: Latin American Feminists and the Left

Dangerous Liaisons: Latin American Feminists and the Left

Leftist politics has always had a complex relationship with women’s struggles, one that many times translates into political exploitation and ...