Daniel Wilkinson covers Latin America for Human Rights Watch. His book Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala (Houghton Mifflin) received the 2003 PEN/Albrand Award.
Is Venezuela's president undoing his country's experiment in democracy?
If you found George W. Bush's 2000 victory in Florida difficult to stomach, imagine being on the losing side of Mexico's 1988 presidential election.


