Mixed Blessing
Tom Hayden : South America
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
2006
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Media Assault on Latin America
Jonathan Cook : Media Analysis
US media coverage of the rise of the Latin American left is an echo of the Bush Administration's simplistic, knee-jerk rhetoric.
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Latin America's New Consensus
Latin America's new leftist leaders are making deals that threaten US dominance in the region.
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CAFTA's Corpse Revived
CAFTA, once presumed dead, is alive and functioning, thanks to White House political sorcery. But a backlash is looming in the United States and abroad.
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The Master of Modernismo
Roberto González Echevarría : Poetry
Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, all but unknown in English-speaking countries, had a global impact on literature, ushering Spanish poetry into the modern era.
2005
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Communities Without Borders
David Bacon : Labor & Immigration
Guest worker programs are a threat to the communities Central American migrants forge as they sweep across the US. These programs undermine the economic rights of immigrants and natives alike.
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Letter From El Salvador
El Salvador today is an Exhibit A casualty of the American imperium.
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