Antonio Gonzalez & Miguel Tinker Salas : Central America
Having concluded that US and IMF/World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
Greg Grandin : World Economy
At the Summit of the Americas, Obama went far toward repairing the damage done by two decades of disastrous economic policy.
Benjamin Dangl
Barack Obama encounters Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for the first time at the Summit of the Americas, and the future of US-Latin America relations takes a new turn.
Greg Grandin : Central America
On nearly every issue that could either relieve the suffering of Latin Americans or help the US to win back allies, domestic politics will hinder Obama's range of action.
Benjamin Dangl : Activism & Organizing
The region's social movements are a useful model for US leftists wanting to influence Obama.
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl : Student Movements
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
Hugo Chávez was re-elected not for his admiration of Castro but for presiding over a robust economy and aggressively improving the lot of Venezuela's poor.
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.
Greg Grandin : Central America
Latin America's new leftist leaders are making deals that threaten US dominance in the region.
Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.
Despite elections now expected this summer, Bolivia remains locked in a political stalemate.
Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.
Ecuador's new president discusses the confidential World Bank agreements that are shackling his nation.
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