Mixed Blessing
Tom Hayden : Central America
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
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A Garden of Monsters
Carmen Boullosa : Fiction
The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.
2007
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Latin America's Shock Resistance
Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism.
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Reading Arendt in Caracas
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl : Student Movements
A student movement influenced by Hannah Arendt is emerging in Venezuela. What do they think of the Bolivarian Revolution?
2006
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Latin Left Turn
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.
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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
Greg Grandin : Central America
Latin America's new leftist leaders are making deals that threaten US dominance in the region.
2005
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The Threat of Hope in Latin America
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.
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Bolivia's Battle of Wills
Despite elections now expected this summer, Bolivia remains locked in a political stalemate.
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Tear Gas in the Andes
Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.
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Ecuador Gets Chávez'd
Ecuador's new president discusses the confidential World Bank agreements that are shackling his nation.
2002
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Letter From Pôrto Alegre
Marc Cooper : Social & Economic Rights
Read daily dispatches from the World Social Forum in Brazil.
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