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Global OrganizationsDecember 29, 2010
Dilma Rousseff: In Lula’s Shadow
The first female president of Brazil will likely build on her predecessor’s legacy.
Benjamin Dangl
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Regions and CountriesDecember 16, 2009
Bolivia’s Next Steps
Following an overwhelming re-election victory, President Evo Morales intends to “accelerate the process of change.”
Benjamin Dangl
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Regions and CountriesApril 17, 2009
Obama Set for a Summit in the Sun
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.
Benjamin Dangl
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PoliticsMarch 5, 2009
Lessons From Latin America
The region’s social movements are a useful model for US leftists wanting to influence Obama.
Benjamin Dangl
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ActivismMay 3, 2008
Vermont Students Join May 1 War Protests
As West Coast dockworkers stopped work at twenty-nine ports on May Day, students in Vermont took antiwar protests to the offices of a General Dynamics plant.
Benjamin Dangl
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Regions and CountriesMarch 29, 2007
Bolivia’s Dance with Evo Morales
More than a year into President Evo Morales’s first term, Bolivia remains in a labyrinth, somewhere between reform, revolution and national crisis.
Benjamin Dangl and April Howard
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Regions and CountriesJuly 12, 2006
The US Military Descends on Paraguay
The US “war on terror” now extends to an unlikely frontier in Paraguay, where farmers are caught in the crossfire and human rights groups are skeptical of the threat posed by Islamic terrorists.
Benjamin Dangl