Category: Latin-American Affairs

The Chilean Supreme Court’s extradition to Peru of ex-president and dictator Alberto Fujimori could contribute to the consolidation of Peru’s fragile democracy and may […]

April 2008 brings presidential elections for Paraguay. For the first time in 60 years the Red Party may find itself thrown out of the […]

In the course of his visit to the Southern Cone of South America, the American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein spoke on one of his favorite […]

Following almost four decades of struggle for urban land to build their houses, mutual-aid housing cooperatives confront the progressive government of President Tabaré Vázquez, […]

The largest social movement on the continent, and one of the most important in the world, held its 5th Congress in mid-June 2007 in […]

The recent trip by President Hugo Chávez to Russia has been seen as part of the arms race in which the Bolivarian leader is […]

Olhando mais de perto para as condições de trabalho dos cortadores de cana aparece um mundo terrível que deveria fazer refletir aqueles que estão […]

Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition […]

The Mapuche people, history, culture, and struggles have long been blanketed in silence. The few news items from southern Chile are almost always linked […]

The launch of the Bank of the South is an ambitious and strategic gambit in regional integration, one that could result in a truly […]