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Tag: Latin America

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

Nathan J. Robinson

Brazil's Spiritists, and their hero Chico Xavier, redefine religion.

Laura Premack

What to expect from the renewed relations.

Alan West-Duran
Matthew Fishbane

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.

Jessica Sequeira

Immigrant families imprisoned in Artesia, New Mexico, say their due process rights are being violated.

Lauren Carasik

On Leonardo Padura's The Man Who Loved Dogs.

Michelle Chase

Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?

Susanna Bohme

The journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.

Jessica Sequeira

Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

Amy Moran-Thomas

The failure of institutions in São Paulo has paved the way for an ethic of organized crime. 

Graham Denyer Willis
Is there any more hopeful and heartening life story in American poetry than that of Frank Lima?
Nico Alvarado

Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.

Jessica Sequeira

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

Stephen Phelan

Raúl is not the same as his brother, but the democratic movement that Cuba needs still is not coming any time soon.

Samuel Farber

Uruguay’s government may soon be the first in the world to produce and distribute pot.

Michelle García

Ríos Montt—and the United States—evade justice.

Lauren Carasik

Did Pinochet's goons murder Pablo Neruda? There was only one way to find out.

Stephen Phelan

Chileans fight back against privatized higher education.

Lili Loofbourow

Hugo Chávez—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez

Colombia may be entering peace talks, but the changes are not benefiting everyone.

Gimena Sánchez
Electronic voting in Brazil.
F. Daniel Hidalgo
Carlota McAllister

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