Latin America

Exhuming Neruda

How did Chile’s great poet die?

  • Stephen Phelan

“No to Profit”

Chileans fight back against privatized higher education.

  • Lili Loofbourow

The Little that Hugo Chávez Got Right

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

  • Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez

Left Behind

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

  • Gimena Sánchez

Troublemakers

Rural Chileans Fight to Keep Dams out of Patagonia

  • Carlota McAllister

Making Every Vote Count

Electronic voting in Brazil.

  • F. Daniel Hidalgo

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Our Men in Honduras

Losing Control of the War on Drugs

  • Lauren Carasik

Citizen Philosophers

Teaching philosophy in Brazil is a political project.

  • Carlos Fraenkel

Vanishing Point

Few people have heard of Baird’s tapir, and fewer still know anything about them.

  • Niall McCann

The Miners

Kept underground in Evin Prison. 

  • Sara Irani

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

  • Luis Fernando Medina

Microreview: Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs

Re-imagining the poet as detective and philosopher in one. 

  • Mara Pastor

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

Brazil’s Dreamer

The disenchantment and re-enchantment of Chico Buarque.

  • Scott Saul

Trading Up

Are Latin American populists creating something new that might temper or replace market mechanisms?

  • Michael J. Piore
  • Andrew Schrank

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Is Bush’s nightmare Venezuela’s salvation?

  • Greg Grandin

Memory Place

Argentina’s campaign against the past

  • Marc B. Haefele

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Secret Histories

Creating a Colombian national identity through crime fiction.

  • Santiago Gamboa

A Descamisada Diva

Four decades after her death, Eva Perón remains a powerful symbol of Argentina’s profound cultural and political divisions.

  • Michael Greenberg

Democracy or Neoliberalism?

  • Atilio Boron
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