JoAnn Kawell

In Latin the word scientia means "knowledge––and our word "science" means, at base, "systems of knowledge" and "ways we come ...

This NACLA Report focuses on privatization—the conversion of public entities into privately-owned, profit-oriented businesses. As Bea Edwards details in her ...

In the Americas, the production and sale of illicit drugs generates tens of billions of dollars a year—perhaps far more ...

What—according to U.S. officials—is the face of terrorism in Latin America? What role is Latin America likely to play in ...

In this issue’s Open Forum [“Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web,” see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la ...

Whither the U.S.-funded war in Colombia? In late July, a Senate committee cut $164 million from the Bush Administration’s $731 ...

In this NACLA Report we look closely at two nations—Colombia and Brazil—that seem to be on very different trajectories as ...

Among the forms of knowledge—sciences—developed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans were sophisticated agricultural systems. The Incas, ...

Mexico is, according to the U.S. State Department, “a major supplier of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana” for the U.S. market ...

In this issue’s Open Forum [“Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web,” see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la ...

On April 14, María Elena Foronda was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize, one of six given each year to grassroots ...

On January 2, Gilberto Gil was sworn in as Brazil’s culture minister. For many people in the United States, the ...