The Legacy of Hugo Chávez One Year After His Death (Audio)

The Legacy of Hugo Chávez One Year After His Death (Audio)

A week before the one-year anniversary of Chávez's death, panelists Mark Weisbrot, Dan Kovalik, Julio Escalona, and James Early discuss ...
Venezuelan Barrio Organization Calls for Peace to Deepen the Revolution

Venezuelan Barrio Organization Calls for Peace to Deepen the Revolution

With few exceptions, most international media coverage of the recent protests in Venezuela gives little sense of the response from ...
Chavismo After Chávez: What Was Created? What Remains?

Chavismo After Chávez: What Was Created? What Remains?

In December, the Méndez Reyes family became the latest in a series of political asylum cases in Montreal that have ...
The Climate Debt: Who Profits, Who Pays?

The Climate Debt: Who Profits, Who Pays?

On February 4, 1992, when Hugo Chávez launched his failed military rebellion to topple the government of President Carlos Andrés ...
Democratizing the Media: An Interview with Carlos Ciappina

Democratizing the Media: An Interview with Carlos Ciappina

Carlos Ciappina is the Secretary of the School for Journalism and Social Communication at the National University of La Plata, ...
Latin America and the Global Economy

Latin America and the Global Economy

  On April 23, roughly 100,000 people descended on Bogotá, Colombia, to participate in what organizers called the Patriotic March ...
ARGENTINA: The Protracted Struggle

ARGENTINA: The Protracted Struggle

Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA, by Ronald L. Mize and Alicia C.S. Swords, University of Toronto ...
Special Issue: Nixon & The Election

Special Issue: Nixon & The Election

Tierras Libres: Venezuela’s War in the Countryside, a documentary film by Edward Ellis (Cooperativa Primeras Voces), 2011, 70 mins.   ...
Ecuador: Oil Up for Grabs

Ecuador: Oil Up for Grabs

After the triumph of Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the country established a state socialist regime based on the Soviet model. This ...
Exclusive: A.I.D. Police Programs for Latin America 1971-72

Exclusive: A.I.D. Police Programs for Latin America 1971-72

In November 2010, the United Nations eliminated protections from extrajudicial or arbitrary executions because of sexual orientation. With the support ...
Women's Labor, Also Women In Chile

Women’s Labor, Also Women In Chile

It is 7 a.m. and Gabriela, a 43-year-old Afro-Cuban woman, is anxiously waiting for Camilo, a local street vendor, to ...
Brazil The Continental Strategy

Brazil The Continental Strategy

The “social purpose” of the economy, as it is called, is a pillar of the socialist model of socio-political organization ...