Getting Personal: Cuéllar and the ILEA

Getting Personal: Cuéllar and the ILEA

To the editors: We, the undersigned, write to express serious concerns about the article “Another­ SOA? A U.S. Police Academy
A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

As the HIV/AIDS pandemic enters its third decade in Latin America, not all the news is bad. Large public investments
Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press

Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press

If one reads the mainstream U.S. press to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is
A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette
Five Years Later: Judging Bush’s AIDS Initiative

Five Years Later: Judging Bush’s AIDS Initiative

In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced his plan to ask Congress for $15 billion to fight the global
Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America

Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America

In October, Erik Prince, the 39-year-old CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into
A New Era for Paraguay

A New Era for Paraguay

Paraguay finally put an end to 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party, formerly the world’s longest-serving party in
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

Perhaps more than any other modern epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and
Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Since 2001, the local manufacture in Cuba of eight antiretroviral drugs has guaranteed access to effective AIDS therapy to all
Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded in New York in 1987, it not only introduced
An Occasion for Reflection, Squandered

An Occasion for Reflection, Squandered

Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (DVD, 2008), a film by Fred Baker, 93 minutes, www.filmsbyfredbaker.com With Senator Barack Obama having become
Immigration: Beyond Tom and Jerry

Immigration: Beyond Tom and Jerry

Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, by Jorge G. Castañeda, The New Press, 2007, 222 pp., $25.95 hardcover While in