Bodies

On January 3, after years of an openly hostile relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Argentina cleared its entire

Stephen Frears’ film Dirty Pretty Things treats the traffic in human frailty and vulnerability in the shadowy underworld of immigrant

The following account is based on a series of diary entries, interviews and personal recollections about the events of February

The July 2000 elections in Mexico were historic for more reasons than the defeat of decades-long one-party rule. In a

“After 200 years of bees, let’s have 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government

As the tri-colored presidential sash was draped over the shoulder of Evo Morales on January 22, tears welled up in

Bioprospecting is a relatively new name for a well-established practice. The term was coined by sustainable development advocates in the

Economic historian Karl Polanyi had a name for things not originally produced for sale on the market: he called them

Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate

In “Cuba: New Partners and Old Limits” [September/October 2005, “Empire and Dissent”] Daniela Spenser calls for Cuba to devolve into

International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization by Thomas Olesen, 2005. Zed Books, 256 pages, $27.50

More than a decade ago, the authors of the once-groundbreaking book Biodiversity Prospecting argued that lifesaving drugs from genetic and