Central America After Mitch

Consensus politics has a bad name in Nicaragua—that is, where "consensus" means divvying up the spoils of government. The Somozas

In 1998, Colombians were filled with optimism about the possibility of a negotiated settlement to the armed conflict that has

In late October 1998, Hurricane Mitch pummeled Central America, causing extensive damage to the region, especially to Honduras and Nicaragua.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, business interests—both domestic and foreign—sought to use the crisis to advance their own interests.

Last year's devastating hurricane was the most recent in a series of tumultuous events that have rocked Nicaragua over the

On November 16, 1998, 12-year-old Bernardo González went for a swim in a pond near Puerto Viejo, in north-central Nicaragua.

The Communist Party of Peru, otherwise known as Shining Path, launched its "popular revolutionary war" in 1980, giving rise to

The ongoing deliberations of an elected Assembly charged with rewriting Venezuela's Constitution (see "Venezuelans Give Chávez Control of Constituent Assembly,"

The survivors of last October's devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua have lived through a double hurricane: a four-day meteorological event

The wind moved suddenly, shaking the branches of the mango trees. Just a few days before, a wave of humidity—different

This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a

Though the mainstream U. S. media stopped reporting the devastation left by Hurricane Mitch a few weeks after the storm