civil society

During the first three decades of the revolution, there was a gradual transformation of the Cuban population's values in favor

If we define actors (social, political, economic) as groups having a distinctive public profile and defined interests vis-à-vis the system

In Latin America, NGOs have historical roots in the Catholic Church's fear of social unrest. In the 1950s, the Church

It is often assumed that the growth of NGOs in Latin America reflects a strengthening of civil society. But in

It is probably inevitable that historical watersheds are transformed into slo- gans of tremendous symbolic power. Nixon encountered his "Waterloo"

The concept of civil society refers to a sphere of collective action distinct from both the market and "political society."

The first time that I heard someone argue about the importance of civil society in Cuba was in 1984, during

A second wave of feminism has swept Latin America. Women are discussing the kinds of power they have in their

Almost two decades after the wave of political transitions to "democracy" in South America, the effective protection of human rights

Any analysis of civil society in Cuba faces two major difficulties, one of a theoretical and the other of a

By the mid 1990s, it was apparent that something astounding was happening in Mexico, home of the world’s longest-running single