Empire and Dissent

Teo Ballvé’s essay “Is Venezuela the New Cuba?” [July/August] is one more musing from the “left” that seeks to denigrate

The continued ability of president Hugo Chávez to carry out significant reforms in the face of U.S. hostility and an

The world has changed considerably since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Unlike 1959, the world is now characterized by

The Zapatista movement is probably one of the best-known examples of dissent against the neoliberal model of economic globalization. On

At a house armed services committee meeting in March 2004, the then-commander of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), Gen. James

By most accounts, the opening salvo in Bolivia’s ongoing revolutionary cycle occurred in 2000.1 Mothers, unionists, campesinos, students, in fact,

Continuing his courtship of Latin America, President Hugo Chávez has introduced a bevy of energy proposals over the past months

Fifty years have passed since the historic Bandung conference, one of the first meetings of countries from the “Global South”

For the past century, U.S. domination over Latin America has been a multifaceted process with military, economic, technological, financial, cultural

It is sometimes asserted that Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez (1999-present) has been an economic failure. For example, a recent

Passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which also includes the Dominican Republic, by two votes in the

Since trade unionist Luiz Inácio lula da Silva won Brazil’s 2002 presidential elections, he has surprised his own supporters as