How Pink Is the ‘Pink Tide’? Feminist and LGBT Activists Challenge the Left

Although Venezuela is still politically polarized between chavistas and antichavistas,¹ collective violence is a lot more subdued than during the

And so it happened, just like that. The swollen dictator croaked, and the generals, secret-service types, cadets and all the

CUBA REPRESENT! CUBAN ARTS, STATE POWER, AND THE MAKING OF NEW REVOLUTIONARY CULTURES by Sujatha Fernandes, 2006, Duke University Press,

Dozens upon dozens of young people lie sprawled across the floor of the Caracas airport. Despite the fluorescent glare, most

For Felipe Calderón, the second president of Mexico to come from the conservative National Action Party, this is year zero

In early January, the Independent Press Association, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, quietly announced via e-mail to its

Leftist politics has always had a complex relationship with women’s struggles, one that many times translates into political exploitation and

Many are speculating about the true colors of Latin America’s much-heralded “pink tide.” Just how close to socialist “red” are

On the night of December 20, 2001, less than an hour after President Fernando de la Rúa declared martial law,

THE DEVIL BEHIND THE MIRROR: GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC by Stephen Gregory, 2006, University of California Press,

The election of Chile’s first female president in January 2006 sparked unprecedented interest in the developments of gender relations and

Throughout the 1990s, the Bolivian women’s movement was ideologically polarized between a liberal, NGO-based “gender technocracy” and the anarcha-feminism embodied