Colombia’s Magic Laptops

Colombia’s Magic Laptops

In September, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it was designating one former and
Colombia’s Magic Laptops

Colombia’s Magic Laptops

In September, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it was designating one former and
The Making of Piquetero Television

The Making of Piquetero Television

Argentina’s alternative media have commonly limited their role in the social movements to informing the public about corporate media’s misinformation
The Civic Tranformation of Mexican Newspapers

The Civic Tranformation of Mexican Newspapers

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

On Patricio Guzmán’s

Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased
Reporters Under Fire in Colombia

Reporters Under Fire in Colombia

Forty years of civil war have taken a heavy toll on Colombia’s press corps. In the last decade alone, at
The Battle of Latino Media

The Battle of Latino Media

If anyone ever sets out to write a history of Latino media in the United States, he or she could
Defending Rights in a Hostile Environment

Defending Rights in a Hostile Environment

In October 1996, after spending two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of terrorism, Emeteria Quispe Chillce was freed from the
Latin America Online

Latin America Online

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Life and Death in the Peruvian Amazon

Life and Death in the Peruvian Amazon

Luis Sonihue died on May 12. He was an elderly man from the community of Esse'Eja in Madre de Dios,
Terror and the Press

Terror and the Press

On May 25, Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya was kidnapped, beaten and raped. She was my co-worker at the Bogotá daily,
U.S. Invasion: Grenada Disappeared

U.S. Invasion: Grenada Disappeared

One of the lingering mysteries of the U.S. invasion of Grenada is how the Reagan Administration gener- ated such wide