Post Cold War Latin America: In the Eagle’s Shadow

Since the Mexican devaluation of December, 1994 several other major financial cataclysms have occurred in the Third World; together these

The historical period that began with the fall of the Soviet Union and the advent of the United States as

The persistent conflict between the United States and Cuba seems to be an exception to historian Eric Hobsbawm’s concept of

The U.S. plan to create the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) as a hemisphere-wide successor to, and expansion

When Mexico’s President Vicente Fox paid a visit to the White House and the U.S. Congress last September, he spoke

In this issue’s Open Forum [“Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web,” see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la

Peruvians are just beginning to untangle the web of high-level corruption woven during Alberto Fujimori’s presidency. Fujimori was first elected

Since the Mexican devaluation of December, 1994 several other major financial cataclysms have occurred in the Third World; together these

As foreign reporters descended upon Managua during the runup to last fall’s presidential election between Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and

Colombia has been wracked by civil war for 37 years and today the nation is at a crossroads: Either it

In the fall of 2000, a theater in Santiago’s Bellavista district featured the play Con Flores Amarillas, the story of

In this issue’s Open Forum [“Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web,” see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la