The Politics of Human Rights

  In 1992, Argentine president Carlos Menem launched the convertible peso, fixing the national currency at a one-to-one value with

  On January 31, 13 Venezuelan students of the opposition student group United Active Youth of Venezuela (JAVU) launched a

  In 1992, Argentine president Carlos Menem launched the convertible peso, fixing the national currency at a one-to-one value with

In March, the Cuban government released the last of 75 prisoners arrested in spring 2003 for acting as U.S. agents

  On September 21, Honduran president Porfirio Lobo addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the issue of

  Maestra, a documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, 33 mins., Spanish and English, with English subtitles, 2011, maestrathefilm.org.  

  Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy, by Paul Dix and Pamela Fitzpatrick, Just Sharing Press, 2011, 220 pp.,

  Presumed Guilty, a documentary film by Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith, 2009, 88 mins., Spanish with English subtitles, Icarus

  Human rights discourses have made a powerful comeback in Latin America. Although they emerged out of the resistance to

  In a frenzy to realign right-wing forces and pressure President Obama to protect “human rights” and security in Latin

  On August 9, about 400 delegates from Ecuador’s many social movements joined most of the country’s left-wing parties for

  Will tiny El Salvador, where two thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day, become the