Jake Johnston’s carefully investigated Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism and the Battle to Control Haiti sheds light on the geopolitical origins of the paramilitary death squads currently wreaking havoc on Port-au-Prince.
Forty years after the U.S. invasion, centering Caribbean perspectives on the rise and demise of a revolutionary movement holds the possibility of stepping out from empire’s shadow and imagining alternative futures.
The Colombian media is in the midst of a nostalgia fest, sparked by the twentieth anniversary of Pablo Escobar's death. The jefe of the Medellín Cartel, estimated fifteenth richest man in the world, some time Liberal party congressman, some time grave robber, Escobar has been the subject of a number of best selling books in both Colombia and the United States.
