Each bullet hole on the downtown AsunciĆ³n, Paraguay light posts tells a story. Some of them are from civil wars decades ago,…
Rain clouds ringed the lush hillsides and poor neighborhoods cradling Caracas, Venezuela as dozens of Latin American and Caribbean heads of state…
Massive buildings tower over Wall Street, making the sidewalks feel like valleys in an urban mountain range. The incense, drum beats and…
Earlier this summer, an anti-mining Indigenous movement in Peru successfully ousted a Canadian mining company from their territory. “In spite of government…
Cocaine, the drug fueling the trade that’s left thousands dead in Mexico and Central America since 2007 and which 1.4 million Americans…
Reviewed: Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action, a documentary film by Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published PM Press/Estreito Meios…
Fried pork rinds, fish, potatoes and eggs were sold by street vendors outside polling stations on election day in Lima, Peru. By…
When Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori arrived at a plaza in the city of Cajamarca for a recent campaign speech, she was…
Early in the morning on May 24, in the northern Brazilian Amazon, José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do…
Book by John Ross; New York: Nation Books, 2009, 512 pp. In El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, long-time journalist…
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