Excerpted from the new book Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, by Sujatha Fernandes (pp.…

After gathering proposals during a six-week trip around the country, members of Bolivia’s National Constituent Assembly met on April 30, 2007, to…

Published in LASA Forum, Winter 2007 The radical trajectory of president Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has been a highly controversial topic among…

Since Hugo Chavez of Venezuela proposed the dissolution of the 24 parties that support his government and the formation of a single…

As several more leftist leaders were elected or re-elected during recent elections in Latin America, what kinds of changes have there been…

For the first time ever on July 31, Fidel Castro, chief comandante of the Cuban Revolution, temporarily relinquished power. Incapacitated with severe…

Following the rejection by the Mexican Electoral Tribunal this past Saturday August 6 of a full recount of the vote from Mexico’s recent…

The southwestern peninsula of Trinidad is an area of pristine beauty and wilderness. Winding roads pass through small fishing villages, mangrove swamps,…

Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, Brazil’s president Lula Inacio da Silva, and Nestor Kirchner, president of Argentina, met in Sao Paulo, Brazil on…

This past January, regional social forums were celebrated in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali. Another regional forum happened in Karachi, Pakistan in…