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Defying the Bush Administration’s neoconservative worldview, El Salvador’s historic Truth Commission Report has once again become a living document.

To truly promote democracy in Latin America, the U.S. must redefine its national interests in the region.

Finding the tipping point for Vietnam—and for Iraq.

New disputes are calling into question what the Central American Free Trade Agreement will look like in practice.

Will the U.S. lose its influence over countries that have paid off their IMF loans?

If you think the third world debt crisis was solved at the meetings of G8 leaders last summer, think again.

Under Bush’s new Director of Foreign Assistance, Randall Tobias, U.S. foreign assistance will be more overtly political than ever. Can progressives in good conscience demand increased aid?

A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

What will Evo Morales learn from leftist governments in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela?

While lavish agricultural subsidies illustrate wealthy countries’ hypocritical stance on “free trade,” ending them would be no panacea for human development.