The “preferential option for the poor,” the once-radical idea that God identifies with the oppressed and impoverished, has been mainstreamed as Catholic theological doctrine.
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Latin America
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Morales gooit het roer om
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Mark Engler quoted in a Hungarian article on Latin American populism.
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Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor. …
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What are the lessons from the Salvadoran civil war for Iraq?
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A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border.
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With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.
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The White House’s failure to push forward its latest “free trade” deal is a victory for working people throughout the Americas.
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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.
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To truly promote democracy in Latin America, the U.S. must redefine its national interests in the region.