Latin America

While President Bush has emphasized US aid to developing countries, the Salvadoran experience shows how the economic policies he is promoting on his Latin American tour work to deepen poverty and impede progress toward human rights.

An academic article on the evolving human rights discourse during the country's civil war.

The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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.

The demand for a full recount is a legitimate one.

A campaign of fear may have kept Mexico locked into the status quo.

Bush won't cheer a progressive win in Mexico's presidential election, but the rest of us should.

Railing against Bolivia's oil and gas nationalization, the media's "free trade" ideologues value markets over democracy.

A review of Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin.

Would a Win By Ollanta Humala Be Another Step Forward for the Latin American Left?