Latin America

My Paulina, my country My Paulina, my country

During the making of a film about my exile from Chile, I finally met the anonymous woman who saved my life during Pinochet's murderous reign.
By Ariel Dorfman Jun 11, 2008

  • What should we do with our $3 million?

    My husband, it turns out, inherited some money. We're talking about just moving to Mexico and drinking.
    By Cary Tennis June 3, 2008

  • Ask the pilot

    The rich, colorful, checkered history of flying in Latin America. Plus: In which cities is it best to just fly in and get the hell out?
    By Patrick Smith March 14, 2008

  • What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated?

    Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side.
    By Frances Kissling May 21, 2007

  • Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez

    Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
    By Lydia Chávez February 8, 2007

  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • No consensus on the Beijing Consensus

    Neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics? Or the long-lost Third Way?
    By Andrew Leonard September 15, 2006

  • Cocaine and free trade

    The war on drugs, trade policy and Latin America's "turn to the left."
    By Andrew Leonard June 22, 2006

  • Benedict's first big challenge

    Cardinal Ratzinger led the Catholic Church's efforts to quell Latin America's liberation theology movement in the 1980s. Now that he's pontiff, will he soften his stance?
    By Mary Jo McConahay April 20, 2005

  • Get over it

    In his meeting with Chilean President Lagos, Bush should show some maturity by forgiving a country that refused to send troops to Iraq; restoring U.S. credibility in Latin America requires it.
    By Arturo Valenzuela July 19, 2004

  • 100 years of solitude -- on crack

    Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga "Rosario Tijeras," it may have found its first masterpiece.
    By Rachel Aviv January 21, 2004

  • The man without a country

    How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home.
    By Mark Schapiro November 7, 2000

  • Guilty until proven useful

    Drug war money from the U.S. has helped prompt a retrial in Peru for jailed American Lori Berenson.
    By Bruce Shapiro September 15, 2000

  • Globalized grievance

    Indigenous Ecuadorians want Texaco to answer for alleged environmental recklessness in the Amazon -- and 30,000 of them are fighting the oil giant in U.S. District Court.
    By Ana Arana and Garry M. Leech September 7, 2000

  • An eerie campaign silence

    Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face.
    By Arianna Huffington September 1, 2000

  • Panama wants to stay out of the drug war

    Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia.
    By Mark Schapiro August 30, 2000

  • Venezuela's president is playing with fire

    By befriending U.S. enemies like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez risks alienating his troubled country's biggest trading partner.
    By David A. Wernick August 17, 2000

  • Breaking rank for human rights

    With lives and money at stake in the Colombian drug war, one human rights lawyer takes a pragmatic approach to influencing U.S. aid.
    By Ana Arana May 18, 2000

  • Super-sized testicles no man could wish for

    Jumbo testicles are found in the tropics.
    By Hank Hyena December 23, 1999

  • ¡Play beísbol!

    Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine.
    By Steve Kettmann March 29, 1999

  • A Yankee way of knowledge

    Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is.
    By Ian Shoales June 24, 1998

  • Newsreal: Once more to the death squads

    The chief beneficiaries of America's latest "war on drugs" in Colombia will be drug-trafficking right-wing death squads.
    By Andrew Reding November 24, 1997
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