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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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Dec 14, 2006
No consensus on the Beijing Consensus: Neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics? Or the long-lost Third Way?; Andrew Leonard Sep 15, 2006
Cocaine and free trade: The war on drugs, trade policy and Latin America's "turn to the left."; Andrew Leonard Jun 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 Apr 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 Jul 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Dec 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 Mar 29, 1999
A Yankee way of knowledge: Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is.; By Ian Shoales Jun 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 Nov 24, 1997

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