http://dir.salon.com/topics/latin_america/?source=rss&aim=latin_america en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT By Ariel Dorfman Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/06/11/dorfman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/06/11/dorfman/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/06/03/married_a_millionaire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/06/03/married_a_millionaire/index.html?source=rss My husband, it turns out, inherited some money. We're talking about just moving to Mexico and drinking. By Patrick Smith Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/03/14/askthepilots268/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/03/14/askthepilots268/index.html?source=rss 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 Frances Kissling Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/21/excommunication/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/21/excommunication/index.html?source=rss 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 Lydia Chávez Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/08/ortega/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/02/08/ortega/index.html?source=rss 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 Sidney Blumenthal Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew Leonard Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/09/15/beijing_consensus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/09/15/beijing_consensus/index.html?source=rss Neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics? Or the long-lost Third Way? By Andrew Leonard Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/22/drugs_and_free_trade/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/22/drugs_and_free_trade/index.html?source=rss The war on drugs, trade policy and Latin America's "turn to the left." By Mary Jo McConahay Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/20/latin_america/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/20/latin_america/index.html?source=rss 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 Arturo Valenzuela Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/19/chile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/19/chile/index.html?source=rss 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 Rachel Aviv Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/21/mcondo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/21/mcondo/index.html?source=rss 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 Mark Schapiro Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/07/montesinos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/07/montesinos/index.html?source=rss 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 Bruce Shapiro Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/15/berenson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/15/berenson/index.html?source=rss Drug war money from the U.S. has helped prompt a retrial in Peru for jailed American Lori Berenson. By Ana Arana and Garry M. Leech Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/07/oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/07/oil/index.html?source=rss 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 Arianna Huffington Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/01/colombia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/01/colombia/index.html?source=rss 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 Mark Schapiro Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/30/panama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/30/panama/index.html?source=rss 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 David A. Wernick Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/17/venezuela/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/17/venezuela/index.html?source=rss By befriending U.S. enemies like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez risks alienating his troubled country's biggest trading partner. By Ana Arana Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/colombia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/colombia/index.html?source=rss 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 Hank Hyena Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/1999/12/23/elephantiasis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/1999/12/23/elephantiasis/index.html?source=rss Jumbo testicles are found in the tropics. By Steve Kettmann Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/03/29/newsb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/03/29/newsb/index.html?source=rss Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine. By Ian Shoales Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/06/24/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/06/24/news/index.html?source=rss Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is. By Andrew Reding Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/24/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/11/24/news/index.html?source=rss The chief beneficiaries of America's latest "war on drugs" in Colombia will be drug-trafficking right-wing death squads.