Recently added articles from NACLA Report on the Americas:

Getting Personal: Cuéllar and the ILEA/Wes Enzinna Replies

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... We, the undersigned, write to express serious concerns about the article "Another SOA? A U.S. Police Academy in El Salvador Worries Critics," which appeared in the March/April edition of the NACLA Report on the Americas. There has been debate in El Salvador about the recently established ...

The Basic Food Position: 2008

Jul 01, 2008; Rosen, Fred ... Food is the first thing; morals follow on. -Bertolt Brecht AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS DECADE, WHEN hunger was less desperate than it is today, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that between 5 million and 6 million children died every year from ...

Introduction

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America AS THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC ENTERS ITS THIRD DECADE in Latin America, not all the news is bad. Large public investments in the treatment and prevention of the disease offer some cautious hope that the pandemic can be slowed, contained, and made ...

A New Era for Paraguay

Jul 01, 2008; Lambert, Peter ... PARAGUAY FINALLY PUT AN END TO 61 YEARS of rule by the Colorado Patty, formerly the world's longest-serving party in power, in presidential elections on April 20. Despite pre-election polls that consistently predicted an opposition victory, a palpable sense of disbelief, as well as euphoria, ...

Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Stoner, Eric ... IN OCTOBER, ERIK PRINCE, THE 39-YEAR-OLD CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into damage-control mode. Blackwater employees in Baghdad's Nisour Square had killed 17 Iraqi civilians the previous month, causing an uproar and the suspension of ...

A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Smallman, Shawn ... IN 2004 I INTERVIEWED EVA, A TRANSCENDER former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette hair, stylish black glasses, and simple but chic clothes. She told me that her father had kicked her out of the family home after realizing that his son perceived ...

Five Years Later: Judging Bush's AIDS Initiative

Jul 01, 2008; Smallman, Shawn ... In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced his plan to ask Congress for $15 billion to fight the global AIDS pandemic. In contrasttothe 1980s and 1990s-when many U.S. conservatives, most notoriously Ronald Reagan, studiously avoided referring to HIV-after the millennium, conservative ...

AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model

Jul 01, 2008; Parker, Richard ... PERHAPS MORE THAN ANY OTHER MODERN epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and perhaps still the quintessential epidemic of the global era. Yet, at least initially, it was also an epidemic that seriously called into question notions of technological progress and ...

Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV

Jul 01, 2008; Castro, Arachu; Khawja, Yasmin; González-Núñez, Ida ... SINCE 2001, THE LOCAL MANUFACTURE IN Cuba of eight antiretroviral drugs has guaranteed access to effective AIDS therapy to all Cubans who meet the clinical criteria for the disease.1 Although the incidence of HIV in Cuba has continued to increase, both the number of deaths from AIDS and the ...

Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War

Jul 01, 2008; Ballvé, Teo ... A FEW MONTHS BEFORE MYRIAN COSSIO's 20TH birthday, in San José del Guaviare, a bustling frontier town deep in Colombia's eastern tropical lowlands, armed men forced her into a car. She immediately knew they were from one of the three armed groups fighting in Colombia's decades-long civil ...

An Occasion for Reflection, Squandered

Jul 01, 2008; Young, Cynthia ... An Occasion for Reflection, Squandered By Cynthia Young ASSATA AKA JOANNE CHESIMARD (DVD, 2008), a film by Fred Baker, 93 minutes, www. filmsbyfredbaker. com WITH SENATOR BARACK OBAMA HAVING become the United States' first black presidential candidate from one of ...

REASON TO BELIEVE: CULTURAL AGENCY IN LATIN AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... REASON TO BELIEVE: CULTURAL AGENCY IN LATIN AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM by David Smilde, University of California Press, 2007,277 pp., $21.95 paperback SINCE MID-CENTURY, ABOUT 50 MILLION Latin Americans have converted to Protestantism. Anthropologist David Smilde asks why this is so in the ...

Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

Jul 01, 2008; González, M Alfredo ... WHEN THE AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH Power (ACT UP) was founded in New York in 1987, it introduced a proactive stance into the United States' AIDS crisis but also united people at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In the years following the Stonewall riots, the philosophy that fueled the ...

THE PEOPLE BEHIND COLOMBIAN COAL: MINING, MULTINATIONALS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THE PEOPLE BEHIND COLOMBIAN COAL: MINING, MULTINATIONALS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS edited by Aviva Chomsky, Carry Leech, and Steve Striffler, Casa Editorial Pisando Callos (Bogota), 2007,200 pp., $12 paperback RARELY DOES SUCH A COMPREHENSIVE AND rich account of a case of devastation come into ...

Immigration: Beyond Tom and Jerry

Jul 01, 2008; Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio ... Immigration: Beyond Tom and Jerry By Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo EX MEX: FROM MIGRANTS TO IMMIGRANTS by Jorge G. Castañeda, The New Press, 2007, 222 pp., $25.95 hardcover WHILE IN THE UNITED STATES and Mexico it would seem that conventional understandings of national sovereignty, national ...

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA: PROBLEMS, PROMISE, AND PRACTICE

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA: PROBLEMS, PROMISE, AND PRACTICE edited by David Carruthers, The MIT Press. 2008,336 pp., $25 paperback THE EDITOR BROUGHT OUT THIS BOOK in order to contribute to what he calls "an emerging effort to explore the promise and limits of environmental ...

Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press

Jul 01, 2008; Gustafson, Bret ... IF ONE READS THE MAINSTREAM U.S. PRESS to understand recent events in Bolivia, the following composite story emerges: Bolivia is a deeply divided andfractured country of profound cleavages, bitter/ragmentation, and civil conflict, most of which can be attributed to the country's president, Evo ...