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Introduction: From Hope to Despair? Latin America’s Year of Elections

May 1, 2006 | Elections, Introduction

Latin American democracy is living through unprecedented times. The list of countries where political leadership is not determined through competitive elections has for many years now been limited to one case: Cuba. Between November 2005 and December 2006, electoral episodes will be cruising the region at full steam. Twelve countries will have featured presidential contests: Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, …

Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate

Dec 9, 2005 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Flora and Fauna, Flora and Fauna

first met Kevin “Benito” Healy a little over four years ago at an information session he gave to a group of State Department Foreign Service officers on their way to assignments in the Andes. After the session, I asked Healy…

Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform

May 15, 2005 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy

In the 1990s, education policy in Latin America cried out for reform. Although literacy rates and access to education in Latin America had risen in previous decades, education reform became…

U.S. Drug and Coca Eradication Policies in Bolivia

May 15, 2005 | Health and Drugs, U.S. Foreign Policy

The 1980s brought us such things as big hair, baggy clothes, and the resurgence of both neon colors and the electric keyboard. It also brought us Reaganomics and a rambunctious First Lady…

Proclaiming Revolution

Dec 28, 2003 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Human Rights, Human Rights

In April of 1952, Bolivia, an obscure, landlocked, country with a mining economy and an impoverished indigenous majority in the heart of South America jumped to the front pages of…

Country: Bolivia

Introduction: From Hope to Despair? Latin America’s Year of Elections

Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate

Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform

U.S. Drug and Coca Eradication Policies in Bolivia

Proclaiming Revolution