January 1, 2005
Claudia Jardim is a Brazilian journalist living and working in Caracas, Venezuela as correspondent for the Brazilian weekly Brazil de Fato and the Venezuelan online journal www.alia2.net.This article was translated… READ MORE
January 1, 2005
Che Guevara delivered this speech on August 19, 1960, to the Cuban Militia. This article is adapted from the translation by Beth Kurti that was published in Obra Revolucionaria, 1960,… READ MORE
December 1, 2004
New Political Science, a journal associated with the Caucus for a New Political Science, has devoted its entire September 2004 number to “The Politics of Empire, Terror and Hegemony.” The… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
David Raby is a research fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Latin American Studies.This essay originally appeared as “Shanties into Ploughshares” on the Red Pepper Web site. With… READ MORE
October 1, 2004
For more than a decade now the major corporate media and the U.S. government have been celebrating the growing “democratization” of Latin America. Rather than reflecting a genuine concern with… READ MORE
September 1, 2004
The nations of the Caribbean have the world’s second highest HIV infection rates, after sub-Saharan Africa. One Caribbean nation, Cuba, however, has largely escaped the disease with only a 0.07… READ MORE
September 1, 2004
In 1976, a military dictatorship seized control of Argentina. A period of terror swept the land as 30,000 people were “disappeared.” The dictatorship, with the support of the United States,… READ MORE
June 1, 2004
A note to MR readers from Bob McChesney… � In 2000 I agreed to become coeditor of Monthly Review along with my dear friend John Bellamy Foster. I had been… READ MORE
June 1, 2004
“Puerto Rican Obituary” was first read in 1969 at a rally in support of the Young Lords Party, an anti-imperialist Latino youth group in New York. Like the Black Panther… READ MORE