Latin America

  • uncle sam. History of us imperialism in latin america

    US imperialism in Central America

    Grace Livingstone gives an overview of overt and covert US military and intelligence interventions

  • Three vehicles full of Mexican troops silhouetted against a blue sky

    The casualties of Mexico’s war on drugs

    Behind the bloody headlines of Mexico’s war on drugs, creeping militarism and corruption is silencing public dissent. Government policy failures are leading to social breakdown, writes Siobhan McGuirk with Maria Felix

  • A mural showing Fidel Castro waiving at a crowd who are holding a sign commemorating the former dictator Fulgencio Batista's fall from power on 1st January 1959

    Why Cuba is still important

    Diana Raby argues that those who deny the legitimacy of the Cuban system will never understand why, after 50 years, the revolution is still an ongoing reality

  • An Aymara woman looking out over the Bolivian city of Copacabana from above

    Bolivia at the crossroads

    Socialist Evo Morales and white neoliberal Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga face off in Bolivia’s 2005 general election, exposing deep divides within the country

  • Caribbean Cold War

    As the US runs roughshod over international law, Harold Pinter demands justice for Cuba. Eleanor Janega and Jane Holgate contribute their views.