What took the left to government in this part of the world should be understood as part of a process of exclusion of the poor strata of society from the socio-political arena. Español.
The recent assassination of Colombian marxist insurgent group leader Alfonso Cano has been hailed internationally as an advance towards peace, giving Colombia a boost down the path to becoming the latest emerging market of Latin America. A closer look at the history and nature of Colombia's nearly
Attempts to claim electoral fraud this weekend in Nicaragua, by elements in the national press and in the US, were thwarted. They ignore significant social advances by the newly re-elected Daniel Ortega, argues John Perry. A version of this article was first published on the LRB blog
