I'm sick and tired of trying to meet our commentariat's demands for more posts about Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. To shut you all up about these vital nations, I'm linking to Colin's post about the forgotten South American nations and why their histories are...
Latin America
A new survey of the world's most deadly cities show that the top 33 are in the Americas, with the vast majority along the drug highway in North America and.
Interesting pair of articles on Latin American military institutions. First Guatemala: They burned villages, killed children and, just a winding road away from here in 1982, the Guatemalan military also.
Colin Snider, my old blogging partner from Alterdestiny, has started a new blog dedicated to Latin American issues. It's been up for a month or so now with many excellent posts. His frequent "Around Latin America" posts are excellent round-ups of the region, which we...
I'm not sure if this is a very good idea. I know I look forward to them spreading across Honduras and Nicaragua. Maybe they can sell shirts emblazoned with images.
Building on the discussion of indigenous poverty in Oaxaca from a couple of days ago is this Guardian piece on indigenous children not going to school in rural Oaxaca, thus.
This week, I want to highlight the excellent blog on Latin American affairs, Bloggings by Boz. Boz has provided seminal coverage of Latin American affairs for years. This is a blog with some readership but not nearly enough. I'll argue very strongly that even informed...