Luis Felipe Alvarez Leon (UCLA): Mao’s Steps in Monroe’s Backyard: Towards a United States-China Hegemonic Struggle in Latin America? Christian Houle (Michigan State) and Paul D. Kenny (ANU): Populism, Democracy, and Redistribution. Zoltan J. Acs (George Mason) and Paulo Guilherme Correa (World Bank): Identifying the Obstacles to High-Impact Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean. Simone Cecchini and Fernando Filgueira (ECLAC) and Claudia Robles (UNICEF): Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative View. Ligia M. De Jesus (Ave Maria): Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Laws and Relevant Jurisprudence Following the Adoption of the American Convention on Human Rights. David S Berry (UWI): Transitions in Caribbean Law: An Introduction. Ivelaw Griffith (Fort Valley State): The United States and the Caribbean Thirty Years after the Grenada Invasion: Dynamics of Geopolitics and Geonarcotics. From Politica Comun, a special issue on John Beverley’s Latinamericanism after 9/11. Charles R. Clement (INPA), Daniel Zizumbo-Villarreal (CICY), Cecil H. Brown (NIU), R. Gerard Ward (ANU), Alessandro Alves-Pereira (Sao Paulo), and Hugh C. Harries (CTL): Coconuts in the Americas. "One of the most ridiculous things that has ever occurred in the history of the United States": An excerpt from Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex von Tunzelmann, on how the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion changed the balance of power during the Cold War. It's long past time to end America's idiotic embargo of Cuba — but Cuba's human rights record is terrible, no matter what you think of the embargo. What you will and won’t be able to do now that Obama is opening relations with Cuba. You can download Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, ed. Mabel Morana and Bret Gustafson (2010).
