A review of Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America by M. C. Mirow. Financial liberalisation undermines democracy, handing power to a “virtual senate” that acts on behalf of the wealthy few; a handful of Latin American countries offer an alternative. A review of The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity by Jorge Coronado. Augusto Varas on Latin America’s integration muddle and Jorge Castaneda on Latin America’s calm before the storm. Welcome to the Latin American decade: Having weathered the financial crisis, Latin America now has the opportunity to join Asia in leading a global economic recovery. A review of What If Latin America Ruled the World? How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera. The eternal land of the future: An excerpt from Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism by Sebastian Edwards. Notes on the Bicentennial: Benjamin Kunkel on Argentinidad. Stonehenge in England, the medicine wheels of the American West, and in the Dominican Republic, the Corral de Los Indios: it seems that there is something universal about the creation of circular stone ceremonial and astronomical sites. Can the Internet bring change to Cuba? The War for Drugs: Sarah Hill on how Juarez became the world’s deadliest city. Can tourism be sustainable? With Machu Picchu literally sinking into the ground, Peru looks for authentic, eco-friendly ways to grow its travel sector. Argentina's Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias. An excerpt from Jeff Conant’s A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency. New York is the most Latin American city in the world.
