From Boston Review, Augusto Pinochet privatized Chile’s higher education and made it the most expensive in the world; now Chileans are fighting to get it back; and Jose Efrain Rios Montt has escaped responsibility for genocide, and so has the United States (and more). Aryeh Neier on Guatemala: Will justice be done? In a leftward-moving region, the iron fist of Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo makes him Obama’s sort of “democrat”. The two faces of Latin America: If you want to see both the potential and the peril in Latin America, you could not do better than to visit Honduras and Colombia. Is Mexico “breaking good”? Kenneth Rogoff wonders. Tomas Hachard on power wars and populism in Argentina. Venezuela’s president has ordered the creation of a new workers’ militia to defend the country’s “Bolivarian revolution” at a time when the government faces economic problems and political turmoil. The answer is Colombia: Nina Martyris on reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s morbidity in the happiest country on earth.
