Nathan Sears (UDLA): Military Trends in South America, 1991-2013. Cristian Cabalin (Chile): The Conservative Response to the 2011 Chilean Student Movement: Neoliberal Education and Media. Samuel Friedman and Thiago Amparo (CEU): Pluralism and its Limits: The Constitutional Approach to Sexual Freedom in Brazil and the Way Ahead. Moises Naim on the tragedy of Venezuela: The country is now the world's capital of inflation, homicide, and scarcity — but half the population is no longer willing to tolerate it. Uruguay is a land of contrasts: As Brian Kevin observes, visitors can expect to see flashy import sedans right alongside donkey-drawn rickshaws. Stephan Richter and Uwe Bott on Brazil: An object of history or a subject? Undermining democratic capacity: Robert Wasserstrom on myth-making and oil development in Amazonian Ecuador. The parable of Argentina: There are lessons for many governments from one country’s 100 years of decline. Rodrigo Linares on how the current conflict in Venezuela could have easily have been avoided if minimal spaces for dialogue between opponents had been safeguarded. Carrying an extraordinary name is remarkably widespread in Brazil — just ask Wonarllevyston Garlan Marllon Branddon Bruno Paullynelly Mell Oliveira Pereira. The Pinochet myth is alive: Columnists keep saying the Chilean dictator was a brute who modernized the economy — actually, he was a brute with a rotten economic record. This is class war: Nicholas Laursen writes in defense of Venezuela (and part 2). With a building spree tearing apart sections of Rio de Janeiro, archaeological finds are giving new insight into its old role as a slave trade center.
