Will Butcher and James K. Galbraith (Texas): Microfinance Control Fraud: Poverty and Profiteering in Latin America. Dawn Paley (Puebla): Drug War as Neoliberal Trojan Horse. Dave Kellaway reviews Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Political Economy. Latin America’s poverty is down, but violence is up — why? Latin America is considered the world's most violent region, and 2014 did little to change that. The introduction to The Struggle for Memory in Latin America: Recent History and Political Violence, ed. Eugenia Allier-Montano and Emilio Crenzel. Will there be real change in Argentina? Federico Finchelstein wants to know. The end of the Chavez era? Venezuela’s ruling party is losing its grip on power. Will it be a majority or supermajority in Venezuela, and why this matters. Phil Gunson on Venezuela: Chavismo in crisis. Steve Ellner on setting the record straight on Venezuela. Is this the end of the Latin American Left? Guillaume Long on the end of Latin America’s Left turn? Ecuador may disappoint you.
