From Cultural Survival, a special issue on Brazil. Getting it together at last: Brazil used to be all promise — now it is beginning to deliver. Will success spoil Brazil? Arthur Ituassu wants to know. A review of Brazil Under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society Under the Worker-President. The first chapter from Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil by James Holston. Down Mexico: Brazil-envy is rife in Latin America’s other big economy. The fall of Mexico: The government’s assault on drug cartels has become an amorphous civil war that threatens to bring down the nation. The most violent city on Earth: Ciudad Juarez takes on the drug cartels. An article on Mexico's leftist La Jornada: 25 years of rabble rousing. From LRB, Judith Baker and Ian Hacking walk the highlands of the Andes. Does the "democratisation of culture" in Venezuela under Chavez spell indoctrination? The last revolutionary: Fidel Castro has survived 600 assassination attempts to become the world symbol of anti-capitalism. Castro’s favourite capitalist: Will Sherritt International come to regret dealing with Communist Cuba? Two semi-intrepid travelers meditate (with the help of a great deal of puffing) on the Cuban Communist roots of an American capitalist icon. An interview with Claudio Katz on Latin America, the right and imperialism: "The solution to the crisis of capitalism has to be political". Reflections on a decade of civic revolutions in Latin America: Having concluded that US and World Bank prescriptions failed their region, a new generation of leaders seek economic and social development through homegrown strategies.
