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The Political Lives of Mario Vargas Llosa

The Political Lives of Mario Vargas Llosa The Political Lives of Mario Vargas Llosa

How Peru’s greatest novelist went from socialist to neoliberal ideologue.

Apr 15, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Iber

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She Helped Convict Her Rapist. ICE Deported Her Anyway. She Helped Convict Her Rapist. ICE Deported Her Anyway.

Nancy applied for a visa designed for undocumented victims of crimes, but that couldn’t keep her in the US.

Apr 1, 2019 / Isabela Dias

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Letters From the April 1, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 1, 2019, Issue

Channeling Allende As a person who has lived and worked in South and Central America for many years, I read with joy and sorrow the comment by Ariel Dorfman [“Advice for Maduro,” M…

Mar 14, 2019 / Our Readers

Venezuela Dam

Venezuela’s Deadly Blackout Highlights the Need for a Negotiated Resolution of the Crisis Venezuela’s Deadly Blackout Highlights the Need for a Negotiated Resolution of the Crisis

Maduro is corrupt and increasingly repressive, but US sanctions and violence by the US-supported opposition have contributed to Venezuelans’ suffering.

Mar 13, 2019 / Gabriel Hetland

Stolen gasoline in Mexico

How AMLO Is Taking on Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Gasoline Thieves How AMLO Is Taking on Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Gasoline Thieves

For years, the country’s war on illicit activity has only encouraged more violence. Its new president has a plan to change that.

Mar 8, 2019 / Kurt Hackbarth and Colin Mooers

Ro Khanna introduces Yemen resolution

Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy

The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.

Mar 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

USICE

US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger

In Trump’s America, paperwork can be lethal. 

Mar 5, 2019 / Daniel Moattar

Drought

The End of Our World Order Is Imminent The End of Our World Order Is Imminent

At least 200 empires have risen and fallen over the course of history, and the United States will be no exception.

Feb 28, 2019 / Alfred McCoy

Venezuelan Crisis

Trump’s Other ‘National Emergency’: Sanctions That Kill Venezuelans Trump’s Other ‘National Emergency’: Sanctions That Kill Venezuelans

The humanitarian crisis will get rapidly worse if the most recent sanctions continue.

Feb 28, 2019 / Mark Weisbrot

Allende and Maduro

Salvador Allende le ofrece una salida a Maduro Salvador Allende le ofrece una salida a Maduro

El fallecido presidente chileno comparte algunos consejos desde más allá de la tumba.  

Feb 27, 2019 / Ariel Dorfman

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