Peru: Reading While Walking
If summer is a time to travel it is also a time to read. For me combining the two is …
Category Archives: Latin America
Peru and Climate Change: 1000 years ago
With my recent trip to Peru and on-going existence in the modern world, I found this to be an interesting …
Peru: It’s A Jungle Out There
The sun rises at 6 a.m. in the jungles along the Tambopata River in eastern Peru. Faint whispers of light …
Peru: Out of the World and In It
It’s always instructive to leave what is familiar and visit what is only partially so. The lens of vision shifts. …
Poor Paraguay
The heat and drought and dried trees that have ravaged Montana, Idaho, California and Greece have combined to consume huge …
Farmworker Organizer Beaten To Death
The backside of the US farm-labor market is hidden away in the mountains of Northern Mexico. Recruiters in the pay …
Good One Gone
It’s hard to imagine, from our comfortable lives, what Rufina Amaya witnessed, what she experienced during the witnessing; it’s hard …
Columbia: Para Military Politicos
$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that …
Argentine Arrest Warrants for Rafsanjani
An Argentine judge ordered international arrest warrants on Thursday for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others in …
Mexico – How to Contest An Election
Just in case the Mexican election had slipped off your radar — and why wouldn’t it?– this is a reminder …
Mexico – Presidential Election
Believe it or not there is a Presidential election campaign going on in Mexico. Sunday marks the day. The three …
Venzuela — North Korea
This ought to get a few spitoons in the White House filled up. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic …