The Bolivia crisis: Evaluating Evo
2020 Febrero América Latina
Bolivia’s dramatic events have followed an imperialist script Latin Americans are starting to know well: arrange for the regime change of a government...

The open veins of Nicaragua
2018 Julio Nicaragua
I belong to the generation of those whose heart throbbed to the beat of the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, actively supporting it. Latin...

Reflections on the referendum in Catalonia
2017 Octubre Internacional
The Catalonian referendum on Sunday, October 1, will become part of Europe’s history, possibly for the worst of reasons. I don’t discuss here the substantive...

“We lack the imagination to think of alternatives”
2016 Noviembre Centroamérica
A great Guatemalan sociologist, Edelberto Torres- Rivas, whom many of you know and of whose research CLASCO is fortunately preparing a compilation, has...

Ecuador: A citizens’ revolution …without citizens?
2016 Abril América Latina
Latin America’s leftist intellectuals, of whom I consider myself one by adoption, have made two mistakes in their analysis of the political processes...

Hugo Chávez’s legacy of goals, accomplishments and challenges
2013 Abril Venezuela
The most charismatic democratic political leader of recent decades has died. When this happens in a democracy the charisma creates a particularly moving...

A Letter to all the Left
2011 Octubre Internacional
I don’t doubt that there’s a future for the Left but it won’t be a linear continuation of the past. To define what the different Left expressions have...