Western Hemisphere
On April 11, 2002, a massive peaceful opposition march in downtown Caracas suddenly veered from its authorized route and headed toward the presidential palace. Nelson's minute-by-minute reporting vividly re-creates the infectious excitement of mass participation, and his well-sketched mini-portraits illuminate the deeper currents of Venezuela's polarized politics.
Edited by Liliana Rojas-Suarez
To build a stout analytic framework for the next generation of market-oriented reforms that will secure and continue past progress in Latin America, the Center for Global Development has pooled the talents of some of the hemisphere's leading social scientists in this cutting-edge synthesis of "lessons learned."
No, the United States' southern neighbor, with its many sophisticated institutions and complex social networks, is not the next Afghanistan. But as the veteran Mexico watcher Grayson documents in lurid and depressing detail, powerful drug traffickers have corrupted the country's political and law enforcement establishments at all levels.
Edited by Jane S. Jaquette
This welcome update on the current state of the feminist agenda in the region is full of strong contributions.
Political-campaign junkies will relish this numbers-rich review of the last Mexican presidential election, in which the conservative candidate, Felipe Calderón, overcame the early lead of the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to the great relief of Washington.
