Richard Feinberg

Caught in the crossfire between militant insurgents and government forces, unarmed civilians are often portrayed as helpless. Kaplan rejects this idea.

In this ambitious study, Lessing argues that governments cannot successfully pursue the three interconnected goals of combating narcotics trafficking, eliminating...

Ramos, a Mexican immigrant and news anchor at Univision, writes that the role of a journalist is to challenge the powerful and...

Galeano, a self-proclaimed eternal optimist, had a passion for giving voice to the weak and illiterate and for recording the heroism of the vanquished.

Cuba, like its cuisine, is a grand fusion of African, Amerindian, French, and especially Spanish influences.

The more recent near collapse of the country’s political system and economy has at least momentarily returned Brazil to mere middle-power status.

The loyalty of Cuban subjects to the Spanish crown emerges as a theme in Waiting for Uncle John, a fictionalized account of the little-known 1851 Bahía Honda...

At Huaca Prieta (Spanish for “dark mound”), multiple generations of kinship communities constructed impressive earthworks for their rituals and burials.

Many Latin American countries took advantage of the economic boom that began at the beginning of this century to dramatically expand their institutions of higher...

Burbach, who passed away in 2015, was a self-styled “utopian intellectual vagabond” who had fled his Midwestern origins to struggle alongside left-wing comrades...

Now more accessible to U.S. visitors than at any time in the past six decades, Cuba has become a popular backdrop for fictional adventures.

In this timely and well-researched report, World Bank economists survey recent findings on the state of chronic poverty in Latin America, which afflicts 130 million...

Contrary to popular perceptions that Latin American corruption is only getting worse, Casas-Zamora and Carter argue the opposite: corruption is becoming easier to...

Four Seasons in Havana introduces the novelist Padura’s Havana Quartet series of crime thrillers and his legendary detective and (one suspects) alter ego, Mario...