imperialism with a human face

By contrast, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Latin American and Caribbean allies assembled in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) announced their opposition to America’s shock doctrine. ..

the end of the “golden decade”

What remains definitively off the table is the Chavista fantasy of the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) as politico-commercial space for Latin American nations that would privilege interregional ties and agreements with “ideologically related” countries (that is,..

haiti’s humanitarian crisis

Since 2005, Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine has graduated 70 Haitian doctors per year, a priceless national acquisition. . Bolivarian Venezuela has also earned a special place in the hearts of Haitians. ..

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