Jon Lee Anderson
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 05:05
After an entire week in which Haiti had no President, the country’s lawmakers held a special session that dragged on for twelve hours and ended, early Sunday morning, with sixty-two-year-old Jocelerme Privert, a former Senate leader and opponent of former President Michel Martelly, being chosen to fill the role on an interim basis.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 00:00
If handshakes are symbols of reconciliation, then it is historically fitting that Obama and Raul Castro greeted one another Tuesday in Johannesburg's FNB soccer stadium
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 00:00
I've received a number of questions about my recent writing on Venezuela, which I'd like to address here
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
Thatcher was a fierce Cold Warrior, and when it came to Chile never mustered quite the appropriate amount of compassion for the people Pinochet killed in the name of anti-Communism
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 00:00
Chavez's decision to go to Cuba for his medical treatment-and to continue ruling Venezuela from there, in characteristic defiance of his domestic political critics-caps a long public love affair.
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 00:00
To judge from current political trends, Brazil's conservationists should be prepared for a bitter battle.
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
The present in Latin America may be analogous to the nineteen-sixties, when the U.S. was mired in Vietnam and deeply unpopular internationally, and Fidel Castro and Che Guevara (another hero of Chavez’s) saw an opportunity to foment guerrilla insurgenci
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 00:00
For five decades, Castro was Cuba. Without him, what will Cuba become?