Hemisphere

CNN has discovered us at last. The network recently reported the extraordinary growth of the Spanish-language media in...

With the fall of the Berlin War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire in the late 1980s,...

The military regime that ousted democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power in a September 1991 coup ruled Haiti...

Guatemala's transition from military rule has been slow and difficult, at times traumatic. Today the country stands at...

Calls for strengthening democracy and combating poverty rivaled economic integration and trade-related issues for center stage at the...

Since the early 1980s, neoliberal views on economic policy have acquired increasing prominence throughout the world. The notion...

Within the next 10 to 20 years, the post-Cold War world will face a choice between two main...

In January 1998, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, with a coterie of provincial premiers, business-people and university...

Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans fled their countries in the 1980s, mostly for the United...

The United States' ethnic mosaic has a new and important ingredient: Salvadorans. The 1990 US census counted 565,000...

On a recent balmy evening in Miami Beach, hundreds of people gathered for a concert by a visiting...

Las girls van de compras para gourmet food It's Irene who first tells me to check out the...

The temperature exceeded 100 degrees as the sun pierced the earth. A fierce breeze lifted dust from hundreds...

Identity Crisis Still reeling from the civil rights movement's efforts to end the separate and unequal structure of...

Latinos constitute the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. Separated by regional differences yet united by...