Considers the meaning of feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the Methodological and Thematic Commission of the 12th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting, the event presents an opportunity to explore the routes that will enable feminism to move forward. Decribes feminism in the Latin American and Caribbean regions as plural and diverse.
An essay on the gendered aspects of war and revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua. According to the author, militarized violence in these states was hierarchical and ultimately created alternative privileged masculinities despite revolutionary movements' ideological commitments to equality. Details related to racial and gender binaries are also presented.
A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. The author discusses the conceptualization of blackness in the Dominican Republic.
Argues that China has gained influence in multilateral institutions, prompting them toward greater acceptance of public spending in developing countries and that recent developments in Cuba show that China is actively encouraging the Western hemisphere's only communist country to liberalize its economy. China sits at the crossroads of these local and global developments, prompting Cuba toward rapprochement with international norms even as it works to reform them.
Focuses on the report released by the Latin American and Caribbean office of the International Lesbian, Trans, Gay, Bisexual and Intersex Association on June 28, 2011. The existence of lesbian and bisexual women living with human immunodeficiency virus in several Latin American and Caribbean nations was established by the report.
Focuses on calls by the Campaign for Education Free from Sexism and Discrimination for the human right to free, secular, public education for all in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
Countries in this region have been able to maintain good growth rates over recent years; however the outlook for inflation has worsened and the area's dependence on foreign borrowing has grown markedly. The ability of these countries to adjust in the future will depend critically on good economic management.
