Oil Madness - The American Scholar, Spring 2007 Boom times for Venezuela and its autocratic president full article... On the Campaign Trail in Venezuela - Slate, December 2006 President Hugo Chavez is reelected--but he may not be president for life... full article... On the Campaign Trail in Nicaragua - Slate, November 2006 Daniel Ortega makes a stunning comeback... full article... On the Campaign Trail in Peru - Slate, June 2006 Alan Garcia nabs another term in the presidential mansion--and an opportunity to rewrite his legacy... full article... Voice of America - Slate, May 2006 The Spanish-language DJs Behind the New Wave of Latino Activism full article... A Woman's Place is in the Presidential Mansion - Slate, January 2006 What's behind the rise of female politicians in Latin America? full article... History's warning to Hugo Chavez - Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2007 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was just sworn in for a third term, is acting like a supremely confident leader... full article... U.S. border arguments wake the neighbors - Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2006 There has been no shortage of political prognosticating over how the immigration debate in Congress could affect the 2006 midterm elections and the 2008 presidential ambitions of various U.S. senators... full article... Orlando full of grace - The Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 2006 It's a frigid winter morning, but the fan installed of the wall of Orlando Tobon's miniscule office in Jackson Heights, Queens is going full blast... full article... Marielitos' Way - New York Time sBook Review, May 15, 2005 Mirta Ojito revisits the Cuban exodus that brought her family to America. Finding Manana, a memoir of a Cuban Exodus full article... Washington Diarist: Peaceful Protest - The New Republic, May 20, 2002 When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was deposed last month - and then reinstalled two days later - the sound of banging pots and pans filled the streets of Caracas... full article...