Mike Gatehouse
On 4 April 2011, more than 70 adults returned to the Las Pavas ranch (Department of Bolívar), from which they were displaced in July 2009, following various returns and subsequent forced displacements.
Eduardo Lander, a distinguisled Venezuelan academic, argues that the Venezuelan revolution must have its own identity.
Fifty years ago, an invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the CIA, failed and moved the island towards a socialist system.
At the end of December, the first popular uprising in the region against a government of the left took place in Bolivia. It was caused by an excessive increase in the price of fuels.
The author analyses the serious shortage of drinnking water in one of Bolivia's biggest cities.
The right in Bolivia is regrouping and using methods than can hardly be considered democratic, in its attempts to destabilise Evo Morales's government.
The author argues that the increase in the prices of fuel in Bolivia could put in jeopardy President Evo Morales' reforms.
The absence of more open social policies and real citizen participation are some of the concerns being debated in the run-up to the Sixth Congress of the ruling Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in April.
Ronel Thelusmond is the director of the technical division of the National Institute for the Application of Agrarian Reform (INARA), which is part of the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture.
As Haiti faces political pressures from the US and second round elections and the unkown possibility of Duvalier's agenda Bell discusses the history of resistance in Haiti.