Uruguay: Pepe Mujica, hero, populist, or demagogue?
President Mujica's humble life and style have been widely popular, but not everyone likes or respects him. Javier Farje reports from Montevideo.
Alan García – the broken leader
In 1980, I was working for small weekly newspaper in my native Peru
called Kausachum, a quechua word that means ‘Long life’. The editor was
Augusto...
Cuba: The new man or the new economy?
Cuba's main source of overseas earnings is now the work done by its doctors and medical professionals writes LAB editor Javier Farje from Havana.
The Cuba Five — when five minus two makes Five
Two of the Cuban Five - René González and Fernando González - are back in Cuba but their thoughts are still with their imprisoned compatriots. Lab editor Javier Farje writes from Havana.
Nicaragua: the never ending hope
In this blog from Managua, LAB editor Javier Farje, writes about the trials and tribulation of the Sandinistas who are not prepared to lay down the weapon of hope.
VENEZUELA 3: DON’T MESS WITH BOLIVAR
This is a government obsessed with Simón Bolivar, writes Javier, in his last post from the country.
Chile: the remnants of dictatorship are slow to fade
Younger Chileans seem remarkably unbothered by the continuation of a constitution framed under the dictatorship.
Venezuela: the struggle to preserve a dream
Former LAB editor Javier Farje visited Caracas recently and explored communities and walked the streets of the Venezuelan capital to find a people who are not prepared to give up just yet.
Mexico: Is the “new” PRI worse than the “old” one?
It will soon be two years since the PRI returned to power and people from different walks of life are already fed up with the lack of progress in the economy and education. LAB editor Javier Farje reports from Mexico City
PUERTO RICO: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Independence, statehood or status quo: Puerto Ricans cannot decide