VENEZUELA: CONTINUITY BY TRIAL AND ERROR
With instability a real risk, can Chávez' successors continue his pragmatic advances?
LATIN AMERICA: ALBA WITHOUT CHAVEZ
ALBA was Hugo Chávez' pet project. Will it survive him, and will Correa, Morales and the other leaders be able to carry out his vision?
CHAVEZ NO MORE
LAB Editor Javier Farje, who was recently in Caracas, writes from Buenos Aires about Hugo Chávez and his legacy.
GUATEMALA: RIOS MONTT’S INTERNATIONAL BACKERS MUST ANSWER
The Reagan administration and other international actors knew what Rios Montt was doing and backed him. It's time for international impunity to end.
PUERTO RICO: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Independence, statehood or status quo: Puerto Ricans cannot decide
HONDURAS: THE WAR IN AGUAN
Two more subsistence farmers have been killed in the violence relating to land ownership in the Aguan region of northern Honduras.
HONDURAS: THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE
Violent deaths in Honduras have spiked since the 2009 coup against President Zelaya. Matt Kennard asks the US ambassador and others for their views on the causes of the violence and what needs to be done to solve the problem.
VENEZUELA: NO RETURN TO THE ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’
Larry Birns and Frederick B. Mills, from COHA, warn Washington against trying to take advantage of any post-Chavez political turmoil to try to reimpose neo-liberalism.
A Hall of Shame for Venezuelan Elections Coverage
Keane Bhatt analyses the falsehoods published by international media organisations during the Venezuelan election campaign.
Chávez Election Not So Different from the Rest of South America
Hugo Chávez's latest victory is just one of several re-elections of left-wing governments in South America, says Mark Weisbrot.