...Pedro Cabán Hurricane Maria laid bare the painful reality that Puerto Rico is an inconsequential American territory inhabited by second-class US citizens. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Pedro Cabán Puerto Rico Caribbean...

...Frank J. Korom A new book seeks to explain how diaspora cultures interact to form new creole blends. From London to the Caribbean, carnival season can be a mashup of politics and heritage. Encountering Difference: Diasporic Traces, Creolizing Spaces , by Robin Cohen and Olivia...

... Brazil Venezuela regionalism Luis Inácio Lula da Silva Organization American States Union South American Nations Community Latin American Caribbean Nations Mercosur Hugo Chávez United States 56 Brazil s rise, coupled with the diminished influence of the United States and the...

...Eric Farnsworth Beijing offers to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean the opportunity to forge a path independent of the United States and liberal economic orthodoxy. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California 56 Beijing offers...

... Caribbean Brazil fertility Mexico Colombia Argentina mortality 75 The next 40 years . . . are projected to witness a veritable explosion in the number and proportion of older people in the region. Prepared or Not, Latin America Faces the Challenge of Aging GeoRGe w. leeSon The world is aging at...

... Guardiola-Rivera . Bloomsbury Press , 2010 . © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Latin America Oscar Guardiola-Rivera Community Latin American Caribbean States Brazil Venezuela 83 In his 1983 book The Price of Power...

...Sidney Weintraub All Latin American and Caribbean countries will be hard pressed to maintain satisfactory rates of GDP growth during the next two years, and perhaps longer. © 2009 Current History. All rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California Latin America...