Evan Lazerowitz (Georgetown): The Rapid Fall of an Empire: How Hernan Cortes and His Small Band of Brothers Felled a Mighty Empire. Dante Figueroa (American): Twenty-One Theses on the Legal Legacy of the French Revolution in Latin America. Karen E. Bravo (Indiana): Challenges to Caribbean Economic Sovereignty in a Globalizing World. Ludovic Hennebel (ULB): The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Ambassador of Universalism. Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes (Victoria): Indigenous Political Representation: Latin America and International Human Rights Law. From DRB, Tom Hennigan on Peronism and the decline of Argentina. Nicholas Fromherz on the rise and fall of Bolivia's Evo Morales: How South America's first indigenous president lost his way. A review of Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 by Alexandra Delano. Narco Economics: A new study that could help Mexico win its war on drug traffickers. Cuba wants the 50-year-old U.S. economic blockade to be lifted, but its immediate priority is securing the release of the “Cuban Five”. Country for Old Men: Dissident Yoani Sanchez reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papa Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief. Bigger than Coelho: Brazil’s star preacher Marcelo Rossi is the country’s new best-selling author of fuzzy, feel-good spirituality. Once the world's largest Catholic nation, Brazil sees its people leave the fold. Where are Latin America’s terrorists? Richard Weitz wonders. Poverty in Latin America is at its lowest level in 20 years— not bad. In North v. South, South wins this time: A new regional bloc has Latin America looking inward. US courts Latin America: Now that Iraq and Afghanistan are over, it's back to business in Latin America.
