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Identity formation in Latin America

Efe Can Gurcan (Montreal): New Regionalisms and Radical Identity Formation in Latin America: Towards an “Alter-global” Paradigm. Miguel Angel Nino-Zarazua (CPRC): Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades and the Emergence of Social Assistance in Latin America. From LRB, Perry Anderson on Lula’s Brazil. Can a land route rival the Panama Canal? China and Colombia are talking about building 250 miles of railroad to link Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Narco-War Dispatch: The Gulf Cartel releases a brutal video threat against the Zetas. The Plunder of South America: An interview with Andres Dimitriu, co-director of Theomai, an academic journal marked by, among other concerns, resistance to neoliberalism. A Peruvian tomb discovery is deemed "as important as Machu Picchu". Richard Andre on the invisible war against Afro-Colombians. Brazil town’s Nazi twin mystery solved: Why the village of Candido Godoi has so many twins and why Nazis had nothing to do with it. States of Exception: Valerie Kaussen on Haiti’s IDP camps. The Island People: Joshua Foer on the seventh hidden wonder of South America. Brazil’s Potential in the Rousseff Era: Is Brazil’s recent success sustainable over the coming decade? America's backyard is no longer an afterthought — or Washington's to claim. Cano Cristales is the most beautiful, undiscovered river in South America. A review of Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500 - 1920 by Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben. Why Daniel Ortega will go on ruling Nicaragua: It's the economy, stupid — the erstwhile Marxist commandante is presiding over the fastest growing one in Central America. Barbers and Barbarians: Argentina is one of the places in the world where the hairdo of European “civilization” has most earnestly (and anxiously) been worn.