For much of the developing world, concerned now with the implications of a ‘New American Century’ – presumably all around the world this time – Latin America has much to teach. Since the colonies of the western hemisphere, from Mexico south, emerged from that status to become independent...

After achieving independence and limited economic self-assertion in the sixties and seventies, most Caribbean states have been reabsorbed by a now globalized neocolonial system. The “structural adjustment” exacted in the process has exacerbated hardship and inequality generally and has been...