On migration and neoliberalism/free trade

NPR's recent series on migration
Latinos in the U.S. meatpacking industry, from the Migration Policy Institute
Teenagers reflect on growing up between Chicago and Durango, Mexico, with their former fourth-grade teacher
An interview with a leading Mexican maquiladora activist
A 2002 agreement between a Taiwan-based company and workers in El Salvador
The threat of Chinese labor to Central American maquiladoras

Hugo Chavez

This blogger doesn't like him...
This one does
Alma Guillermoprieto has mixed feelings (Raynor subscribes to the NY Review of Books, have your ID handy)

Miscellaneous links of interest

Julia Sweig commenting last fall on the UN's Latin America seat on the Security Council
An argument against Guatemala's nomination to the seat (which eventually went to Panama)
U.S. foreign policy in Central America in the '80s and in Iraq today
Mexico quietly released the long-promised report on its own "Dirty War" last fall
Great aerial photos of Mexico City!!