• From the President by Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida

On The Profession

• A Short, Sad History of Cuban-American Academic Collaboration Since 1997 by Stanley N. Katz
• Cuba and the United States: New Opportunities for Academic Diplomacy by Milagros Martínez Reinosa

Debates

• Cocaine’s Blowback North: A Pre-History of Mexican Drug Violence by Paul Gootenberg
• Drug Control Policy: What the United States Can Learn from Latin America by Coletta A. Youngers
• Some Comments on Drug-Fueled Violence in Latin America by Mark Ungar

On LASA2012

• Reservation Form for the LASA2012 Book Exhibit
• Film Festival and Exhibit LASA2012

Calling All Members

• Nominations Invited: Bryce Wood Book Award; Premio Iberoamericano Book Award; LASA Media Award; LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship; LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award; Call for Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award Nominations

News from LASA

• Membership Report 2010

Letter to the Editor

• The Obama Initiative by Ronald H. Chilcote

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