| LETTERS | 2 |
| TAKING NOTE: The Basic Food Position: 2008 | 4 |
| Rosen, Fred | |
| UPDATES: A New Era for Paraguay | 5 |
| Lambert, Peter | |
| Outsourcing the Iraq War: Mercenary Recruiters Turn to Latin America | 9 |
| Stoner, Eric | |
| Introduction | 13 |
| A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America | 14 |
| Smallman, Shawn | |
| Five Years Later: Judging Bush's AIDS Initiative | 18 |
| Smallman, Shawn | |
| AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model | 20 |
| Parker, Richard | |
| Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women Living With HIV | 25 |
| Castro, Arachu & Khawja, Yasmin & González-Núñez, Ida | |
| Colombia: AIDS in the Time of War | 30 |
| Ballvé, Teo | |
| Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s | 35 |
| González, M. Alfredo | |
| REVIEWS: An Occasion for Reflection, Squandered | 41 |
| Young, Cynthia | |
| MALA: Reading Bolivia in the U.S. Press | 49 |
| Gustafson, Bret |
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