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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Central America's Street Gangs Are Drawn into the World of Geopolitics

  In Central America, Washington is getting serious about a problem it helped to create. Adam Wolfe, of the PINR, examines the growing problem of organized criminal gangs in Central America, and how, in part American immigration policy has helped create the problem. Now, against a backdrop of resistance to CAFTA, and growing support for the policies of both Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, the gangs may provide a useful tool for the American administration to exert influence in Central America.

  
  
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - Laila Lalami interview

  Laila Lalami's debut novel Hope and other dangerous pursuits puts a human face on the issue of illegal immigration from North Africa to Europe. Without indulging in sentimentality or false optimism, Lalami has written a moving and deeply political novel. In interview with TMO she talks about the choices she made in the novel.

  
  
• From the Liberation of Rome, to the Armistice in Korea - General Mark Clark Interview (1975)

  In another 'snapshots from history' interview, broadcaster Richard Gilbert shares with Three Monkeys Online readers an interview with General Mark Clark conducted in 1975. Clark fought in WWI, was commander of allied forces in Italy during WWII, and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (Clark signed the armistice with China and North Korea). The interview looks back over Clark's long career, and offers his perspective on challenges facing America at the end of the 20th Century.

  
  
• Crisis in Caracas - but for whom? Hugo Chavez and the recall referendum in Venezuela.

  Venezuela, since the arrival of President Hugo Chavez, has seen an attempted coup, a general strike, and an opposition movement violently opposed to what has been termed the "Bolivarian Revolution". On August 15th the latest strategy to oust Chavez, the recall referendum, failed.Who is Chavez, and what issues are at stake in this divided country? Three Monkeys talks to Richard Gott, author of In the Shadow of the Liberator - Hugo Chavez and the transformation of Venezuela

  
  
• This is getting serious - The US anti-missile shield, seen from the Czech Republic.

  What has the Czech Republic to gain, or, equally importantly, to lose from the installation of the US anti-missile shield system on its soil? Questions posed by Padraig McGraith, who lives a mere bomb-blast away from Jínce u Příbrami, one of the proposed sites for the system.