  After Julian Assange invited a group of leading Latin American
journalists to London and gave them thousands of internal
documents from the US State Department, the media and political
landscape in Latin America was forever changed. From
confirmation of the United States’s deep involvement in the drug
war in Mexico and its efforts to alienate Venezuela’s Hugo
Chavez, to national governments conspiring with foreign
multinationals to alter safety regulations, the cables revealed
a corrupt world of diplomacy, long suspected, but rarely
glimpsed.  Peter Kornbluh, guest editor of this week’s double-
issue about WikiLeaks and Latin America, speaks with Associate
Editor Liliana Segura about how “cablegate” rocked the region,
and has inspired a new generation of investigative journalists.
—Max Rivlin-Nadler