Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Reearch (based in Santiago, Chile) and an editor at LeftWord Books (India), Inkani Books (South Africa), and La Trocha (Chile). He is the author of forty books, including (most recently) On Cuba (written with Noam Chomsky) and How the International Monetary Fund is Suffocating Africa. He is an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.