Anatomía de una Trampa
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While campaigning, many politicians in Latin America use the rhetoric of dignity and rectitude to sway voters. However, in power, they often forget electoral promises, abusing…
Category: Book Talk, Afro
Social Policies and Decentralization in Cuba
From my snapshot views of Cuba in ve visits over the years, two eye-opening moments stand out. In 1980, after visiting one workplace after another where union and management…
Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context
When I was running a newspaper bureau in Nicaragua, I once went to look for my housekeeper to ask where we kept something or other. She wasn’t there, but her TV was on…
Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
Sergio Delgado’s brilliant book, Delirious Consumption, performs a truly radical feat of locating anti-capitalist resistance precisely in the heart of the beast, in consumer culture…
