Henry Ford’s Tropical Folly
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2009), 432 pp., $27.50 ...
Henry Fords Tropical Folly
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2009), 432 pp., $27.50 ...
Remembering Che and The Guevaras
My grandfather, before he died, told me his own repertoire of stories about the Che Guevara he knew, when Che ...
Culture at the ‘Margins’
The protagonists of tomorrow are people who are off-line, somehow off the grid, "unsophisticated" or simply unimpressed by the general ...
Learning from Latin America’s Media Pirates
Some Brazilian film critics have labeled the movie "fascist". It's called Tropa de Elite and focuses on the ultra-violent tactics ...
A New Wave of Anti-Americanism
Anti-americanism is again becoming a force to be reckoned with in Latin America. Throughout the 1990s, anti-Americanism was generally latent ...
The Battle of Latino Media
If anyone ever sets out to write a history of Latino media in the United States, he or she could ...
Brazil’s New Eye on the Amazon
The gleaming military installation rises from the patchy forests surrounding Belém, a city of one million people in Brazils eastern ...
Mega-Dams in the Amazon: Brazil’s Three Gorges?
The Madeira River in western Brazil is the Amazon's longest tributary and one of the best-preserved tropical waterways and jungle ...
On Revolutions, Civil War and Dictators: The Work of Ryszard Kapuscinski
These days it seems journalists have become less popular than lawyers. The widespread perception of journalism is that it is ...
Tropicália: Portrait of a Revolution
It was exactly forty years ago that the musical revolution that came to be known as Tropicália was introduced to ...
