Polarized Politics in Chávez’s Venezuela
On December 15, 1999, as Venezuelans voted to ratify the country's new Constitution—a Constitution drafted by an elected Constituent Assembly ...
The Two Faces of Hugo Chávez
At dusk, Carlos Andrés Pérez walked off the plane that had brought him from Davos, Switzerland, and was surprised to ...
Refounding the Republic: The Political Project of Chavismo
"The corruption took all the money, so President Chávez has a serious problem," said an elderly man, one of hundreds ...
Peru’s Battle for Democracy
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was scheduled to appear at a victory celebration on the evening of May 28, after electoral ...
The Transformative Power of Art: Mexico’s Combat Cartoonist
Even though humor plays, or ought to play, an important role in daily life, few people consider the genre to ...
Magical Illusions or Revolutionary Magic? Chávez in Historical Context
Throughout his remarkable crusade to fashion himself as an anti-establishment political leader, Hugo Chávez has promised to bring about a ...
Book Review Essay: Critical Passions: Selected Essays By Jean Franco Edited by Mary Louise Pratt an...
Cultural criticism is an ambiguous and heterogeneous practice, defiant of disciplinary location and elusive of precise definition. As such, perhaps ...
