The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela
In both Cuba and Venezuela, the revolutionary imagination has been free to develop in the domain of culture, preserving the ...
Revolutionary Legacies in the 21st Century
On the occasion of the Cuban Revolution’s 50th anniversary, this Report examines legacies of revolution throughout Latin America. Besides the ...
Socially Dangerous: Misrepresenting Cuba’s Punk Rock Trial
In August the Cuban authorities briefly detained a musician, Gorki Águila, 40, and charged him with “social dangerousness,” a crime ...
Latin America and Globalization, Reconsidered
Latin America and Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson, 2008, Johns Hopkins University Press, 412 pp., $55, Hardcover William I ...
Beyond Latin America’s ‘Two Lefts’
Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left by Nikolas Kozloff, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 256 pp., $26.95, Hardcover ...
Reading ‘The Black Jacobins,’ Seven Decades Later
C.L.R. James’s study of the Haitian Revolution, first published in 1938, remains a touchstone of debate. A founding text in ...
Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed
Daniel Ortega’s presidency, the “second stage of the Sandinista Revolution,” as he called it, has been characterized by sectarianism, authoritarianism, ...
Mexico’s Unspent Revolutionary Legacies: An Interview With Historian Alan Knight
Alan Knight, a specialist on the Mexican Revolution, discusses revolutionary icons, the competing claims to revolutionary legitimacy by contemporary political ...
