Reflections on Contemporary Argentine Culture
The social and cultural project set in motion by the military regime has been consolidated under Menem. The cultural dislocation ...
Argentina Under Menem: The Aesthetics of Domination
ARGENTINA UNDER MENEM: THE AESTHETICS OF DOMINATION Under President Carlos Saul Menem's reactionary cultural revolution, Argentina has become more authoritarian ...
ARGENTINA Putting the “Perón” Back In
On the way to Buenos Aires from the airport at Ezeiza, two weeks before the May 14 elections, I asked ...
Shifting Alliances: Party Politics in Argentina
President Menem and his Peronist party have ruled Argentina unchallenged for nearly a decade. An electoral alliance that formed last ...
Menem’s Great Swindle: Convertibility, Inequality and the Neoliberal Shock
Punished by years of high inflation, Argentines enthusiastically supported Menem's anti-inflationary Convertibility Plan. The government, however, utilized the success of ...
Argentine Labor: A Movement in Crisis
Since the military took power in 1976, there has been a systematic effort to undermine the power of the labor ...