In the third installment on Orwell’s 1984 and totalitarianism, Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno outlines the themes of 1984.
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Israel Centeno describes George Orwell’s difficulties finding a publisher for Animal Farm and how that bitterness led to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno presents the first of a short series of articles concerning two paradigmatic novels that address the issue of a future without freedom.
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In this week’s Night Watch, writer Israel Centeno examines the importance of discourse on the modernization of the Latin American states.
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno analyses Venezuela’s recent presidential election and compares the strategies of Chávez and Capriles.
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno presents a searing indictment of media over-saturation and the desensitization it produces.
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Israel Centeno examines the changes that Hugo Chávez has made to Venezuela’s government, including constitutional revisions, and wonders whether, even with a change in leadership, Venezuela can become a democratic state.
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In this week’s column, Venezuelan author Israel Centeno issues a sharp critique to the Venice Biennale – and, by extension, the European left – for awarding the Golden Lion prize to the Tower of David, a 45-story “shantytown” project in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Is any one person in control of Venezuela? Can the PetroState ever be changed? These are the questions Israel Centeno explores in this week’s Night Watch.
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Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno draws troubling comparisons between the government-tolerated militias in Venezuela and Benito Mussolini’s shock troops. These armed militias are alleged to be responsible for the growing number of violent crimes.
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