Israel Centeno explores the rise to power of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, “a man who has been molded in Hugo Chávez’s shadow and who has no limits.”
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In this week’s Revolution Evening Post Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the potential effects of Cuba’s new free-trade areas on U.S.-Cuba relations.
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Blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo reveals how the devastation wrought on Cuba by Hurricane Sandy brought together Cuban citizens on both sides of the political spectrum.
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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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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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Writer Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how journalists, not writers and intellectuals, are the new targets of the powerful elite. In Latin America, pursuing investigative journalism, like that of Lydia Cacho, can be a death sentence.
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Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s forthcoming novel The Polish Boxer is expected in October. Word Without Borders is appealing to readers to help bring Halfon to New York and London for a series of readings geared to high school students. We share a video of Halfon talking about his new novel.
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In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the effects that Spain’s financial crisis will have on Latin American industry, development, and immigration.
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In this week’s Corkscrew novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya reviews The Civilization of Entertainment, a collection of essays by Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya compares the recent impeachment of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo to the ousting of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and asks “Who’s next?”
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