Is Bukele Wrapping Himself in the Chinese Mantle?
Los intereses de China en la región crecen y podría darse el caso de que Beijing termine como aliado de Bukele y Ortega,
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Rafael Rojas
Nicaragua’s Ministry of Celestial Bodies
Ortega’s government has created a “Secretariat for Matters of Extraterrestrial Space, the Moon and other Celestial Bodies”. That’s no joke!
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The New Feminism in Latin America
What is new about feminism is the rigor of a gender perspective and the intensity of a globalized and connected 21 century youth.
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Myanmar Coup: a Metaphor for Post-Truth Politics
The US made Myanmar a symbol of democratization and Obama even went so far as presenting this country as an example for Cuba.
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Allende’s Chilean Road to Socialism 50 Years On
The key to the “Chilean road to Socialism” was social reforms without abandoning the constitutional framework.
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Trump and Latin America
The four years of the chaotic and terrible Trump government adopted a posture that revived the worst of Cold War anti-communism.
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False Facts: The Cuban Gov. Campaign against Dissidents
The new communities of activists, journalists, artists and intellectuals grow in accordance with civil society itself and the private sector.
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Dialogues and Monologues in Cuba
For a few hours, we saw the face of a critical Cuban youth that wants their country’s democratization without sacrificing sovereignty.
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Cuba’s Repressive and Cellular Fever
The temperature of the repression in Cuba has risen like a fever during the days of the pandemic. It’s a systematic, cellular fever.
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Mistakes Made by Reviewer Samuel Farber
Every historian makes mistakes. Historian Samuel Farber makes very few and that’s why his books, such as The Origins of the Cuban Revolution (2006) are compulsory reading texts in contemporary historiography. However, I’m afraid I can’t say the same thing about Samuel Farber as a reviewer.
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