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Berkeley
Review of Latin American Studies
Spring 2009
Contents
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Comment
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Soap with the image of Jesus Malverde, the "patron saint" of narcotraffickers.
(photo by David Argen) |
The Narcovirus
Alma Guillermoprieto, listed among the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy magazine, explores the narcocultura spawned by Mexico’s drug wars.
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Soldiers march across the Zócalo in Mexico City.
(photo: darkulino tuskino) |
State of Siege
Mexican professor and columnist Denise Dresser analyzes the links between drug violence, corruption in the Mexican government and demand for narcotics in the U.S.
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A murder scene at the Ciudad Juarez Costco.
(photo from Getty Images) |
First, Do Less Harm
Graduate student Ben Lessing reflects on Drug Policy Alliance founder Ethan Nadelmann’s take on the drug wars.
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A future hotbed of solar power? The Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
(photo: Carly Lyddiard) |
Growing Clean
Professor Harley Shaiken interviews former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos on the role of clean energy in Chile’s future development.
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The Lehman Bros building on the day the company filed for bankruptcy. (Photo: James Chen) |
Structural Problems or Cyclical Downturn?
Professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich argues that structural problems underlie the current economic downturn.
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Botero Returns to Berkeley |
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Botero signs autographs following his public talk at Berkeley in 2007. (photo by Jan Sturmann) |
Berkeley Bears Witness
Professor Thomas Laqueur reflects on the impact that the donation of Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib series of paintings and drawings will have on the UC Berkeley campus.
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Fernando Botero, "Contortionist,"
103 x 84 cm, 2007, oil on canvas.
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Circus
This section highlights Fernando Botero’s latest series of paintings, Circus, and is introduced by Professor Beatriz Manz’ interview with the artist.
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Presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile and
Barack Obama.
(photo courtesy of www.presidencia.cl) |
Latin America Should Bet on Energy
Chile’s President Ricardo Lagos (2000-06) argues that the time is right for Latin America to make the move toward alternative energy in this op-ed piece.
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La ventosa, Latin America's largest windfarm, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
(Photo: Daniel Bobadilla) |
Greener Americas
Professor Harley Shaiken proposes the creation of an “Alliance for Green Prosperity” that would build on President Obama’s ideas to jumpstart growth and green development in the hemisphere.
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Néstor Kirchner transfers the presidential staff to his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
(photo courtesy of casarosada.gov.ar. |
His and Hers Politics
Argentine journalist Roberto Guareschi analyzes the state of the Kirchner administration during the run-up to the June 28, 2009, parliamentary elections.
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Peruvian soldiers guard the Argentine natural gas concession Techint.
(Photo from Associated Press.) |
Army for Rent, Terms Negotiable
Professor Maiah Jaskoski of the Naval Postgraduate School investigates the influence of the private sector on the armies of Ecuador and Peru.
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A man stands next to murals in
San Francisco's Mission District.
(photo by Tino Soriano) |
Latino Migration and U.S. Foreign Policy
Professor Lisa García Bedolla outlines the history of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and its influence on migration.
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President Calderón of Mexico distributes an Oportunidades check.
(Photo courtesy of presidencia.gob.mx) |
Poverty Programs, Political Opportunities?
Graduate student Emily Curran reports on Professor Beatriz Magaloni’s CLAS talk on the electoral returns to welfare spending in Mexico.
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A Mexican bride.
(photo by Alejandro Mejía-Greene) |
Not Going to the Chapel: Women in Migrant-Sending Communities
Graduate student Sarah Lynn Lopez discusses Jorge Bravo’s CLAS talk on the impact of the out-migration males on Mexican women.
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Carlos Luján Martínex shows off his specialty, Spaghetti a lo Luján.
(Photo by Claudia Alva) |
Cafetín El Moshe: Location, Location…
Novelist Daniel Alarcón takes lunch in a high-security Peruvian prison.
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Chico Simões performs mamulengo,
accompanied by Jeremias Zunguze.
(photo by Beth Perry) |
Mamulengo
Brazilian puppeteer Chico Simões describes his passion for the art of mamulengo.
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Berkeley
Review of Latin American Studies
Fall 2008
Contents
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Comment
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Rolling out the world's largest solar roof in Zaragoza, Spain. (Photo: © GM Corp.) |
Jumpstarting the Americas
Chair Harley Shaiken describes the “Alternative Energy and the Americas” conference, held by CLAS in Detroit this past September, and its importance at this time of rapid economic and technological change.
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President Michelle Bachelet of Chile receives the Berkeley Medal.
(photo: Peg Skorpinski) |
Bachelet Energizes Berkeley
Graduate student Taylor Boas reports on Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s June visit to Berkeley.
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Costa Rican flora.
(photo: Matthijs Rouw) |
The Carbon Neutrality Challenge
Roberto Dobles, the Costa Rican Minister of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications, describes his country’s efforts to become carbon neutral by 2021.
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Pro-autonomy marchers demonstrate in Guayaquil, January 2008..
(photo: Charlie Perez) |
Power to the Left, Autonomy for the Right?
Professor Kent Eaton compares the autonomy movements of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and Guayas, Ecuador.
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Frida Kahlo painting during her stay in Detroit.
(photo: © 1932 The Detroit Institute of Arts.) |
The Hybrid Sources of Frida Kahlo
John Zarobell, the Coordinating Curator for the Frida Kahlo exhibit held recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, analyzes the Mexican painter’s influences.
Includes a selection of Kahlo's work from the recent exhibition.
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The “Forum for a Transparent Oaxaca” focused on
improving public access to government information in Oaxaca. (Photo: Alicia Huerta Cortez).
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Mexico’s Right-to-Know Reforms
Professor Jonathan Fox tests the effectiveness of Mexico’s federal transparency reforms.
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Election 2008: Commentaries |
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Barack Obama campaigning in 2008.
(photo from Associated Press) |
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Monroe No More?
Argentine journalist Roberto Guareschi outlines the challenges facing the Obama administration in Latin America.
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Southern Exposure
Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell takes a deeper look at the controversies surrounding the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, the one South American issue mentioned during the U.S. presidential debates.
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The Japanese parliament building looms protectively over the Toyopet and its future, 1956.
(photo by Asa-moya) |
Develop as We Say, Not as We Did
Professor Peter Evans interviews Ha-Joon Chang, the author of Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.
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Tractors line Route 14 in Gualeguaychú, Argentina, during a piquete.
(Photo: Neal Richardson) |
Farmers at the Barricades
Graduate student Neal Richardson takes a close look at the recent struggle by Argentina’s rural sector to overturn export tax hikes imposed by the Fernández de Kirchner administration.
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Ruth Cardoso.
(photo: Photo by Getúlio Gurgel / Acervo Pr. F.H.Cardoso.) |
Remembering Ruth Cardoso
Professor Teresa Caldeira pays homage to her friend and mentor, the anthropologist and former first lady of Brazil, Ruth Cardoso.
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The house Elizabeth Bishop shared with Lota de Macedo Soares on the Fazenda Samambaia.
(Photo by Katrina Dodson.) |
Hideaway/Song for the Rainy Season
Graduate student Katrina Dodson provides background to a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet who spent a substantial portion of her life in Brazil.
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Spring 2008
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Comment
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·U.S-Mexico ·Ovshinsky ·More |
Special
Section:
The U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum 2008
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Torre
Mayor and Diana, Avenida de la Reforma,
Mexico City.
(photo: Omar Hernández)
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The
U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum brings together diverse
participants from both sides of the border in
a series of conferences that seek to illuminate
the U.S.-Mexico relationship.
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U.S.
Representative Linda Sánchez (left)
and Mexican Senator Adriana González
Carillo at the Forum in Mexico City.
(photo: Antonio del Valle) |
Bridges
or Barriers?
Catha
Worthman provides an overview of the highlights
of the 2008 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum in
Mexico City.
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North
America at night.
(photo: courtesy of NASA) |
Energy
Shock
UC
Berkeley professor Daniel Kammen outlines the energy
challenges facing North America and the world in the
coming decades.
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Solar
panel in Tulum, Mexico.
(photo: Bryan J. Busch) |
Alternative
Energy
Mexico
City’s Minister of the Environment, Martha Delgado,
argues that the Mexican energy debate should be broadened
to include both efficiency and alternatives to petroleum.
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A
Pemex station in Ojos Negros, Baja California.
(photo:
Lee Panich) |
Reforming
Pemex
Cuauhtémoc
Cárdenas weighs in with his ideas for reforming
Pemex.
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The
Tijuana-San Diego border.
(photo: Bisayan lady) |
Immigration
Reform: A Bitter Tide Begins to Ebb
Tamar
Jacoby analyzes the current political context for immigration
reform in the United States.
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The
Mexican consulate in Los Angeles.
(photo:
César Octavio López
Natarén) |
Migrant
Voices
Futures
Forum co-convener Rafael Fernández de Castro
reports on the requests of migrants during Mexican
President Felipe Calderón’s multi-city
trip to the United States.
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Yolanda
Araujo signals her status at a protest.
(photo: Jeffrey Long)
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A Mexico
in the United States?
Maria
Echaveste responds to Prof. Fernández de Castro’s
report from a U.S. policy perspective.
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Foreclosure
bus tours in San Diego, California.
(photo:
Cory Doctorow) |
When
the U.S.
Catches a Cold…
Héctor
Rangel Domene, Chairman of the Board of Directors
of BBVA Bancomer, provides an analysis of Mexico’s
current economic position.
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Police
patrol in Tijuana.
(photo from Associated Press)
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Violence
and Drugs: Divide, Then Conquer?
Professor
Frank E. Zimring puts forth an innovative proposal
for addressing Mexico’s drug, violence and corruption
problems.
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Relatives
mourn the slain editor of a Veracruz paper.
(photo
from Associated Press) |
Life,
Death and Journalism on the Border
Ricardo
Sandoval brings to life the dangers facing journalists
reporting on the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Dean Christopher
Edley Jr. at the Forum.
(photo:
Antonio del Valle) |
Priorities
for the Next President
Law
School Dean Christopher Edley Jr. outlines the
pressing challenges facing the incoming U.S. president.
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Special
Section: Stan Ovshinsky
·U.S-Mexico ·Ovshinsky ·More |
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Solar
flares.
(photo: courtesy of NASA) |
A
Revolution Fueled by the Sun
Ground-breaking
scientist Stanford Ovshinsky makes his case for “the
hydrogen loop” during his CLAS talk reported
on by graduate student Avery Cohn.
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Stan
Ovshinsky.
(photo: Matty Nematollahi) |
Bienenstock
on Ovshinsky
In
this excerpt from Arthur Bienenstock’s introduction
to Stanford Ovshinsky’s Berkeley talk, the noted
scientist and president of the American Physical Society
enumerates Ovshinsky’s
many contributions to science and technology.
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Stan
and Iris Ovshinsky diagram the hydrogen loop.
(photo courtesy of Stanford R. Ovshinsky) |
The
Einstein of Alternative Energy?
Harley
Shaiken provides a personal look at noted scientist
Stanford Ovshinsky.
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·U.S-Mexico ·Ovshinsky ·More |
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Orozco paints
Quetzalcoatl.
(Photo: Dartmouth College Library) |
Violent
Visions in a Silent Space
Jacquelynn
Baas documents the history of how José Clemente
Orozco’s powerful murals came to be painted
on the Dartmouth campus.
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"Cortez
and the Cross" detail, panel 13 of "The
Epic of American Civilization."
(photo: Trustees of Dartmouth College) |
‘The
Epic of American Civilization’
Selections
from “The Epic of American Civilization,” José Clemente
Orozco’s mural cycle on the Dartmouth campus.
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Salt
collection in Peru.
(photo: Dave Lansley) |
Wealth
and Poverty in Latin
America
Peruvian
President Alejandro Toledo (2001–06) discusses
the slow progress of Latin American poverty-reduction
despite the region’s macroeconomic gains
in his CLAS talk reported on by graduate student
Maiah Jaskoski.
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A
line forms for milk rations in Venezuela.
(photo: Rafael Navarro) |
Venezuela’s
Prospects for Democracy
Teodoro
Petkoff argues that Venezuela “combines the anatomy
of a democratic regime with the physiology of an authoritarian
one” in his CLAS talk covered by graduate student
Taylor Boas.
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Intellectuals
and Totalitarianism
In
this excerpt from the question and answer session following
his talk, Teodoro Petkoff discusses the disturbing
tendency of intellectuals to support totalitarian regimes.
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An
internet bodega in Guatemala.
(photo: Doug Cadmus) |
Expectations
Collide With Reality
Chilean
Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés provides an analysis
of the trajectory of Latin American democracies in
his public talk reported on by graduate student Taylor
Boas.
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Rollout
of a new Embraer jet.
(photo courtesy of Embraer) |
Innovate
Locally, Compete Globally
Glauco
Arbix argues that top-tier Brazilian firms are now
able to compete internationally with medium- and high-technology
goods in his CLAS talk covered by graduate student
Daniel I. Buch.
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"Vintage" refrigerators
loaded onto a truck.
(Photo: Mónica González) |
A
New ‘Cold War’?
Graduate
student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient
Mónica González describes the day
Cubans said goodbye to their 20th century refrigerators.
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Church
of La Merced, Antigua, Guatemala.
(photo: Doron Derek Laor) |
History
Into Fiction
Graduate
student and novelist Sylvia Sellers-García
recounts the circumstances that inspired her first
novel: When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep.
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Oil
slick on a tributary of Ecuador's Napo river.
(Photo: 00rini Hartmann) |
Excerpt
from ‘State of the Planet’
In
this excerpt from “State of the Planet” by
UC Berkeley professor and Pulitzer-prizewinner Robert
Hass, the poet describes an oil-slicked riverscape
in Tena , Ecuador .
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Comment
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President
Ricardo Lagos inaugurates a new metro line
in 2005.
(photo: Daniel Ebensperger)
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Democracy
and the Chilean Miracle
Manuel
Castells explores development success in Chile through
the theoretical lens of the "democratic liberal
inclusive model."
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Bas-relief
of "Agriculture" at the
US Department of Commerce.
(photo: takomabibelot) |
Agriculture
and Development: The Latin American Difference
UC
Berkeley Professors Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth
Sadoulet, core team members of the 2008 World
Development Report, point to ways agriculture
can be better used as a development instrument.
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Les
Eclaireurs Lighthouse, Ushuaia, Argentina. (photo:
Ricardo Martins) |
Argentina:
Charting the Course
Argentine
Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana discusses the plans
and goals of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s
new administration with CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken.
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Ballot
box during Mexico's 2006 election.
(photo:
Jubilo Haku) |
Firm
Steps on Uncertain Ground
CLAS
Visiting Scholar Sergio Aguayo analyzes the threat
of "Billionaires, Governors and Drug Lords" to
democracy and stability in Mexico against the backdrop
of the contentious 2006 election.
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Juan
Gabriel Valdés with then-UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
(photo: Eskinder Debebe/UN) |
Latin
American Voices:
Juan Gabriel Valdés
Chile's
Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council
(2000-03) and former head of the UN mission in Haiti
shares his perspective on U.S. involvement in Iraq.
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A
Zapotec campesino.
(photo: Gabriela Zamorano) |
Fifty
Years: From Autonomy to Dependence
UC
Berkeley Professor Laura Nader and San José State
Professor Roberto González describe the erosion
of autonomy in Talea, a mountainous rural village
in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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A curandera and
patient.
(photo: Kiki Arnal) |
The
Rincón Zapotec: People of Talea
A
photo essay on the people of Talea.
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Presidents
Hugo Chávez (left) and Álvaro
Uribe at an August 2007 summit.
(photo:
AFP/Getty Images) |
The
Little Cold War
Award-winning
Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell explores the
escalating tensions between Venezuela’s Hugo
Chávez and Colombia’s Álvaro
Uribe.
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"Mother
and Child" by Fernando Botero, 2004. |
The
Art of Fernando Botero
UC
Berkeley Professor Emeritus and founding director
of the Berkeley Art Museum Peter Selz discusses Fernando
Botero's artistic trajectory.
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Cuban
school children cross the Plaza Vieja in Havana.
(photo by Brian Snelson) |
Cuba's
Academic Advantage
Professor
Martin Carnoy describes his research into the Cuban
educational success story.
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A
Medellín comuna.
(photo by Julián Castro Suarez.) |
Colombia:
Paramilitaries at the Polls
Graduate
student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient
Benjamin Lessing examines the influence of paramilitaries
in Colombia.
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A
young boy plants an MST flag as his family unloads
their belongings.
(photo by Roberto Vinicius) |
The
Economy of Land Conflict in Brazil
Berkeley
graduate students F. Daniel Hidalgo and Neal P. Richardson
report on their research on the driving economic
factors that contribute to "land invasions" across
Brazil.
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Children
bathe in a Dominican batey.
(photo by Julián Castro Suarez.) |
The
Bitter for the Sweet
CLAS
Vice Chair Sara Lamson reviews the documentary "The
Price of Sugar."
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Ms.
Homeland Security.
(Photo by Robin Lasser. Reprinted from Storming the Gates of
Paradise) |
Borders
and Crossers
CLAS
Contributing Editor Joshua Jelly-Schapiro interviews
essayist and author Rebecca Solnit about her recent
book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes
for Politics.
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Commentary:
Art in a Time of Violence
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Botero
at Berkeley
A
Special Section of the Review on
Fernando
Botero's
"Abu Ghraib"
at
Berkeley in 2007 |
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Fernando
Botero (left) talks with Robert
Hass.
(photo by Jan Sturmann) |
A
Conversation with the Artist
Fernando
Botero in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor
and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.
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Fernando
Botero,"Abu Ghraib 79," 2005, watercolor
on paper. (Image courtesy of Fernando Botero) |
Fernando
Botero: Abu Ghraib
Selections
from the paintings and drawings in the exhibit.
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Fernando
Botero, Abu Ghraib 37, 2005, pencil on paper.
(Image courtesy of Fernando Botero) |
Art
and Violence
Three
UC Berkeley professors, Francine Masiello, Tom Laqueur
and T.J. Clark, place Fernando Botero’s “Abu
Ghraib” series in historical and artistic context.
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The
Stanford Prison Experiment led to behaviors strangely
similar to treatment of Iraqi detainees.
(photo courtesy of Philip Zimbardo) |
Torture
in a Time of Terrorism
Representatives
from the fields of human rights, law, art and psychology
discuss the role of torture from the Middle Ages
to the present.
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Mr.
Botero inspects the
exhibit prior to opening night.
(photo by Jan Sturmann) |
Figures
in Light and Shadow
Colombian
journalist Daniel Coronell interviews Fernando Botero.
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Fernando
Botero outside the Free Speech Movement
Cafe. (photo by David R. Léon Lara) |
Bringing
Botero to Berkeley
Jean
Spencer reveals the inside story of how this remarkable
exhibition and series of events came about.
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Contents |
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A
crowded Transantiago subway
station.
(photo: Daniel Ebensperger)
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The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
CLAS
Senior Scholar Kirsten Sehnbruch discusses
the rocky implementation of Chile’s Transantiago
transport system and its effect on Michelle Bachelet’s
presidency.
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A
sign in English and Spanish outside a polling
place in San Antonio, Texas.
(photo: Associated Press) |
Who
Is the Latino Voter?
CLAS
Senior Scholar Maria Echaveste performs
a close analysis of the 2006 election results and
what they reveal about Latino voters.
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A
Nicaraguan brigadista holds a test tube
containing larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes,
which transmit dengue virus. (photo courtesy
of Eva Harris) |
Science,
Sustainability and the South
UC
Berkeley Public Health Professor Eva Harris builds
community and capacity in her efforts to control
the spread of dengue.
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Supporters
of Daniel Ortega celebrate his victory.
(photo:
Getty Images) |
El
Comandante Returns
Carlos
Chamorro provides a perspective on the
recent election of Sandinista Daniel Ortega in
Nicaragua.
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Lázaro
Cárdenas (who nationalized
Mexico's oil industry) remains part of that
country's landscape.
(photo by Melanie Bateman) |
Black
Rain: Veracruz 1900-1938
Professor
Myrna Santiago describes “the ecology of oil” created
by oil barons in Veracruz early in the last century.
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Argentine
presidents Néstor Kirchner and
(mouseover photo) Juan Domingo Perón.
(photos:
Associated Press and Getty Images) |
The
Persistence of Peronism
More
than 60 years after Juan Perón was first elected
president of Argentina, his party continues to dominate
Argentine politics.
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Brazilian
workers march for an increase in the
minimum wage.
(photo: Getty Images) |
Labor’s
Love Lost?
Kjeld
Jakobsen discusses the challenges facing the Brazilian
labor movement.
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Mexican
legislators brawl in the Congress
building, just prior to the inauguration
of Felipe Calderón.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
My
Life in the Clouds
Graduate
student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient
Christian DiCanio describes his research into the
Trique language of western Oaxaca state.
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Stealing
From the People or
Stealing People?
Graduate
student Joshua Jelly Schapiro reviews the film "Manda
Bala."
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Cover
art from Lost City Radio.
(image courtesy of HarperCollins) |
Locating Lost
City Radio
Graduate
student Meredith Perry reviews Daniel Alarcón’s Lost
City Radio.
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Parque
Pumalín, Chile.
(photo courtesy of the
Foundation for Deep Ecology.) |
Measure
A
poem by Robert Hass.
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Review of Latin American Studies
Fall 2006
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Expanding
the Possible: President Ricardo Lagos
on Berkeley campus during his stay, fall 2006,
and with Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.
(photos: Dionicia Ramos and Scott Squire) |
Expanding
the Possible
Ricardo
Lagos, President of Chile from 2000–2006,
was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin
American Studies this fall. In a public talk, he
spoke about the challenges and possibilities for
Chile and Latin America in the future.
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David
Bonior (left) speaks about NAFTA
and free trade agreements as President Lagos
listens.
(photo: David R. Léon Lara) |
Who
Enjoys the Fruits of Trade?
President
Lagos and David Bonior, House Democratic Whip 1991-2002,
talked about the effects of free trade agreements,
NAFTA, and labor during a free-wheeling discussion
moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken.
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President
Lagos with then-Defense Minister,
now President Michelle Bachelet in
2004.
(photo courtesy of www.presidencia.cl) |
Defining
New Frontiers
During
his presidency, Ricardo Lagos redefined the possibilities
in Chile, planning and working for the future while
also dealing with the ghosts of the past. Kirsten
Sehnbruch analyzes Lagos' impact in Chile,
Latin America and the world.
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American
protestors fighting against the adoption
of NAFTA in 1993 . (photo:
AP Wide World) |
Afta
Thoughts on NAFTA
Brad
DeLong, Berkeley Professor of Economics and part
of the Clinton Administration team that negotiated
NAFTA, has some second thoughts on its effects 12
years after the agreement was adopted.
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Colombian
narcopolice guard a seized coca field.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
Plan
Colombia: Coca Moves to the Right
Daniel
Coronell, a Senior Visiting Scholar at CLAS who will
be teaching a course on modern Colombia in spring
2007, says that the plan to halve Colombian coca
production hasn't decreased it, but has moved its
production from areas controlled by leftist guerillas
to those controlled by right-leaning paramilitaries.
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The
army violently quashes a demonstration
in Argentina in 1982.
(photo: Pablo Lasansky) |
State
Terrorism in Argentina:
Images and Memories
CLAS
featured an art exhibit this fall, En Negro y
Blanco, of news photographs about state terror
in Argentina before, during and after the military
dictatorship. Professor Mark Healey discusses its
impact.
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A
young man dragged off by the police
in 1982.
(photo:
David García) |
The
Screams Behind the Photographs
Ambassador
Héctor Timerman, Argentina's Consul General
in New York, was intimately familiar with state terror
in Argentina; his father Jacobo was arrested, tortured
and imprisoned. Ambassador Timerman talks about the
art exhibit, and the emotions behind the images.
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Felipe
Calderón, new president of
a divided Mexico, holds up a newspaper proclaiming
his victory.
(photo: AP Wide World) |
Divided
Mexico
Professor
Denise Dresser of ITAM talks about the social and
political tensions that underlie both the divisive
campaign for and the ongoing disputes over the 2006
Mexican presidential election.
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Mexican
legislators brawl in the Congress
building, just prior to the inauguration
of Felipe Calderón.
(photo:
AP Wide World) |
Civil
Government?
Professor
Rafael Fernández de Castro, head of International
Studies at ITAM and the co-chair of the U.S.-Mexico
Futures Forum, argues for the need for civility in
Mexican politics.
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The
wrestler "Little Ray of Hope" raises
his fist in support of AMLO.
(photo: AP Wide World) |
Not
a Game for Angels
Manuel
Camacho, former president of the PRI, mayor of Mexico
City, and now a key strategist for Andrés
Manuel López Obrador, spoke about the election,
its aftermath, and the path ahead in a talk at UC
Berkeley in November 2006.
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Professor
Nancy Scheper-Hughes with Gaddy Tauber. (photo
courtesy of Nancy Scheper-Hughes) |
Portrait
of Gaddy Tauber: Organs Trafficker, Holocaust Survivor
In
a cell in Brazil, Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes
interviews a man who managed to survive the Holocaust
as a child, but now is imprisoned in Brazil for persuading
poor Brazilians to sell their kidneys abroad.
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The
Writing on the Wall
Teresa
Caldeira researches the subcultures of street artists
in São Paulo, Brazil, tracing the dividing
lines between the elaborate designs of the more accepted
graffiti artists and the angular calligraphy of their
competitors for public space, the pichadors.
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Anderson
Sá of AfroReggae performs during "Favela
Rising." (photo courtesy of Jeff Zimbalist) |
A
New Spin on Rio's Favelas
Favela
Rising, a documentary screened at CLAS this fall, offers
a new and hopeful take about improving people's lives
in the poorest and most violent of Rio's shantytown neighborhoods.
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Environmental
Entrepreneurs
Doug
Tompkins went from the boardroom of Esprit to the wilds
of Patagonia, helping to create new national parks and
maintain open space in charting out an environmentally
sustainable future for Latin America.
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Review of Latin American Studies
Winter/Spring 2006
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Overlapping
Societies: Immigration demonstration on the
Mall, Washington, May 2006.
(photo: Getty Images) |
Overlapping
Societies
At the fourth annual meeting of the U.S.–Mexico
Futures Forum political actors, academics, business
people and social movement leaders from both sides
of the border met to discuss the most pressing issues
of the day and to define salient themes for tomorrow.
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Millions
Outside; 535 Inside
Maria
Echaveste explores how the groundwork laid by Washington
insiders has been supported by recent pro-immigration
demonstrations and vice versa.
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Migrant
workers in California.
(photo: Mimi Chakarova) |
The
Guest Worker Program Is No Simple Solution
Professor
Lydia Chávez offers a critique of recent
calls for a guest worker program in the U.S.
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Michelle
Bachelet taking office as the
first female president of Chile. (photo: AP) |
Bachelet,
Sí Visiting
scholar Kirsten Sehnbruch analyzes the rise to
power of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in
an election that was both revolutionary and unremarkable.
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Lula
with other Latin American presidents, 2006.
(photo:
Getty Images) |
Brazil’s
New Role
Brazilian
Ambassador to the United States Roberto Abdenur
outlines his view of the state of U.S.–Brazilian
relations.
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Pro-autonomy
protestors in Santa Cruz.
(photo: AP) |
Bolivia’s
Conservative Autonomy Movement
While
in most Latin American countries government decentralization
is seen as a progressive ideal, Professor Kent
Eaton explains why local autonomy is being championed
by conservative factions in Bolivia.
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Production
on the film "Machuca."
(photo:
Andrés Wood) |
Making
Movies in Latin America
Andrés
Wood, director of the acclaimed film “Machuca,” discusses
the evolution of filmmaking in Chile.
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Police
hold a death squad leader inTimbaúba.
(photo: Nancy Scheper-Hughes) |
Human
Rights, Democracy and Citizenship in Timbaúba
Professor
Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows the trajectory of
a death squad in Timbaúba, Brazil from 1987
to present.
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Dr.
Simi, mascot of Farmacias Similares.
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Getty Images) |
Mexico ’s
Generics Revolution Professor
Cori Hayden provides an in-depth analysis of the
burgeoning generic pharmaceutical empire of Victor
González Torres and his Farmacias Similares.
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Inside
the Coca Cola plant in Carepa.
(photo: Tovin Lapan) |
Killer
Cola?
Journalism
student Tovin Lapan travels to Colombia to sort
out fact from fiction in the controversy over treatment
of union members by local Coca-Cola bottling companies.
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Cuauhtémoc
Cárdenas with Cal students after his
talk. (photo: Dionicia Ramos) |
Cárdenas
at Cal
Excerpts
from a talk given by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
on “The Future of U.S.–Mexico Relations.”
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The
New Colossus/No Soy Criminal
Emma
Lazarus’ famous poem is paired with a more
recent offering penned by two K’iche’ migrants
working as day laborers in San Francisco.
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Berkeley
Review of Latin American Studies
Fall
2005
Contents
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Lula
in the Ring: President Lula wears
boxing gloves during the opening ceremony of
the new Olympic Village in Manaus, Brazil. |
Lula
in the Ring
In
a rare interview, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva answers questions about his government’s
achievements, current corruption charges, trade negotiations
and Brazil ’s relationship with China.
Inter-American
Court Upholds Haitian Rights
A
recent Inter-American Court ruling supports the right
of Dominican-born Haitians to citizenship and schooling.Zorro
Strikes Again
Isabel
Allende and Sandy Curtis discuss Zorro’s latest
novelistic incarnation.Crossing
Through the Night
Young
director Tommy Davis documents the desert crossing
of four Mexican migrants in his film “Mojados: Through
the Night.”Staging
Human Rights
British
professor and director Paul Heritage stages “impossible
encounters” by bringing theater and human rights
to Brazilian prisons.
Bolivia:
Rebellion From Within
Recent
Bolivian unrest is home-grown, argues Stanford professor
Herbert Klein.
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A
Tribute: Mexican Ambassador to the
United Nations Adolfo Aguilar Zinser speaks
during the debate over the Iraq War resolutions. |
Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser: A Tribute
Five
perspectives on the life and contributions of Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser, Mexico’s Ambassador to the UN
Security Council. 2002-03.Reflections
on the UN
Ambassador
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser analyzes Mexico’s role
on the UN Security Council on the eve of the Iraq war
in excerpts from his last address to the U.S.–Mexico
Futures Forum.When
the Leader Follows the Crowd
Economist
Juan Flores reevaluates the 1890 Argentinean financial
crisis from a microeconomic perspective. Xavier
Velasco: Guardian Devil
Xavier
Velasco describes his trajectory as a writer and the
inspiration for his prize-winning novel Diablo
Guardián.
Cuba’s
Dance Revolution
What
does the future hold for former diva Alicia Alonso’s
Cuban ballet troupe?
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The
National Congress, Brasília.
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A
Bumpy Ride in Brasília
Three
leading Brazilian public figures — Luiz Dulci,
Jorge Wilheim and Paulo Paiva — were asked to
comment on the current political situation in Brazil.
Lula’s
Government: Brazil in Transformation*
Luiz
Soares Dulci, Chief Minister of the General Secretariat
of the Presidency of Brazil, outlines the achievements
of the Lula government. Roots
of the Crisis
Jorge
Wilheim puts the current Brazilian corruption crisis
in context.
From
Hope to Despair
Paulo
Paiva chronicles the dashing of hopes that the “Workers’ Party
way of governing” would put a stop to endemic
corruption in Brazilian politics.
Brazil’s
Arms Referendum: A Post-Mortem*
Ben
Lessing analyzes the recent Brazilian gun control
referendum.*Exclusive
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