Archive for March, 2005
Latin America’s turn to the left
NCM Online (though I’m not sure exactly what what that is) ran a reasonably good summary of the significance of Latin America’s currrent "turn to the left," the most recent evidence of which is Tabaré Vásquez’s victory in Uruguay’s presidential elections and the emergence of Mexico City’s leftist mayor López Obrador as the front-runner in [...]
Tags: latin america, politics
Recently in the Atlantic Monthly
When I was in grad school I had a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Later, the magazine would make the majority of its contents available for free online. Not anymore–now the only time I ever manage to read it is when I have a long-distance trip to make (i.e., to Argentina) and I manage to [...]
Tags: politics