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Reporting on Romer’s Charter Cities: How the Media Sanitize Honduras’s Brutal Regime
Keane Bhatt
Tuesday February 19 2013

“Charter cities” have been promoted for years by Paul Romer, a University of Chicago–trained economist teaching at New York University. But the applicability of Romer’s radical vision in Honduras always depended on the enthusiasm of the authoritarian, post-coup government of Porfirio Lobo.

Solidarity Brings Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López
Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group
Monday February 11 2013

After 417 days of wrongful imprisonment, Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López is freed. The following is a news update from the Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group.

 

Our Resistance, Part II: An Interview with Rafael Cancel Miranda
Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera
Thursday February 7 2013

This is the second half of an interview with Don Rafael Cancel Miranda, an elder statesman and key figure of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

South America: A Panorama of Media Democratization

Monday January 28 2013

Media in Latin America have traditionally been consolidated into the hands of a few wealthy families and large media conglomerates. Over the last decade and a half, however, several governments in the region, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, have moved to democratize media.

Democratizing the Media: An Interview with Carlos Ciappina

Wednesday January 16 2013

Carlos Ciappina is the Secretary of the School for Journalism and Social Communication at the National University of La Plata, which awarded Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez its Rodolfo Walsh Award for Popular Communication in 2011. According to Ciappina, the right to communication means not only free speech, but also access to the means of communication.

Print Media Withers in Bolivia, While Radio Thrives
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Thursday January 10 2013

During the first decade of the 21st century, Bolivia’s “classic” newspapers have disappeared. Beyond print, radio has traditionally dominated Bolivia’s media landscape, a reality due in large part to the country’s multiethnic and multicultural makeup. For perhaps the same reason and also because of its high degree of politicization, Bolivia leads the world in community broadcasting.

Human Mic: Technologies for Democracy
Rossana Reguillo
Tuesday January 8 2013

“Mic check!” The Occupy movement has created a new medium for collective listening.

Video Advocacy and Forced Evictions in Brazil: An Interview With Tiago Donato

Thursday January 3 2013

Groups in Rio de Janeiro are using media to stop evictions in the lead-up to the World Cup and Olympics.

Fernando Coronil: A Brief Appreciation
Charles Briggs
Monday December 31 2012

It would be impossible to summarize Fernando Coronil’s work in a short essay. I thus offer a few reflections here on dimensions of his work that have provided challenges to my own scholarship.

Reading Tea Leaves in Venezuela: How to Interpret the Results of Sunday’s Regional Election
Gabriel Hetland
Friday December 21 2012

Regional elections do not usually attract international media headlines. But Sunday’s gubernatorial race in Venezuela was not a typical regional election. This was the first time since Chávez came to power in 1999 in which he was unable to actively campaign in an election.