Music was a tool of survival for victims of Chile’s dictatorship. Review: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile, Katia Chornik, 2025, Oxford University Press
Categories: Chile
Melodies of resistance
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Tag: Left-wing
Why the Right smells blood
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Latin America’s Left is handing populists ammunition for the culture wars. The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions, edited by André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro, 2024, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, South America, Uruguay
Destiny’s bad loser
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George Grayson’s Mexican Messiah is a provocative biographical study of the leftwing firebrand Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Gavin O’Toole reads his account of a journey to calvary Mexican Messiah: Andrés Manuel López ObradorBy George W. Grayson2007, Pennsylvania State University PressHardback, 337 pages ENRIQUE KRAUZE may be an establishment figure in Mexico having little in common with…
Categories: Mexico, North America