AMLO update: part 4
Image credit: Creative Commons 2.0 by Eneas de Troya Written this year with Humberto Beck, the fourth entry in my coverage of developments in AMLO’s Mexico is available in the […]
Category Archives: Mexico
The Immovable AMLO
For the third year, I have co-written another look at what is happening in Mexico under AMLO. With Carlos Bravo Regidor and Humberto Beck, I have tried to go beyond […]
Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
As we did a year ago during his campaign, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I tried to cut through the highly polarized conversation around Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get to […]
Historia de las exposiciones en México
I gave a talk at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, part of UNAM. It was the closing speech for a conference on the “Historia de las exposiciones en México.” […]
AMLO’s Sweeping Victory
In the wake of AMLO’s sweeping victory in Mexico’s elections, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I have returned to Dissent to analyze the results. It was a strikingly thorough victory, he […]
Interviews about Mexican elections
I spoke with Nathaniel Parish Flannery about the upcoming Mexican elections for Forbes and tried out my “if you must compare AMLO to someone, he’s more Jimmy Carter than Hugo […]
A New Hope for Mexico?: A close look at Mexico’s 2018 elections and the candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
UPDATE 07/06/2018: After the election results, Carlos and I returned to Dissent to analyze the results. My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of […]
Review of Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War”
My review of Renata Keller’s very fine book has now appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2016): 868-869. Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, […]
A review of Jorge García Robles, “At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico”
This review will appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies; at least until it does, I’m reasonably certain that I can host it here. Jorge García-Robles, At the End […]
The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda
Update 5/3/2016: this essay has been published in Spanish by Nexos. I’m honored to be making my debut in Dissent, a magazine I greatly admire. To my mind, Irving Howe navigated […]
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