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Category Archives: Mexico

The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores

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An article I’ve written, “The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores,” was published in the Journal of Latin American Studies vol 48., no. 2 (May 2016). It is available at […]

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CIA, Cold War, Intellectuals, Latin America, Mexico, US and the World, writing

Arriving in Texas

July 20, 2015by patrickiber Leave a comment

Sunrise over El Paso and Juárez, our new home.

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Mexico, photos, United States

Paraíso de espías (Paradise of Spies: Mexico City in the Cold War)

April 2, 2014by patrickiber Leave a comment

A new text of mine has appeared in Nexos. It updates and extends my academic paper about Vicente Lombardo Toledano, placing Mexico’s relative nonchalance about the Snowden revelations in historical […]

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Cold War, Essays, Mexico, Nexos, writing

Juan Rulfo, the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, and the Cold War in the press

March 28, 2014by patrickiber Leave a comment

The apparent oddity of Juan Rulfo having received CIA dollars, revealed in the essay I recently published with S-USIH, has been making the rounds in the Mexican and international press. Here […]

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CIA, Cold War, Intellectuals, Mexico, press, USIH, writing

How the CIA bought Juan Rulfo some land in the country

March 14, 2014by patrickiber 1 Comment

An essay of mine is being featured at the blog of the Society of U.S. Intellectual History. The piece came about as a response to Eric Bennett’s fascinating “How Iowa […]

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CIA, Cold War, Essays, Mexico, USIH, writing

Managing Mexico’s Cold War: Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Uses of Political Intelligence

July 17, 2013by patrickiber Leave a comment

I have a short article in the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research as part of a special dossier on the use of Mexican secret police archives for writing […]

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Cold War, Mexico, propaganda, writing

A Diplomatic History of Mexican Diplomacy

July 17, 2013by patrickiber Leave a comment

My review of Roberta Lajous Vargas’s “Las relaciones exteriores de México (1821-2000),” is up at Letras Libres. I wrote in Spanish, so there’s no English version to post here, but […]

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Latin America, Letras Libres, Mexico, Reviews, writing

Manufacturing the Manufacturing of Consent

May 23, 2013by patrickiber Leave a comment

In 2012, I published a large review essay in the journal Istor of several books on the subject of war and public opinion (link here, everything is available for free in […]

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Latin America, Mexico, propaganda, US and the World, writing

My son goes to Mexico

November 28, 2012by patrickiber Leave a comment

Summer 2012 – Tepoztlán

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family, Latin America, Mexico, photos

Cuauhtémoc: Congruencia y contradicción

April 2, 2011by patrickiber 1 Comment

My review of Sobre mis pasos, the political memoirs of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, was published by Nexos. The final, key graf: Nada de lo anterior implica regatearle sus logros a cualquiera […]

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Latin America, Mexico, Nexos, Reviews, writing

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