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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Land bonds, peasant protest, and legitimacy in Puno
I spent part of this morning at a meeting of campesinos from throughout Puno region, who had gathered at the region’s First Agrarian Forum, titled “Causes and Consequences of the Agrarian Reform.” The event itself was organized by a group … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, contentious politics, Latin America, Peru, Peru land bonds, Puno
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The United States and Peru’s future: The view from the Miraflores Park Hotel
On Wednesday, I attended the first annual Foro Perú – Estados Unidos (US-Peru Forum), sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce in Peru, jointly with the University of Miami’s Center for Hemispheric Policy. Those in attendance got to hear from … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, foreign policy, Latin America, Peru, trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Misreading Chile: The mythos of Pinochet and the WSJ’s bad advice for Egypt
A couple days ago, the second-worst editorial page in America weighed in on the tumult in Egypt. Of course the results were anodyne at best, and rather maliciously silly at worst: the piece praises the existence of Egypt’s “competing power centers” … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, contentious politics, democracy, Egypt, human rights, Latin America, MENA, Pinochet, Wall Street Journal
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Toward “pacification of the state” in Brazil?
Last week I wrote that Brazil’s protest movement is playing out in a country that functions in a state of “violent democracy,” and attempted to speculate on how that movement might modify that country’s volatile patchwork of violent pluralism. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, Brazil, Brazil protests, human rights, Latin America, political violence
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Concern-trolling the Revolution
A couple days ago David Rothkopf surveyed ongoing protests in Egypt, as well as Turkey and Brazil – and found them wanting. Protesters, he claimed, are steadily revealing that they don’t know what it takes to enter the halls of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, contentious politics, Egypt, how we internet, MENA
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As I sit in a Lima hotel room writing this missive, Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy has more or less just finished a speech in which, as usual, he demonized opponents of his rule and called them “feloul” (remnants (of the … Continue reading
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