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Take any town: understanding and misunderstanding the importance of the local
For the most part I found Sam Youngman’s Politico piece on getting out of Washington to be regrettable. As I wrote here, it’s full of bad advice for journalists, and misleading on the real source of DC’s occasional journalistic pathologies. … Continue reading
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Finding your Kentucky
I’ve been wrestling for days with Sam Youngman’s currently Twitter-famous essay on Washington, DC, and journalistic culture. As a sometime freelance writer with a keen interest in national and international politics, raised in small-town North Carolina, and based more-or-less in … Continue reading
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Some thoughts on Columbus/Bartolomé/Indigenous People’s Day
We’ve passed into the wee hours and out of Columbus Day, and I’m still browsing commentary on the holiday. It’s an awkward feeling. After all, it’s a bit hard to figure out what to do with a holiday that holds … Continue reading
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Tagged Columbus Day, hybrid cultures, Latin America, Native Americans
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Participatory budgeting and the bohemian lifestyle: some notes on the consulta virtual, deepening democracy, spatial fragmentation, and a sense of place in Barranco, Lima
I’ve been back in DC a couple weeks now. It’s strange, after Southern winter, to be immersed again in the dense sweaty soup of this city. And I’m still processing my time in Peru, which I spent in part attempting … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, Latin America, Lima, open government, participatory budgeting, Peru
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Remembrance and forgetfulness on Lima’s “Rutas de la Memoria”
Posting has been light in this space, as I’ve been working on some larger projects, but interesting things are happening in Peru all the time, including when I fail to write about them. For one thing, we’re coming up on … Continue reading
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Tagged EPAF, Fujimori, human rights, Peru, political violence, rutas de la memoria, Shining Path
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A heuristic for Humala
I’ve been pondering in recent weeks the inscrutability of Peru’s president Humala, a man without a clear political philosophy who governs Peru with a certain bland pragmatism. My impressions congealed watching him give a presidential address two weekends ago, at … Continue reading
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Tagged contentious politics, democracy, Humala, Latin America, Peru, Puno
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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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