Middle East
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Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings In a 2013 interview with leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos addressed the comments of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who had called Colombia “the Israel of Latin America.” “If somebody called my country the Israel of Latin America, I would be very proud. I admire the Israelis, and I would
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Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner last week of a cover-up connected to the country’s worst-ever terrorist attack, has been found shot dead in the bathroom of his home in Buenos Aires. According to the Daily Beast, “Ten members of the Argentine Federal Police force had been assigned to him as bodyguards,
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The Millennial generation grew up with the Iraq War. We grew up with our classmates being shipped off to fight faraway battles. We grew up watching Operation Iraqi Freedom unfold on our television screens, later on our internet browsers and some of us fought on the front lines. By the time the war finally “ended”
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Read this piece in its entirety at South Florida Arts Review. We’re far enough removed from the times of “Lincoln” and “Django” (and arguably even “Argo”) that we can more easily step back and evaluate art as art, especially in the case of film, where the emphasis is less on making political statements than human ones…
Mike LaSusa 