Politics

  • Venezuela President’s Cabinet Choice Further Politicizes Drug Cases

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has named a man US authorities accused of drug trafficking as the country’s new Interior minister, a move that further politicizes a series of drug cases brought by the United States against Venezuelan officials… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • “Zero Dark Thirty” Big on Action

    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…

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  • A Thousand Twangling Instruments: Racial and Ethnic Political Identities in Modern Latin America

    I wrote this for a class on Latin American comparative politics. My conclusions: …Indigenous movements are just one section in the symphony of “a thousand twangling instruments” that comprise the social movement scene in Latin America. The present period seems may be like the cacophony on before the concert as the musicians separately tune their

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Portrait illustration of Mike LaSusa

Mike LaSusa