Look at Hugo Chavez Through a Latin American Lens
4-1-13
Alejandro Velasco is assistant professor of Latin American studies at New York University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Venezuelan history, and is the author of the manuscript "A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote’: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Modern Venezuela." He received his PhD in history from Duke University in 2009.
Hugo Chavez's Sullied Progressive Legacy in the Mideast
3-11-13
Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History and the director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. His latest book, "Engaging the Muslim World," is just out in a revised paperback edition from Palgrave Macmillan.
Washington Tortures Everywhere ... Except Latin America
2-19-13
Greg Grandin is a TomDispatch regular and the author of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Lost Jungle City," a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Later this year, his new book, Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, will be published by Metropolitan Books.
