The conclusion to Israel Centeno’s three-part series on the roots of violence in Latin America. In this final installment Centeno discusses how “distorted legends of heroism” and nationalism cover and cause the region’s inextricable cycle of revolt and “the prevalence of violence in all spaces.”
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Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction editor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo answers questions at City of Asylum Pittsburgh about the current state of Cuban literature, the complexity of the term “afro-cuban,” accessing the internet in Cuba, and why there’s currently a lack of unity among Cuban literary organizations and authors.
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In this piece cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (Nicaragua) comments on the one year anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s death.
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Almost a year ago Ilham Tohti, a 44 year-old Uyghur scholar and lecturer, told Radio Free Asia he had the feeling that his “peaceful days are numbered.” On January 15, he disappeared.
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Ever since Russian military troops entered Crimea, local media workers have been intimidated and harassed, offices have been broken into, TV signals have been cut, and outside journalists have been barred entry to the country, effectively silencing all but “one ‘correct’ opinion.”
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2014 Rhodes Scholar Courtney Wittekind discusses the roots of her interest in Burma, what it was like to visit the country in January 2013 after political reforms began to take effect, and how she translates some of the more difficult aspects of the Burmese language.
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Hamdy El-Gazzar pens a heartfelt ode to the Lebanese singer Sabah: “Sabah… is the spirit of the morning and its bright, chirping sounds. We used to hear her on our way to school, to work, and to the first girl we discovered that we loved.”
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