The mythical representation of the Che Guevara icon has been undoubtedly useful propaganda for the Cuban government, but, argues Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, the most surprising, unexpected blow to the myth is capitalism’s appropriation of his image as a kind of trademark.
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China’s president calls for all media to train journalists on “Marxist news concepts” – but what does that mean exactly? According to Tienchi Martin-Liao, the new move coincides with the recent crackdown on dissidents as the government attempts to handle economic anxiety.
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Now that Hugo Chávez is gone, who really has the power and exercises control in Venezuela? Israel discusses Chávez’s lasting effects on the country.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the subtext and nuances of Raúl Castro’s recent inflammatory speech to the Cuban people.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the subtext and nuances of Raúl Castro’s recent inflammatory speech to the Cuban people.
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Israel Centeno describes George Orwell’s difficulties finding a publisher for Animal Farm and how that bitterness led to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Israel Centeno reviews Double Lives by Stephen Koch, which looks back at Willi Müzenberg and the Innocents’ Clubs of the early 20th century. Such groups of naïve left intellectual sympathizers of “good despots”, Centeno argues, still abound today.
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