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Eduardo Galeano: Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson

Eduardo Galeano Tomdispatch.com
The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).

Why So Many Latin Americans Are Rooting Against Argentina in the World Cup

Patrick J. McDonnell, Kate Linthicum, Jad El Reda, Cecilia Sánchez Vidal Yahoo
Argentina may be the last Latin American team standing in the World Cup, but don't expect many fans in Mexico to be cheering for La Albiceleste — the lads sporting the classic white and blue stripes. Deeper cultural resentments are also a factor.

Gunboat Diplomacy Could Spur Anti-Imperialism. It Has Before.

Tony Wood The Conversation
Latin America’s anti-imperialist traditions point to one possible outcome of the U.S.’s newly aggressive stance: a resurgence of anti-imperialist sentiment as the organizing principle for a new generation of activists.

“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”

Olivia Arigho-Stiles Jacobin
Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years.
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