Federico Finchelstein

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Sonali Chakravarti |Federico Finchelstein |Pamela Ballinger |Jacob Walters

Fernanda Torres as Eunice in I’m Still Here | Image: Adrian Teijido / Courtesy of Sony Pictures ClassicsPut on earrings. Go out for ice cream. Swim. Expose the conditions of torture. For Eunice Paiva, the protagonist of 2024 Brazilian film I’m Still Here, the fight against dictatorship has a rhythm. After being interrogated about her association with communists and terrorists, she must now try to find out where her husband is detained and work with a lawyer to get him our.

1 month ago | elmostrador.cl | Federico Finchelstein |Emmanuel Guerisoli

Es claro que el gobierno de Javier Milei representa un corte con la cultura política de la democracia argentina desde 1983 en adelante. No es por falta de populismos en nuestra democracia que el populista Milei se diferencia de los gobiernos anteriores. Su mesianismo no se diferencia de aquellos que critica. El “cripto” escándalo lo acerca aquellos políticos que lo antecedieron en sacar rédito para pocos y aledaños y contribuir al empobrecimiento de los demás.

1 month ago | clarin.com | Federico Finchelstein

Es claro que el gobierno de Javier Milei representa un corte con la cultura política de la democracia argentina desde 1983 en adelante. No es por falta de populismos en nuestra democracia que el populista Milei se diferencia de los gobiernos anteriores. Su mesianismo no se diferencia de aquellos que critica. El “cripto” escándalo lo acerca aquellos políticos que lo antecedieron en sacar rédito para pocos y aledaños y contribuir al empobrecimiento de los demás.

1 month ago | latinoamerica21.com | Federico Finchelstein |Emmanuel Guerisoli

Javier Milei’s government represents a break from Argentina’s democratic political culture since 1983. It is not the presence of populism in our democracy that makes the populist Milei different from previous governments. His messianism is no different from those he criticizes. The “crypto” scandal brings him closer to the politicians who preceded him in profiting for themselves and their allies while contributing to the impoverishment of others.

2 months ago | publicseminar.org | Gant Roberson |Federico Finchelstein |Joseph Matthews |Evangeline Riddiford Graham

11th Anniversary Celebration of El Maizal Commune (2020) | Katrina Kozarek / Venezuela AnalysisIn the central western region of Venezuela, a vast scenery of fertile land blends with the llanero(herdsman) culture of the people of Simón Planas township. Adults make use of children’s bicycles (received as Christmas gifts from the government) to meet the exigencies of day-to-day life, evoking “a forgotten episode in a magical realist novel,” in the words of author Chris Gilbert.