Recently from Walter
August 13th, 2008
Economía global, mundo policéntrico
Publicado en Página 12 (versión abreviada), Buenos Aires, Agosto 12, 2008
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Las olimpíadas en Beijing muestran el esplendor de China, mientras Vladimir Putin viaja de Beijing al Caucasus para atender al enfrentamiento armado entre la Federación Rusa y Georgia en la disputa por la anexión o la soberanía de Osetia.
Mientras tanto, el Presidente George W. Bush, […]
July 24th, 2008
La mercantilización de la vida
Publicado en Página12, Buenos Aires, Junio 17, 2008
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La cumbre sobre la crisis alimentaria realizada en Roma en la primera semana de Junio fue, a juzgar por los comentarios internacionales y por las expectativas del sentido común, una cumbre más. El único discurso que “desentonó” fue aquel que confrontó el problema cara a cara: Robert Mugabe, […]
June 6th, 2008
Racism and Human Rights
The series of events that unfolded in Sucre, Bolivia, since May 24 have not received much attention by the international press; and in some cases, the report contributed to obscure the facts. The events invite us, all of us, to think about racism and human rights; who are the perpetrators, who are the victims, what […]
December 1st, 2007
Sobre descolonización/descolonialidad, una vez más
Mis comentarios sobre “Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal” provocaron algunas reacciones immediatas. Una de ellas, pregunta por qué escribo en inglés sobre estos temas. En los próximos días traduciré el artículo al castellano y responderé a esta pregunta.
En lo que sigue, hago algunas aclaraciones dirigidas a preguntas y objeciones que se […]
November 29th, 2007
Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal
A while ago, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated that when someone says Eurocentrism “every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture: to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism.” However, he asked himself, “is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the […]
November 1st, 2007
Bono contra China
During one pleasant summer night Leo Ching, Ralph Litzinger and I where chatting about the quite interesting issue of Vanity Fair, published in July of 2007 and edited by Bono.
The issue received quite a bit of attention.
The conversation moved from Bono’s “crusade” to Bill and Melinda Gates in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation’s […]
October 29th, 2007
On “The Idea of Latin America”
There is a recurrent blindness among readers and commentators of The Idea of Latin America. Although in the third part of the book I argued that “After” Latin America is the work of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Andean, of Indigenous intellectuals and political projects and that Latinos and Latinas in the US also contribute to dismantling […]
June 20th, 2007
Are Africans in South America and the Caribbean also Latins?
My friend Roger, from Brazilia, sent me this site about the growing presence of Afro-Latin Americans, as the saying goes.
There is an interesting map, that I highlight here for your easy access.
It will be interesting to have a similar map tracing the European migration to—let’s say to simplify matters—America. Do you have […]
April 7th, 2007
Attorney General Alberto Gonzáles and the Hispanic Challenge
When noted Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington published his controversial article, “The Hispanic Challenge,” in Foreign Policy no one could have thought of Alberto Gonzáles. Huntington’s article was published on February 24, 2004. And President George Bush announced on November 11 of that same year that Gonzáles was his choice to replace […]
March 30th, 2007
Rafael Correa: it is “change of epoch” rather than “an epoch of changes” (1)
ALAI, Latin America in Movement
2007-01-19
AmericaLatina, Ecuador
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In January of 2006 Evo Morales became the president of Bolivia; in November of 2006 Hugo Chávez was elected by a significant majority of votes for a second term in Venezuela; and in January of 2007, one year after Morales, Rafael Correa became the president of Ecuador.
Rafael Correa’s expression […]