Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies
Fall 2007

Comment
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.

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Contents

President Ricardo Lagos inaugurates a new metro line in 2005. (photo: Daniel Ebensperger)

Democracy and the Chilean Miracle

Manuel Castells explores development success in Chile through the theoretical lens of the "democratic liberal inclusive model."

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Bas-relief of "Agriculture" at the US Department of Commerce. (photo: takomabibelot)

Agriculture and Development: The Latin American Difference

UC Berkeley Professors Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, core team members of the 2008 World Development Report, point to ways agriculture can be better used as a development instrument.

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Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, Ushuaia, Argentina. (photo: Ricardo Martins)

Argentina: Charting the Course

Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana discusses the plans and goals of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s new administration with CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken.

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Ballot box during Mexico's 2006 election. (photo: Jubilo Haku)

Firm Steps on Uncertain Ground

CLAS Visiting Scholar Sergio Aguayo analyzes the threat of "Billionaires, Governors and Drug Lords" to democracy and stability in Mexico against the backdrop of the contentious 2006 election.

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Juan Gabriel Valdés with then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. (photo: Eskinder Debebe/UN)

Latin American Voices:
Juan Gabriel Valdés

Chile's Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council (2000-03) and former head of the UN mission in Haiti shares his perspective on U.S. involvement in Iraq.

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A Zapotec campesino. (photo: Gabriela Zamorano)

Fifty Years: From Autonomy to Dependence

UC Berkeley Professor Laura Nader and San José State Professor Roberto González describe the erosion of autonomy in Talea, a mountainous rural village in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

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A curandera and patient. (photo: Kiki Arnal)

The Rincón Zapotec: People of Talea

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Presidents Hugo Chávez (left) and Álvaro Uribe at an August 2007 summit. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)

The Little Cold War

Award-winning Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell explores the escalating tensions between Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe.

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"Mother and Child" by Fernando Botero, 2004.

The Art of Fernando Botero

UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum Peter Selz discusses Fernando Botero's artistic trajectory.

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Cuban school children cross the Plaza Vieja in Havana. (photo by Brian Snelson)

Cuba's Academic Advantage

Professor Martin Carnoy describes his research into the Cuban educational success story.

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A Medellín comuna. (photo by Julián Castro Suarez.)

Colombia: Paramilitaries at the Polls

Graduate student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient Benjamin Lessing examines the influence of paramilitaries in Colombia.

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A young boy plants an MST flag as his family unloads their belongings. (photo by Roberto Vinicius)

The Economy of Land Conflict in Brazil

Berkeley graduate students F. Daniel Hidalgo and Neal P. Richardson report on their research on the driving economic factors that contribute to "land invasions" across Brazil.

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Children bathe in a Dominican batey. (photo by Julián Castro Suarez.)

The Bitter for the Sweet

CLAS Vice Chair Sara Lamson reviews the documentary "The Price of Sugar."

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Ms. Homeland Security. (Photo by Robin Lasser. Reprinted from Storming the Gates of Paradise)

Borders and Crossers

CLAS Contributing Editor Joshua Jelly-Schapiro interviews essayist and author Rebecca Solnit about her recent book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics.

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New Working Papers

Coalitional Choices and Strategic Challenges:
The Landless Movement in Brazil, 1970–2005
(September 2007 / Paper No. 19)

Wendy Muse Sinek
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Art and Violence
(August 2007 / Paper No. 18)

Reactions to Fernando Botero's 'Abu Ghraib' exhibit from two Berkeley professors.

Thomas W. Laqueur
Francine Masiello
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Torture, Human Rights, and Terrorism
(August 2007 / Paper No. 17)

Aryeh Neier
Jenny Martinez
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Commentary: Art in a Time of Violence
CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.

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Fernando Botero (left) talks with Robert Hass. (photo by Jan Sturmann)

A Conversation with the Artist

Fernando Botero in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass.

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Fernando Botero,"Abu Ghraib 79," 2005, watercolor on paper. (Image courtesy of Fernando Botero)

Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib

Selections from the paintings and drawings in the exhibit.

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Fernando Botero, Abu Ghraib 37, 2005, pencil on paper. (Image courtesy of Fernando Botero)

Art and Violence

Three UC Berkeley professors, Francine Masiello, Tom Laqueur and T.J. Clark, place Fernando Botero’s “Abu Ghraib” series in historical and artistic context.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment led to behaviors strangely similar to treatment of Iraqi detainees. (photo courtesy of Philip Zimbardo)

Torture in a Time of Terrorism

Representatives from the fields of human rights, law, art and psychology discuss the role of torture from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Mr. Botero inspects the exhibit prior to opening night. (photo by Jan Sturmann)

Figures in Light and Shadow

Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell interviews Fernando Botero.

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Fernando Botero outside the Free Speech Movement Cafe. (photo by David R. Léon Lara)

Bringing Botero to Berkeley

Jean Spencer reveals the inside story of how this remarkable exhibition and series of events came about.

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Contents

A crowded Transantiago subway station. (photo: Daniel Ebensperger)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

CLAS Senior Scholar Kirsten Sehnbruch discusses the rocky implementation of Chile’s Transantiago transport system and its effect on Michelle Bachelet’s presidency.

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A sign in English and Spanish outside a polling place in San Antonio, Texas. (photo: Associated Press)

Who Is the Latino Voter?

CLAS Senior Scholar Maria Echaveste performs a close analysis of the 2006 election results and what they reveal about Latino voters.

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A Nicaraguan brigadista holds a test tube containing larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue virus. (photo courtesy of Eva Harris)

Science, Sustainability and the South

UC Berkeley Public Health Professor Eva Harris builds community and capacity in her efforts to control the spread of dengue.

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Supporters of Daniel Ortega celebrate his victory. (photo: Getty Images)

El Comandante Returns

Carlos Chamorro provides a perspective on the recent election of Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.

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Lázaro Cárdenas (who nationalized Mexico's oil industry) remains part of that country's landscape. (photo by Melanie Bateman)

Black Rain: Veracruz 1900-1938

Professor Myrna Santiago describes “the ecology of oil” created by oil barons in Veracruz early in the last century.

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Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and (mouseover photo) Juan Domingo Perón. (photos: Associated Press and Getty Images)

The Persistence of Peronism

More than 60 years after Juan Perón was first elected president of Argentina, his party continues to dominate Argentine politics.

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Brazilian workers march for an increase in the minimum wage. (photo: Getty Images)

Labor’s Love Lost?

Kjeld Jakobsen discusses the challenges facing the Brazilian labor movement.

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Mexican legislators brawl in the Congress building, just prior to the inauguration of Felipe Calderón. (photo: AP Wide World)

My Life in the Clouds

Graduate student and Tinker Summer Research Grant recipient Christian DiCanio describes his research into the Trique language of western Oaxaca state.

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Stealing From the People or
Stealing People?

Graduate student Joshua Jelly Schapiro reviews the film "Manda Bala."

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Cover art from Lost City Radio. (image courtesy of HarperCollins)

Locating Lost City Radio

Graduate student Meredith Perry reviews Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio.

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Parque Pumalín, Chile. (photo courtesy of the Foundation for Deep Ecology.)

Measure

A poem by Robert Hass.

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Expanding the Possible: President Ricardo Lagos on Berkeley campus during his stay, fall 2006, and with Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. (photos: Dionicia Ramos and Scott Squire)

Expanding the Possible

Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile from 2000–2006, was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies this fall. In a public talk, he spoke about the challenges and possibilities for Chile and Latin America in the future.

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David Bonior (left) speaks about NAFTA and free trade agreements as President Lagos listens. (photo: David R. Léon Lara)

Who Enjoys the Fruits of Trade?

President Lagos and David Bonior, House Democratic Whip 1991-2002, talked about the effects of free trade agreements, NAFTA, and labor during a free-wheeling discussion moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken.

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President Lagos with then-Defense Minister, now President Michelle Bachelet in 2004. (photo courtesy of www.presidencia.cl)

Defining New Frontiers

During his presidency, Ricardo Lagos redefined the possibilities in Chile, planning and working for the future while also dealing with the ghosts of the past. Kirsten Sehnbruch analyzes Lagos' impact in Chile, Latin America and the world.

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American protestors fighting against the adoption of NAFTA in 1993 . (photo: AP Wide World)

Afta Thoughts on NAFTA

Brad DeLong, Berkeley Professor of Economics and part of the Clinton Administration team that negotiated NAFTA, has some second thoughts on its effects 12 years after the agreement was adopted.

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Colombian narcopolice guard a seized coca field. (photo: AP Wide World)

Plan Colombia: Coca Moves to the Right

Daniel Coronell, a Senior Visiting Scholar at CLAS who will be teaching a course on modern Colombia in spring 2007, says that the plan to halve Colombian coca production hasn't decreased it, but has moved its production from areas controlled by leftist guerillas to those controlled by right-leaning paramilitaries.

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The army violently quashes a demonstration in Argentina in 1982. (photo: Pablo Lasansky)

State Terrorism in Argentina:
Images and Memories

CLAS featured an art exhibit this fall, En Negro y Blanco, of news photographs about state terror in Argentina before, during and after the military dictatorship. Professor Mark Healey discusses its impact.

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A young man dragged off by the police in 1982. (photo: David García)

The Screams Behind the Photographs

Ambassador Héctor Timerman, Argentina's Consul General in New York, was intimately familiar with state terror in Argentina; his father Jacobo was arrested, tortured and imprisoned. Ambassador Timerman talks about the art exhibit, and the emotions behind the images.

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Felipe Calderón, new president of a divided Mexico, holds up a newspaper proclaiming his victory. (photo: AP Wide World)

Divided Mexico

Professor Denise Dresser of ITAM talks about the social and political tensions that underlie both the divisive campaign for and the ongoing disputes over the 2006 Mexican presidential election.

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Mexican legislators brawl in the Congress building, just prior to the inauguration of Felipe Calderón. (photo: AP Wide World)

Civil Government?

Professor Rafael Fernández de Castro, head of International Studies at ITAM and the co-chair of the U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum, argues for the need for civility in Mexican politics.

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The wrestler "Little Ray of Hope" raises his fist in support of AMLO. (photo: AP Wide World)

Not a Game for Angels

Manuel Camacho, former president of the PRI, mayor of Mexico City, and now a key strategist for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke about the election, its aftermath, and the path ahead in a talk at UC Berkeley in November 2006.

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Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes with Gaddy Tauber. (photo courtesy of Nancy Scheper-Hughes)

Portrait of Gaddy Tauber: Organs Trafficker, Holocaust Survivor

In a cell in Brazil, Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes interviews a man who managed to survive the Holocaust as a child, but now is imprisoned in Brazil for persuading poor Brazilians to sell their kidneys abroad.

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The Writing on the Wall

Teresa Caldeira researches the subcultures of street artists in São Paulo, Brazil, tracing the dividing lines between the elaborate designs of the more accepted graffiti artists and the angular calligraphy of their competitors for public space, the pichadors.

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Anderson Sá of AfroReggae performs during "Favela Rising." (photo courtesy of Jeff Zimbalist)

A New Spin on Rio's Favelas

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Environmental Entrepreneurs

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A Tribute: Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Adolfo Aguilar Zinser speaks during the debate over the Iraq War resolutions.

The National Congress, Brasília.