Word: latinization
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...hundreds of workers back to Mexico. Preston, who is the national immigration correspondent for The Times, spoke yesterday afternoon about policy concerns with illegal immigration and its social impact as part of “¡México Hoy!”, a David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies series on U.S.-Mexico relations. Titled “Where There Are Mexicans, There Is Mexico: Mexican Immigrants in the United States,” Preston’s talk emphasized the significance of the Mexican immigrant community. “It is very different when you have...
...said nothing. Now it’s coming for my bathroom, and I have to say something.Campus activism in Cambridge has taken many forms through the years: Those brave young viri of 1961 confronting President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 over his decision to remove Latin from their diplomas (“Latin, Si! Pusey, No!”); their successors, eight years later, occupying University Hall (“Fight! Fight!” they yelled, calling for ROTC’s ejection); last spring, nine students holding a nine-day fast to protest the working conditions...
...tens of thousands of fellow students proved decisive: They articulated an opposition message and galvanized its sympathizers far more effectively than Venezuela's older political elite ever could. It was a force Chavez had not planned on reckoning with, particularly since students have long been a bloc that Latin America's political left could depend on. Chavez also couldn't withstand the defections within his own bloc, including socialist state Governors and, perhaps most important, his erstwhile pal and former Defense Minister, Raul Baduel, who earlier this month called Chavez's amendments a "constitutional coup d'etat." The attempt...
...Despite his authoritarian bent, Chavez (whose current and apparently last term ends in 2012) had always insisted he was a democrat - that he was, in fact, forging "a more genuine democracy" in a nation that had in many ways been a sham democracy typical of a number of Latin American countries. His presidential election victories - in 1998, 2000 and 2006, as well as his victory over an attempt to recall him in a 2004 referendum - were all recognized by credible international observers; and that conferred on him a democratic legitimacy that helped blunt accusations by his enemies, especially...
...cachet that, fortunately, he knew he couldn't forfeit. As a result, the referendum result will resonate far beyond Venezuela. Latin Americans in general have grown disillusioned by democratic institutions - particularly their failure to solve the region's gaping inequality and frightening insecurity - and many observers fear that Latin Americans, as they so often have in their history, are again willing to give leaders like Chavez inordinate, and inordinately protracted, powers. Chavez, critics complained, was in fact leading a trend of what some called "democratators" - democratically elected dictators. His allies in Bolivia and Ecuador, for example, are hammering...