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...business a priority, and they take Latin America to task for doing less than 3% of the world's R&D spending while Asia accounts for more than a third of it. If more of the region's leaders had taken counsel like this a decade ago, Hugo Chávez and the Latin left might not have such a large, impoverished crowd to play to today. Whether or not this is the century of the Americas, these books offer a guide to how Latin America can enter...
...students bent on safeguarding their country's democracy. An international-studies major at Central University of Venezuela, Sánchez is a star in a nascent movement, one that is making itself felt in a political system critics say has vested inordinate power in one man: President Hugo Chávez...
...last May, after the government refused to renew the license of an anti-Chávez broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands of student protesters into the streets, their hands painted white to symbolize nonviolence. That traditional method of expressing discontent was combined with decidedly 21st century ones, as the activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than...
...Brazilian director Jorge Furtado’s2002 film “Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões,â€the character Roza repeats the phrase“I’m pregnant†three times. Each declarationmarks a distinct chapter inthe movie, which is divided into equalparts with almost mathematical precision.Professing one’s pregnancy hasbecome cliché in cinema, and Furtado isthe first to admit that his films are fullof stereotypical characters. However, it’sthe inversion and manipulation of thesestereotypes that has garnered Furtadorespect in the film world.“I trace...
WILL THERE BE WAR? Ecuador's President called the raid a "massacre," and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez added his own bombast about U.S. efforts to spark a regional conflict. But experts say Venezuela and Ecuador rely too much on trade with Colombia to start...