A 1940s chromolithographic postcard by Miguel Gómez Medina pre sents Lake Pátzcuaro
as the heart of Michoacán (figure 1.1). While Lake Pátzcuaro has long been central to …

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform
legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across …

Significant cultural change often results from the interlocking behavior of a few individuals.
The phenomenon is nonreplicable because a considerable portion of the major players' …

On June 11, 1931, El Ilustrado, Mexico's popular weekly, published the first of a series of
articles describing the ongoing work in Mexico of the Russian avant-garde director Sergei …

8. The origin of the PRI dates back to 1929 when President Plutarco Elías Calles, in an effort
to facilitate the reconstruction of Mexican politics and society after a decade-long civil war …

The generational divide that has emerged in Timor-Leste since its return to independence in
2002 is perhaps one of the most significant challenges to the on-going nation-building …

The relationship between art, law, and politics reached its zenith in the 1930s. This essay
takes as its point of departure Walter Benjamin's celebrated essay on the subject, and draws …

This article looks at the process of historical reinterpretation and anti-imperialist struggle
around the Nicaragua mural in (former East) Berlin to demonstrate how internationalist …

After the fall of the right-wing Estado Novo in Portugal in 1974 and the death of the military
dictator Francisco Franco in Spain in 1975, many protest murals appeared in both countries …

Nell'investigare e ricostruire con passione e paziente attenzione archivistica le attività Latino-
americane di Cesare Zavattini dal 1953 ai primi anni settanta–e più precisamente i viaggi, la …