mikegonzalez

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Mike Gonzalez
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I am Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at Glasgow University and currently (Fall 2014) Visiting Professor in the Spanish Department at the University of Pittsburgh. My published work has been in the culture, politics and history of Latin America, most recently Hugo Chávez, socialist for the 21st century (2014) and Arms and the people (2013). I was coeditor with Daniel Balderston and Ana María López of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin Amderican and Caribbean Cultures. Earlier writing includes Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2006).

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 11:15 0

The ‘pink tide’ refers to the group of progressive governments elected in Latin America in the first decade of the 21st century. But it is an odd metaphor...