HeyJaredCivitatensis
Select writings and discussions on regional politics and culture in Latin America
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Canada Funds Its Press, Mexico Buries Its Journalists. (opens the original)
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Today (September 28), more than a thousand newsrooms in over a hundred countries marked World News Day, a campaign the Canadian Journalism Foundation founded in 2018 and has since run each September 28 to coincide with UNESCO’s International Day for Universal Access to Information. This year’s slogan asks readers to know the facts, understand what matters, and choose trusted journalism. The sentence presumes two things: journalists willing to do the work, and a craft healthy enough to be worth t
The Jailer Speaks for the Prisoner (opens the original)
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Sheinbaum says Nicaraguans “decided” to end elections. Three hundred and sixteen of them have no passport, seven ran for president from prison, and the Mexican Revolution had one slogan. She has forgotten it.On February 9, 2023, the government of Nicaragua put 222 political prisoners on a flight to Washington and, before the aircraft was cleared for takeoff, stripped every passenger of Nicaraguan nationality. Six days later, a Sandinista judge in Managua read out 94 more names, in absentia, and
La dinastía que devoró una revolución: pretendientes medievales con ropajes marxistas (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowEnglish version hereLa Revolución Sandinista de 1979 prometió hacer añicos una dinastía. Afirmó que sepultaría al clan Somoza, que había gobernado Nicaragua durante más de cuarenta años, y, con él, el viejo mundo de privilegios neofeudales, servilismo clerical y pompa burguesa. Sin embargo, casi medio siglo después, el proy
The Alibi that Never Expires (opens the original)
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Miguel Diaz-Canel’s statement arrived with the confidence of a man who has had sixty-five years to rehearse it. “Al socialismo nunca lo han dejado que se desarrolle en condiciones normales” (socialism has never been allowed to develop under normal conditions), Diaz-Canel announced recently, standing before whatever remains of the apparatus his predecessor built.I was born in Nicaragua and have studied revolutionary regimes for some time. I know this argument the way one knows a recurring nightma
The Woman of Destiny (opens the original)
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Hannah Arendt saw something that utilitarian political science still struggles to absorb. Totalitarian regimes, she wrote, are not governed by interest. They do things no calculation of power would recommend. They spend resources they need, destroy people who might serve them, and persecute where there is no threat. They obey an internal logic of their own that overrides convenience and, at times, the survival of the state itself. (Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951/1958, ch. 13: the conce
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