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...Martin C. Needler Carleton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America . By Britton John A. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1987 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 309 . Cloth . $24.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 One...

...Vanessa Freije Eclipse of the Assassins: The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía . By Bartley Russell H. and Bartley Sylvia Erickson . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2015 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xi...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 . By Ramírez Cristina Devereaux . Foreword by Royster Jacqueline Jones . Translations by Pouwels Joel Bollinger and Devereaux Neil J. . Tucson...

... in a process of symbolic reorganization with significant social, political, and legal implications. This process, staged on the streets and in the newspapers of Rio de Janeiro, also reflected the new role of journalists in Brazilian cultural life. Claims to honor reinforced hierarchies and became an important...

...Blair D. Woodard Reporting the Cuban Revolution: How Castro Manipulated American Journalists . By Teel Leonard Ray . Foreword by Washburn Patrick . Media and Public Affairs . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 242 pp. Cloth...

...Carl B. Compton Gringo: The American as Seen by Mexican Journalists . By Merrill John C. . Gainesville , 1963 . The University of Florida Press . Latin American Monographs, No. 23 . Notes . Pp. vii , 52 . Paper . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964...

... columns parodying prevailing gender roles and ideas of femininity. In Battles of Belonging , Sandra Sánchez-López examines Colombia's little-studied women's press from the 1940s to the 1970s and the work of women journalists who, like Cucufata, defied gender expectations of the time. Sánchez-López...

... the region as prehistoric, desolate, and windswept. Similarly, the Ushuaia penal colony (1902–1947), located on the Beagle Channel, has been narrowly cast as the “Argentine Siberia.” I unpack these evocative labels through an examination of journalist accounts, prison personnel correspondence...

... years of the regime. Porto’s death in 1968 coincided with an intensification of regime repression that made his style of moderate opposition increasingly untenable. Porto’s example inspired the more self-consciously rebellious new journalists of the subsequent stage of the dictatorship, particularly...

...Vanessa Freije Abstract In 1974, rumors spread that the Mexican government and foreign doctors were colluding to sterilize schoolchildren. The allegations sparked panic across the Valley of Mexico and prompted popular protests and school closures. Public officials and mainstream journalists...

...Kathryn A. Sloan Whereas honor may have protected journalists during the Restored Republic and Porfirio Díaz’s first term, Piccato shows beautifully how the very conception of honor transformed. The Mexican Penal Code of 1871 reoriented judges to rethink honor as a “juridical good” at the same...

..., Direccion de Cultura, Grandes periodistas cubanos, 5.] (Habana: P. Fernandezy Cia., 1945. Pp. 254. Paper.) Two favorable characteristics of the journalist of any period are his versatility and his broad background of information. Marti, who is thought of chiefly as a revolutionary and a literary man...

... explains the change in journalistic behavior and content. He shows that political liberalization matters at two notional moments. First, the government must significantly weaken censorship and tolerate more independent coverage, thereby opening the floodgates. Yet, as Lawson demonstrates, the government...

... favorable characteristics of the journalist of any period are his versatility and his broad background of information. Marti, who is thought of chiefly as a revolutionary and a literary man, is presented in this anthology as a journalist. The characteristics named are well il­ lustrated by the selections...

... University Press 2019 Robert Buffington analyzes how during the Porfiriato's final decade (1900–1910), “socialist-inspired” penny press journalists—a little-studied group who identified with the working class and whose writings circulated widely—critiqued the Porfirian state's modernizing project...

...Corinna Zeltsman The lines between literature and journalism blurred in nineteenth-century Mexico. This was not only because the categories of “writer” and “journalist” overlapped but also because Mexico City's press was the main forum for publishing literature. Printing editions was expensive...

...Robert H. Dix If one is looking for the report of a perceptive journalist who brings both enthusiasm and a sympathetic understanding to this subject, this portrayal of the triumphs and tribulations of President Frei may well be it. However, this is not a profound, analytical, critical, or even...

... . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In 2017, more Mexican journalists were killed than in any country other than Iraq and the active war zone of Syria. Reporters without Borders's 2018 rankings for press freedom placed Mexico 147th out of 180 countries—the lowest ranking of any country...

...Andrew Paxman Augmenting the book's narrative interest, Freije interweaves the stories of key journalists, famous chroniclers like Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska and less well-known but equally valiant reporters like Sara Lovera. Barring occasional jargon (though little by the standards...

... time this reviewer has believed that the career of Luis Cabrera and his contribution to the Mexican Revolution warrant scholarly evaluation. Journalist, legislator, minister, and advisor of presidents, Luis Cabrera was an intellectual who matured under the impact of the Mexican Revolution...