

COMMENT: Spring 2010
By Harley Shaiken | Introducing the Spring 2010 issue of the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies and commenting on the Spring 2010 semester.

BERKELEY WELCOMES BACHELET: The Chilean Path to Progressive Change
By Michelle Bachelet | Reflecting on her time in office as president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet talks about the challenges facing Latin America’s young democracies.

U.S.-MEXICO FUTURES FORUM: IMMIGRATION: The Long and Winding Road
By Brian Palmer-Rubin | Reporting on the immigration session of the 2010 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum which featured Amalia García Medina, Governor of Zacatecas; Maria Echaveste, co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group and lecturer and Berkeley Law; and Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA.

U.S.- MEXICO FUTURES FORUM: Immigration Viewed From the Other Side
By Jude Joffe-Block | Covering a special session of the 2010 U.S.–Mexico Futures in which participants met with some of the townspeople of Jerez, Zacatecas.

U.S.- MEXICO FUTURES FORUM: We're All Arizonans Now - The Fallout of SB 1070
By Tamar Jacoby | Analyzing the political repercussions of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law with Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA.

MEXICO'S CENTENNIALS: Cárdenas: Making and Teaching History
By Jude Joffe-Block | Reporting on Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’ stay in Berkeley and his role both as a maker and as a teacher of history.

MEXICO'S CENTENNIALS: The Promise and Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
By Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas | Offering his perspective on the Mexican Revolution and what it means for Mexico today.

ART: Mutual Admiration, Mutual Exploitation: Rivera, Ford and the Detroit Industry Murals
By Graham Beal | Providing an analysis both of the history behind Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals and the murals themselves.

MEXICO'S CENTENNIALS: Exile and Murder in Mexico
By Bernard M. Patenaude | Describing Leon Trotsky’s exile and the last days before his assassination in Mexico.

MEXICO'S CENTENNIALS: Limited Independence, Limited Democracy
By Lucas Novaes and Sinaia Urrusti Frenk | Reporting on historian Lorenzo Meyer’s irreverent assessment of the legacy of Mexico’s War of Independence and Revolution.

THE BORDER: Permeable Membrane
By Tyche Hendricks | Discussing the complexity of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands with journalist and Berkeley lecturer Tyche Hendricks.

ENVIRONMENT: Surviving the Political Storms
By Paul Steinberg |Examining the difficulties faced by environmental reformers in states subject to chronic political turnover.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Refuge From Femicide: Facing Gendered Violence in Guatemala
By Anthony Fontes | Documenting the case of Rodi Alvarado, a Guatemalan woman who sought asylum in the United States to escape her abusive husband with the help of attornery Karen Musalo.

MUSIC: Cantos Populares Maderistas
Lyrics | Commemorating the defeat of Porfirio Díaz in Ciudad Juárez and a fallen martyr of the uprising, this revolutionary-era handbill contains “Popular Maderist Songs.”