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CaTRIP (Cancer Translational Research Information Platform) allows users to query across caGrid data services, join on common data elements and view their. Shannon O'Neil, is someone whose opinion matters, being the Latin American expert for the Council on Foreign Relations. Steve Ellner (Universidad de Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela), who SHOULD be listened to in the halls of power, but, alas, I know only from Democracy Now and his excellent blog (steveellnersblog.blogspot.com) has, better than. Sep 01, 2015 This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue Queue.
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Shannon O’Neil, is someone whose opinion matters, being the Latin American expert for the Council on Foreign Relations. Steve Ellner (Universidad de Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela), who SHOULD be listened to in the halls of power, but, alas, I know only from Democracy Now and his excellent blog (steveellnersblog.blogspot.com) has, better than I ever could, responded to Ms. O’Neil’s recent article for Bloomberg, which suggests the same “mainstream” logic used to justify intervention in Venezuela could be applied to Mexico… and the reason I’ve been so obsessed lately with US media coverage of the Bolivarian Republic.
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Shannon O’Neil kicks off her article for Bloomberg titled “López Obrador is Dismantling Democracy in Mexico” with the astounding statement that between AMLO (López Obrador) and Jair Bolsonaro “it is Mexico’s democracy that is under greater threat.” Never mind that Brazil is rapidly degenerating into the repressive state that Bolsonaro’s neo-fascist rhetoric and glorification of the 1964 coup signaled. And never mind that AMLO is really being called out because he has implemented nothing more than timid, but much needed, changes in Mexico.
The article goes on to point to AMLO’s “power grab” in the form of strengthening the executive branch at the expense of the legislative branch, even though his Morena party controls congress. He is also rebuked for going beyond the established system of electoral democracy by calling referendums which are allegedly tantamount to demagoguery. These are the same accusations made by Jorge Castaneda in his co-authored Leftovers in 2006 which called AMLO a “populist” (in the bad sense of the word) and a member of the “bad left.” Nowhere does Castañeda or O’Neil explain why referendums are inherently undemocratic.
The article also claims that AMLO is riding roughshod over established institutions such as the judicial branch. Nowhere is mention made, however, of what Trump calls the “deep state” which will obstruct any meaningful change in Mexico and eventually sabotage AMLO’s rule.
O’Neil also warns that AMLO “is building a parallel labor confederation to challenge the Mexican Workers Confederation, long allied to the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).” The implication is that any attempt to alter established institutions is tantamount to demagoguery. Nowhere is mention made, however, of the fact that the Mexican Workers Confederation is notoriously corrupt and part of the populist (also in the bad sense of the word) network which was institutionalized in Mexico over half a century ago.
O’Neil ends the article saying that the system of checks and balances, which AMLO is allegedly dismantling, is “much harder to build than to break.” I am also a firm believer in the system of checks and balances, but not when who is doing the checking and balancing is corrupt and closely tied to the nation’s elites.
O’Neil’s accusations against AMLO bare an uncanny similarity with the narrative used against Chávez from the very outset of his rule in 1999. The real playbook which has been revealed by so many experiences of progressive governments in third world countries over the years consists of Washington playing back seat and maintaining a low profile while it encourages the local elite consisting of business interests, traditional parties and politicians, the church hierarchy, and the international and local media to promote destabilization in the name of resisting demagoguery, caudillismo and authoritarianism. If that doesn’t work, and if AMLO holds his ground, then Washington will shift into second gear by playing an increasingly activist role. That’s what Venezuela has taught and that’s what we can expect in the case of Mexico. O’Neil’s article sheds light on the future scenario.
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Luego de las guerras pol�ticas que han asolado a Macondo, y, cuando se anunciaban p�blicamente d�as de paz y tranquilidad, comienzan a aparecer en los muros unos papeles que revelan secretos y verg�enzas, verdaderos y falsos, de las gentes del pueblo. Poco despu�s cae un diluvio b�blico y el alcalde decide elegir una v�ctima propiciatoria. Pero nadie se oculta la verdad: l..more
Published August 31st 2010 by Vintage Espanol (first published 1961)
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Oct 11, 2008
Ahmad Sharabiani rated it
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Shelves: 20th-century, spanish, latin-american, short-stories
La mala hora = In Evil Hour, Gabriel García Márquez
In Evil Hour, is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1962. In Evil Hour takes place in a nameless Colombian village. when a man kills his wife's supposed lover after reading of her infidelity, the mayor decides that action is called for. He declares martial law and sends soldiers (who are actually armed thugs) to patrol the streets. He also uses the 'state of unrest' as an excuse to crack down on his political..more
Jul 22, 2015Barry Pierce rated it it was ok · review of another edition
This is considered to be García Márquez's first novel (if you discount Leaf Storm and No One Writes to the Colonel as just long short stories). My overall problem with this book is that García Márquez has written an entirely conventional novel.
As we know, Gabo and conventionality don't go together. He's the master of magical realism and in In Evil Hour he's written an unusually average and middling novel. It doesn't work. It's like as if Nabokov, after writing Pale Fire, had gone on and written..more
Apr 08, 2018Fabian rated it liked it · review of another edition
Another tale of an ailing monarch/all-powerful leader and the residents* of his town; animal corpses drowned in water or baked in heat. But, for the caliber we see LATER in One Hundred Years of Solitude, it remains both underdeveloped and unremarkable. It is Magical Realism, sans the magic. That certain Latin American special ingredient is not present here, and boy is it missed.
In Evil Hour absolutely nothing happens. Communication is impossible--even complicity in the conspiracy doesn't occur o..more
Apr 01, 2010TK421 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The setting for this magical realism novel is a nameless village in Colombia. But Marquez’s writing really makes it a village in any country of the world. (I read this just after 9/11 and the parallels of the actions between the mayor of this unnamed village and the government of the United States was eerie, to say the least.) Ya see, someone is leaving notes all over the town about the dirty little secrets of some of the villagers. For the most, people shrug this off as nothing more than a very..more
Mar 18, 2018Daniel Chaikin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is maybe a really good short little novel you don't need to read. It's Marquez's first novel, but he left it in a suitcase and it wasn't published for a couple years (may have been written in 1955), and then when it was published it wasn't even as Marquez wrote it. The Spanish was altered to 'proper Castilian' in the 1962 first edition. But it sets up an atmosphere and character set that would lead to several of his important short stories and later works and that's maybe where its main val..more
Jul 14, 2009Vishwas rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I am glad that this was not the first Garcia Marquez book I read. It was the first book he wrote though. And it shows.. All great artists have to start somewhere.
This book is more about the raw talent in the author which was refined in his seminal 'One Hundred Years..' probably after the many mistakes he has made here. The characters are all interesting and have two sides to them. No one here is entirely good or entirely evil. Similarly, the little town is an allegory to military rule, lazy an..more
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Judy rated it
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Shelves: literature-in-translation, books-from-1962, 20th-century-fiction
Book # 4 of those read from my 1962 list in August. Most of the time I read for pleasure and most of the books I read do give me pleasure. Sometimes I read because of learning goals I have set for myself. That second reason is why I read this one.
The great and wonderful Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novel was not great or wonderful to me. If I hadn't already read and loved One Hundred Years of Solitude as well as Love in the Time of Cholera, this short one might have put me off the author for..more
Jan 04, 2017
Steven rated it
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Shelves: books-i-own, latin-american, literature, spanish
'You don't know what it's like…getting up every morning with the certainty that they're going to kill you and ten years pass without their killing you.' (156)
In Evil Hour was first published in 1962, and written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude. Some of the characters that are introduced in La Mala Hora will reappear (more splendidly) in Cien Años de Soledad. The story revolves around a sleepy, rain-drenched, heat-soaked Colombian river town possessed by evil. Lampoons have been appeari..moreJul 31, 2013Kelly rated it liked it · review of another edition
Let me first say that I do recommend reading this book at least once and with a clear idea of what you'll be getting into. I think the biggest flaws of this book lie within a loss in translation. I read the English translation and there are aspects of this book that I really enjoyed such as the setting and the characters. Enough so that I look forward to reading his other books. My only complaint about this book is I feel as though I just read something incomplete. Like a draft of unfinished ide..more
Jul 26, 2008Phoebe rated it liked it · review of another edition
After reading other reviews, I breathed a sigh of relief..I am not alone in my feelings about In Evil Hour.
I was wondering the choppy, jumbled impression i got from the novel was just because I was reading it at odd intervals over an extended period of time, rather than zipping through it. However, it seems that other people had the same feeling about it. It wasn't 'bad' by any means - there were still things to enjoy about the book, but I guess when it comes to Marquez I really am more of a su..more
Jan 06, 2010Rashaan rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Who's been posting slanderous bills across a small town?
Pitched into the midst of a familiar Marquezian village, we shadow each restless character through a loosely mysterious maze of whodunnit, as someone has been viciously lampooning the townspeople, publicly outing the dirty deeds and secret desires of the locals, and everyone is on edge to find the culprit.
Father Ángel, the pastor, anchors the town and keeps the listless souls from floating away in the troubled waters of their own self-pit..more
Jan 11, 2016Cody rated it liked it · review of another edition
Very fun little parable about the perils and powers of suggestion as well as the corruptive nature of authority and status. I see that some reviewers lamented the fact that In Evil Hour lacks any 'magical-realism' aspects. While this is certainly true, it does not detract from the fact the Garcia-Marquez tells a tightly-paced story whose subtext is elusive and nuanced. If someone must grow wings, it may not be your bag. If you appreciate the man's inimitable prose--which is accounted for in abun..more
Jan 05, 2012Jason rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Nothing special here. Or at least I totally missed it and/or didn't understand it. I LOVED One Hundred Years of Solitude, but this just fell flat for me. I didn't really come to care much about any of the characters. Marquez's language and Rabasa's translation is as beautiful as ever, and that's what kept me reading. There really wasn't much of a plot at all (and there definitely wasn't any resolution!), and the narrator kept jumping around to too many characters for me to follow. I'll be saying..more
Oct 15, 2017Jo rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I was completely immersed in this book. The writing (and translation) is so good that I could feel the heat, smell the smells, hear the music and feel I know and understand each character. There are lots of characters; you get a kind of snapshot of life on this island with the complexities of religion, morality and oppression. It certainly could have elaborated and developed the main individuals more but I don't think it mattered.
I was a bit confused by the very last sentence.. 🤷♀ ..more
May 29, 2017James F rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Garcia Marquez's third novel (the reviews say his first, probably because the first two, La hojarasca and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba are too short to meet a formal definition of 'novel'), this is written in the same general style as the first two, which is to say realist in its depictions of the characters and situations, modernist in its technique (no single protagonist, shifts from viewpoint to viewpoint frequently, leaves events ambiguous.) There's no 'magical realism', so I guess t..more
Mar 23, 2018Yasmine Fathy rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Mar 08, 2015Larou added it · review of another edition
After reading Liam Howley’s The Absurd Demise of Poulnabrone I felt the sudden (if not completely inexplicable) urge to read a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an author I’ve been wanting to read more of for quite some time, and as I’m a sucker for chronology, I grabbed his first published novel, In Evil Hour (only to find out later that he had published two novellas before that… ah well).
It is a very short novel but has a felt two dozen protagonists, so it is not always easy to keep everyone..more
Jun 30, 2014Jacqueline Escobar rated it liked it · review of another edition
Finding books with such beautiful writing makes me want to cry tears of joy, and this is definitely one of those books. The detail that Gabriel Garcia Marquez puts into his writing paints such a vibrant picture. He even makes the way his characters eat sound like a work of art. I LOVE IT. The writing flows so well, the choices of words he uses can change a sentence into something spectacular. His writing breathes life into this book and it's wonderful to witness.
Other than the writing, it was l..more
Mar 12, 2019Lady Jane rated it liked it · review of another edition
It was the perfect time to read this novel because it has so many parallels to current times. Like us in L.A. recently, they're having bad rainy weather; families are being destroyed with rumors that can neither be proven nor disproven (which reminds me of the recent documentary accusing Michael Jackson of even more abuse); and folks are extreme on politics, with only a couple of impartial ones who see the big picture.
The story takes place somewhere in an unnamed Colombian town and it revolves a..more
Sep 16, 2016Carol rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Marquez's first full length novel, and it shows. Really enjoyed some earlier works such as the very moving novella, almost Dickensian in theme 'No One Writes to the Colonel' and some of the short stories in 'Big Mama's Funeral', but 'In Evil Hour' for me has superficial characterisation, loose structure and a clunky style. Many characters have appeared in previous stories and will be developed properly in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. 'In Evil Hour' is like a poor dress rehearsal. Am I allowe..more
Aug 12, 2010Katharine rated it liked it · review of another edition
This is my least favorite of his books. I gave it 3 stars because of the stunning descriptions of the scenery and very intricate character development. However, it was very difficult to keep track of the secondary characters. And the ending left me wondering what the hell happened! It's not a keeper.
Mar 30, 2014Albany rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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As with many of Garcia Marquez's works, it's more about the journey than the conclusion. What most struck me though, more than the way we get to explore each character through small glimpses, is the similarity the small town of Macondo has with modern-day latin american countries. Can't wait to read 100 Years of Solitude and continue the story.
May 22, 2016R rated it liked it · review of another edition
I don't really have any strong feelings either way towards this book. It's not Marquez' best work (nowhere near the standard of One Hundred Years of Solitude) and the translation is frequently clumsy. It's an interesting and predictable tale about the use and abuse of political power but there's not much else to be found here. Adequate.
Jul 24, 2008Rebecca rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I enjoyed this--it was a very quick read. The characters are, as always, very colorful, and Garcia Marquez is so good at making you feel like your in the setting. That said, funny how lately I prefer the Marquez copycats to Marquez himself! (eg early deBernieres, Allende)
Sep 05, 2015
Büşra rated it
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Shelves: magical-realism, latin-american-literature
Even though I usually enjoy Gabriel Garcia Marquez books, I think I'm a bit disappointed with this one. It was beautifully written as the other GGM books but I was let down by the end. Still, it was short and sweet. It may not be my favorite but it was enjoyable.
Mar 05, 2011John rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Spooky succession of scenes in a tiny jungle town. The weird custom of anonymously posting 'pasquines' adds to the weirdness for foreign readers.
Jun 01, 2012Kristine rated it really liked it · review of another edition
fascinating understanding of human beings at their absolute worst, and a historical/cultural view of Colombia in the mid- 20th century that is enlightening.
Sep 14, 2016Sue rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Oct 03, 2016Michaela rated it liked it · review of another edition
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I think if I were more familiar with Colombian history and politics, I would've liked this more.
Jun 01, 2011Safae rated it liked it · review of another edition
I love GGM but this book wasn't what i expected .it is long and mostly boring .
although i did like the Mayor :p is is a strong and perturbed character perturbed and perturbing
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as 'Gabo' in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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