2019 Open class
Federico Fuentes, Pablo Leighton and Fernando López hosted an open class at the University of New South Wales on July 25, 2019, on the topic of the Pink Tide, and specifically on the Venezuelan, Argentinean and Brazilian political processes.
Federico Fuentes - On Venezuela
Federico Fuentes - On Venezuela
Federico Fuentes - On Venezuela
Federico Fuentes is Assistant Editor of Links - Journal of Socialist Renewal. He is a writer for Green Left Weekly and is part of the Venezuelanalysis.com editorial collective. In Caracas, Venezuela, he was based at the Fundación Centro Internacional Miranda as a resident researcher investigating twenty-first century political instruments and popular participation in public management. Fuentes has co-authored three books with Marta Harnecker on the new left in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay and co-authored, with Michael Fox and Roger Burbach, Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism. He was a contributing author to "Latin America's Radical Left", edited by Steve Ellner. His articles have appeared on TeleSUR, ZNet, Counterpunch, MRZine, Venezuelanalysis.com, Aporrea, Rebelión, America XXI, Comuna, and other publications and websites in both Spanish and English.
Pablo Leighton - On the Pink Tide and Hugo Chávez
Pablo Leighton researches the concept and practices of propaganda in 20th century and current media, and specifically on the history of audiovisual culture in Chile and Latin America since the 1970s. He has taught at several universities in Australia, United States, Chile and Central America, and has worked as film director, screenwriter and editor in fiction and documentary productions (see his film work here). He co-edited with Fernando López the book 40 years are nothing: History and memory of the 1973 coups d’etat in Uruguay and Chile (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK), a selection from works presented at the October 2013 conference 40 years are nothing. He has published the essays: Archives and narratives for the coup-history of Chile (Southland Papers 2018 & Neo Journal, Macquarie University, 2008); Televisión + estado de sitio: la perentoria doble cadena del golpe en Chile (Ediciones Escaparate, Santiago, Chile, 2012); ASIS & ASIO in Chile: transparency and double standards four decades after the coup (co-written with Florencia Melgar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2015); The Celebration: violence and consent in the first anniversary of the Chilean coup (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2015); and Territories of Violence: State, Marginal Youth, and Public Security in Honduras – book review (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2016). He holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Macquarie University, Sydney, and in Latin American Studies from Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He also has a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, USA).
Fernando López is a Doctor in History from the University of New South Wales and author of the book The Feathers of Condor: Transnational State Terrorism, Exiles and Civilian Anticommunism in South America (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2016). The latter determines why the military regimes of Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia agreed to formally launch Operation Condor in November 1975 and, therefore, transnationalize State terrorism. He has a Bachelor of Arts and Honours in History (BA HONS HIST) from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. His Honours thesis studied the origins of the Uruguayan leftist National Liberation Movement- Tupamaros (MLN-T) and its connections with the sugarcane workers’ trade union. His areas of research focus on contemporary Latin American History and the Cold War in Latin America. He co-edited with Pablo Leighton the book 40 years are nothing: History and memory of the 1973 coups d’etat in Uruguay and Chile (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK), a selection from works presented at the October 2013 conference 40 years are nothing.