by maripuerta | May 6, 2021 | English, Politics
The Arizona Republican Party, via the state Senate, has commissioned a trio of companies to conduct yet another recount in Maricopa County, against the advice of electoral authorities, and without the participation of the Arizona Secretary of State’s...
by maripuerta | Apr 15, 2021 | English, Politics
Former President Trump came into office as an anti-illegal immigration champion. However, one of his many contributions to a dysfunctional immigration system is that he didn’t reduce illegal immigration, in fact, it was stabilized under his administration. In a...
by maripuerta | Apr 14, 2021 | English, Politics
These past two weeks have been extremely difficult for an important part of the country. The Chauvin trial has been a painful daily reminder of the unsolved racial divide among Americans. If that was not enough stress, the video with the brutal details of the abuse by...
by maripuerta | Dec 11, 2018 | English
Prepared for delivery at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association October 10-13, 2018, Orlando, Florida The rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism (ECRI, 2016) has dominated the political, social and economic debate,...
by maripuerta | Apr 3, 2017 | English
The Venezuelan political crisis has rapidly evolved into a constitutional disaster, even as the Supreme Court seemed to be in damage control mode a day after its decision to dissolve the National Assembly unleashed a wave of local and international rejection. The very...
by maripuerta | Feb 3, 2017 | English
I started teaching college in Venezuela in 1996, as a young Political Scientist my goal was to get a tenured position, following the footsteps of my Father. It took me a while, starting as a Lecturer and after several years of waiting for the budget, until I finally...
