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The Divided House Trans-Divided

The best way to update the interamerican or “transamerican” political perspectives chosen by the author in her prologue to this path-breaking work is to look back in the rearview mirror of Hugo Chávez’s recent demonizing of George W. Bush at the UN in contrast with her discussion of Ronald Reagan’s proclamation of the 1983–84 “Bicentennial Year of the Birth of Simon Bolivar.” Since Reagan’s high noon and across the writing of Brickhouse’s book and in the wake of 9/11 a hardening of such regional gestures and substantive geopolitical agendas has taken place with respect to Venezuela and Mexico in particular. From the mild stuff of Reagan’s ghost writer’s eulogy to Bolívar (rendered inside-out, as a partner of incipient hemispheric globalization, instead of a leader and promoter of two equal hemispheres, one Southern American and another Northern, facing off in mutual hegemonic bilateral parity) to Chávez fueling up his populist base by claiming that the twin towers at the World Trade Center were destroyed by elements inside the US government—meaning by Bush himself. The tirade came in response to the Bush Administration’s increasing opposition to Chavez and his lifeline support of Cuba in