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Carlos Forment

Carlos Forment is director of the Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Vida Pública in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of Democracy In Latin America, 1760-1900 (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

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The democratic dribble: Buenos Aires's politics of football

The passionate loyalty of "Portenos" for their city's soccer clubs is more than a matter of familial and local tradition, says Carlos Forment: amid social and economic crisis it becomes a source of the remaking of civic identity.