Tag: Latin America
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.
Bolivia: Key Points About the Failed Military Coup and its Aftermath
Pablo Stefanoni analyzes the struggles within the MAS and economic context leading to June’s failed military coup in Bolivia.
¡No fue el fuego, fue el estado!
Carla Macal reports on decolonial feminist organizing against gender-based violence in Guatemala.
Nos tenemos entre nosotres
Camila Valle details the history of self-managed abortion, showing that we have always healed collectively and that communities of care are where our power lies.
Milei as President
Sergio García analyzes the conditions and unstable ground of Milei’s presidency in Argentina, and offers a strategy for left development in response to failed progressivism.
A Return on Our Investment
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine was established 200 years ago. U.S.-promoted border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention’s newest evolution.
Making Everything a Feminist Issue
Camila Valle on the violence of Argentina’s neoliberalism, and the radicalizing feminist response that makes everything a feminist issue.
Readings on Feminism and Neoliberalism
Verónica Gago develops the theory and strategy of the feminist response to neoliberalism in Latin America.
Five Abortion Strategies from the Argentinian Perspective
Lucila Szwarc offers five strategies from the abortion struggle in Argentina for the post-Roe U.S. and for abortion rights seekers globally
Looting, Dispossessing, Incarcerating
How is the ecological fallout from the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil related to the struggle against prisons?