Tag: Latin America
The Criminalization of Opposition Politics in Cuba
Why did the Cuban regime adopt the Soviet model, indiscriminately repressing political opposition – including socialists, anarchists, and other leftists?
Extracting the Andes
Jeffery R. Webber reviews Martín Arboleda’s exceptionally ambitious Planetary Mine..
Brazil’s Perfect Storm
Ruy Braga analyzes the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the government’s neo-Pentecostal popular base.
Crisis and the Global Factory at the US-Mexico Border
In light of the precarity of maquiladoras, Gabrielle Solis looks at the condition of workers along the border during the pandemic.
Is Bolsonaro About to Fall?
Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos argues that Bolsonaro’s political demise is on the horizon. In this first installment of his two-part essay, he explores the utility and limits of anticorruption discourse as it has been deployed by the Bolsonaro regime.
¡Fuera Piñera!
Jeffery R. Webber analyzes the 2019–20 round of social struggles in Chile. Toward the eradication of all traces of the Pinochet years! Fuera Piñera!