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The Antibusiness Basis of Leftist “Breakthrough” Presidencies in Neoliberal Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Leslie C. Gates, Alena Gericke, Diana Branduse, Jennifer K. Emery
Why did so many of Latin America’s leftist presidential hopefuls win at the turn of the twenty-first century? Why were they successful at breaking with their neoliberal political establishments when other leaders were not? For five of these leftists, antibusiness sentiment—not just frustration with political failures—boosted support. It catalyzed a backlash against the economic conditions and U.S.
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Territorial Peace Five Years After the Peace Agreement in Colombia: An Analysis of the Discourse of the Former FARC-EP Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jerónimo Ríos
The following paper examines the notion of territorial peace associated with the Peace Agreement signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. More specifically, the political discourse of the FARC-EP is analyzed through nine in-depth interviews with prominent members of the organization, who, in addition, have held or hold positions of political relevance in the formation heir to
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Understanding Brazil’s New Right and Its Impact on Social Policy Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lara Lisboa Farias
The new right is central to an understanding of Brazilian political and cultural reality with direct impacts on the development of social policy. A qualitative analysis based on a review of the literature with a focus on critical theory shows that the context of the rise of the new right in the country corroborates implementation of social policy focused on the moralization and criminalization of the
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The Independent Electronic Music Party Scene/Circuit in São Paulo: A Panorama of the 2010s Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Simone Luci Pereira, Oziel Gheirart
The independent electronic music scene/circuit in São Paulo—techno, house, and their subgenres—migrated from clubs to street parties or locations in central areas of the city in the 2010s. This sce...
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Rap and Brazilian Popular Music as Movements of Social Protest in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Hellen Oliveira
A social and historical reconstruction based on music observes the contemporary arrangement of Brazilian rap, its role in current social movements, and how its productions inform social and politic...
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Son jarocho urbano: A Sonic Shield in an Ambience of Dread Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Anthony W. Rasmussen
In Mexico City, son jarocho is a traditional music and dance form widely associated with nonviolent political activism. During the massive protests in response to the abduction of 43 students in 20...
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The U.S.-Mexican Border and Music as a “Border Crosser” Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Judith Adler Hellman
The ever-changing, always porous Mexican-U.S. border region has long been the site of intense and productive cultural and political exchange of every kind, particularly with respect to music. Today...
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The Human Rights Crisis in Mexico: Human Trafficking and Information Management Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Adriana González Veloz, Luis Gabriel Arango Pinto
An analysis of news items on human trafficking in Mexico published in digital newspaper portals and electronic versions of newspapers with national circulation concludes that the issue is of little...
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Chilean Exiles at El Sueño Existe: Liminality and Communitas in a Commemorative Space Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Ignacio Rivera
Examination of the experience of a group of Chilean exiles participating in El Sueño Existe, a contemporary Welsh festival inspired by the work of the Chilean artist Víctor Jara, suggests that by a...
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Not a Mexican Pink Tide: The AMLO Administration and the Neoliberal Left Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Ramón I. Centeno
For the first time, Mexico has a presidential administration that defines itself as “post-neoliberal,” but, although the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the most powerful the young Mex...
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“Water Pays for Water”: Sonora, An Affluent of National Privatization Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Fernanda Ibarra, Ramón I. Centeno
A status quo has been structured in Mexico that prioritizes the commercial value of water over its socio-environmental value. Sonora is a typical case of the transfer of a common good to the privat...
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Neoliberal Resource Nationalism: The Scramble for Mexico’s Hydrocarbons Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Tamara A. Wattnem
PEMEX, Mexico’s state oil company, was fiercely defended against privatization proposals throughout most of Mexico’s neoliberalization process, even as hundreds of state-owned enterprises were priv...
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The Far-Right Takeover in Brazil: Effects on the Health Agenda Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Maíra S. Fedatto
On October 28, 2018, the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro won Brazilian elections against the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party—PT) candidate Fernando Haddad after a vigorous social-media ...
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Bolsonaro’s Subservience to Trump, 2019 and 2020: A Demanding Agenda and Limited Reciprocity Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Laís Forti Thomaz, Tullo Vigevani
In the relationship between Brazil and the United States during the Bolsonaro and Trump administrations (2019 and 2020), Brazil advanced a demanding agenda that met with limited reciprocity. John K...
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The State, Accumulation, and Oaxaca’s Earthquake Survivors: Three Mechanisms of Inequality Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Alessandro Morosin
Ethnographic field interviews collected in three municipalities of Oaxaca explain how the Mexican state’s response to the Chiapas earthquake facilitated capital accumulation while intensifying indi...
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Left Government Strategies toward Business Groups and the Outcomes: The Mexican and Venezuelan Cases Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Steve Ellner
The progressive governments of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico and Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela followed a strategy of selective treatment to win over some businesspeople and n...
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Blowtorching Freirean Thought Out of Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Alagoas’s Escola Livre Law Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Thiago Pezzuto
The state of Alagoas’s Escola Livre law prohibited teachers from sharing with their students opinions that are political, partisan, religious, or philosophical in nature. Application to the analysi...
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Young Tzeltal Migrants from the Ejido to California’s Cities Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Tania Cruz-Salazar
The meaning of “youth” is changing among young Tzeltal migrants from Chiapas, Mexico, living in the U.S. state of California. Migration improves young people’s condition in terms of work, leisure t...
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Center-Left Parties and Developmental Regimes in Latin America: Assessing the Role of Democracy Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Pedro Perfeito da Silva, Julia Veiga Vieira Mancio Bandeira
Comparison of the paths of two countries with developmental regimes led by left-of-center parties, Chile and Mexico, shows that the democratic regime, Chile’s, had better social indicators than its...
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The Social Base of Bolsonarism: An Analysis of Authoritarianism in Politics Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri, Oswaldo E. do Amaral
The cohesion and resilience of the social base supporting Jair Bolsonaro is backed by an authoritarian perception of politics and society. Support for the president runs through all sectors of Braz...
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Territorial Dispossession in Mexico: Mining and the New Latifundism Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Aideé Tassinari
Three multibillionaire-owned consortia in Mexico—Carlos Slim Helu’s Minera Frisco, Germán Larrea’s Grupo México, and Alberto Baillères’s Industrias Peñoles—have played a leading role in the process...
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Wages, Price, and Profit: Protection and Value Capture in the Mercosur Automotive Industry Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Alejandro Fitzsimons, Sebastián Guevara
The expansion of the automotive industry in Argentina and Brazil and its regional integration can be attributed to determinants that differentiate them from other contemporary regionalization proce...
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Between Markets and Barracks: The Economic Policy Narrative of Brazilian Authoritarianism Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Niels Søndergaard
In recent years, a series of right-wing populists has ascended to power in both the Global North and the Global South. While these leaders frequently have provided challenges to liberal democracy, ...
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The Fight against Hunger in Brazil: From Politicization to Indifference Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Lourrene Maffra, Heather Hayes
Federal administrations have been addressing the problem of hunger in Brazil since the days of Lula da Silva. An extensive review of the literature shows that the fight against hunger reached its h...
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Radical Reorganization of Environmental Policy: Contemporaneous Evidence from Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Mauro Guilherme Maidana Capelari, Ana Karine Pereira, Nathaly M. Rivera, Suely Mara Vaz Guimaráes de Araújo
An overview of environmental policy in Brazil since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019 suggests that the rise to power of a new political elite has led to a radical change in Braz...
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The Movimento Brasil Livre and the New Brazilian Right in the Election of Jair Bolsonaro Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Marcelo Burgos Pimentel dos Santos, Claudio Luis de Camargo Penteado, Rafael de Paula Aguiar Araújo
The Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement) has been one of the main proponents of the new Brazilian right since its emergence after the June Days of 2013. Through the strategic use of social...
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Opening Pandora's Box: The Extreme Right and the Resurgence of Racism in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Joaze Bernardino-Costa
The emergence of Bolsonarism as a face of the extreme right in Brazil has come out of the articulation of several groups mobilized on social networks around a handful of key ideas including moral c...
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Protests for Women's Rights and against the Bolsonaro Administration Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Olivia Cristina Perez, Joana Tereza Vaz de Moura, Caroline Bandeira de Brito Melo
A review of the agendas of three recent Brazilian protests in defense of women's rights—#EleNão, International Women's Day, and the March of the Margaridas—and of the Bolsonaro government’s actions...
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Brazil and the “Bolsonaro Phenomenon”: Politics, the Economy, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019–2020 Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Gustavo Moura de Oliveira, Marília Verissimo Veronese
From a document corpus taken from leading journals recording the discourses and actions of President Jair Bolsonaro and his team in managing the economy, politics, and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is ...
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Brazil’s Cultural Battleground: Public Universities and the New Right Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Juliano Fiori, Pedro Fiori Arantes
After assuming the presidency in January 2019, Bolsonaro used the machinery of government to wage culture warfare. Public universities, sites of cultivation of a new moral radicalism of the left ov...
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Conspiracy Theories and Foreign Policy Narratives: Globalism in Jair Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Feliciano de Sá Guimarães, Davi Cordeiro Moreira, Irma Dutra de Oliveira e Silva, Anna Carolina Raposo de Mello
An analysis of more than 2,000 speeches and social media posts on foreign policy issues from four members of Jair Bolsonaro’s government from January 2019 to December 2020 suggests that a conspirac...
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Development Projects, Models of Capitalism, and Political Regimes in Brazil, 1988–2021 Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Carlos Eduardo Santos Pinho
The Bolsonaro government combines authoritarianism with a model of capitalism that destroys social rights. Despite the expansion of the neoliberal reforms put in place during the 1990s and the decl...
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Bolsonaro, the Last Colonizer Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Manuel Domingos Neto, Luis Gustavo Guerreiro Moreira
The traditional relationship between the Brazilian state and indigenous peoples is based on the state’s “protection.” Under the ultraconservative Bolsonaro government, the state has been taken over...
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Tongues of Fire: Silas Malafaia and the Historical Roots of Neo-Pentecostal Power in Bolsonaro’s Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Andre Pagliarini
Evangelical Christians and especially Neo-Pentecostals in Brazil have gone from accepting a position as junior partners in a broad governing coalition led by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’...
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Sebastián Lelio’s Una mujer fantástica: Intimate Citizenship, Trans Activism, and the Gender Identity Law in Chile Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Penny Miles
When Una mujer fantástica reached the height of Oscar success in March 2018, Chilean trans populations were fighting to secure legal recognition, and they were doing so at a time of political trans...
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The Rise of Fascism in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Armando Boito
Analysis of Brazil’s Bolsonaro administration, its most active social support base, and the political crisis that gave rise to it shows that, operating with a concept of fascism embedded in the Mar...
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State Violence against Mapuche Women in Chile, 1998–2018 Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Hillary Hiner, Karina González
Mapuche women both suffer and resist state violence in Chile, particularly with regard to neoliberal, multinational extractive projects in the southern regions and the militarized police that prote...
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Russian Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-first Century Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Ekaterina Kosevich
A comprehensive examination of Russia's foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that, while interstate relations varied in the first quarter of the twenty-first century with shifts ...
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The Fight to End Neoliberal Madness in Honduras Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Adrienne Pine
While limited in numbers, unionized workers at the two psychiatric hospitals in Honduras have had an important impact in the evolving struggle to improve conditions in their facilities and their co...
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The Effects of Postconflict Memory: Forced Sterilization in Peru Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Alejandra Ballón Gutiérrez, Mariana Ortega-Breña
Forced sterilization was common practice in Peru in the 1990s, especially under the national reproductive health and family planning program developed in the midst of the armed conflict (1980–2000)...
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False Generosity: A Freirean Reflection on Food Aid and Lima’s Comedores Populares Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Sarah Rachelle Renkert
Paulo Freire is known for his liberatory approach to education. Less discussed are his reflections on charitable giving, aid, and welfare programs, which he criticizes for their “false generosity.”...
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Culture and Indigenous Craftwork by Kuna Women: A Decolonial, Feminist Perspective Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Márcia Alves da Silva, Nick Ortiz
Craftwork, the production of embroideries known as molas, is the principal product of the Kuna people of Panama, and it is performed exclusively by women. Kuna craftwork sheds light on a model of s...
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Victims and Ex-Combatants in Colombia: The Aulas de Paz Model of Truth, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Juan Camilo Gaviria, Laura Baron Mendoza, James Meernik
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the interactions and relationships between victims of armed conflict and former members of armed nonstate actors. For many survivors, a critica...
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Implementing Limited E-participation on Mobility Policy in Bogotá Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Dustin Robertson
The ability of city dwellers to participate in decisions about mobility is a crucial expression of urban democracy. Optimists hope that e-participation—engagement of citizens through information an...
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La red que crece: Platform Politics and Social Struggle in Neoliberal Guatemala Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Eric Sippert
Free-trade policies have opened the Guatemalan economy to international forces and sparked massive internal and international migration, creating new forms of social struggle produced by and engagi...
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Poisonous Exports: Pesticides, Peasants, and Conservation Paradigms in Guatemala Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Liza Grandia
U.S. intervention in Guatemala’s agricultural autonomy over the past 80 years has been a toxic blend of commission and omission. From the Green Revolution on, the United States has exported both h...
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Defending Territory, Challenging Neoliberalism in Postwar Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance La Puya Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Patrick Illmer
Beyond the more spontaneous and reactive urban mass protests against corruption, the most sustained and explicit challenge to neoliberal policies in postwar Guatemala has been advanced by rural com...
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Power, Legitimacy, and Institutions in the October 2019 Uprising in Chile Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 César Guzmán-Concha
The 2019 uprising in Chile was the outcome of an erosion of political arrangements and the politicization of popular unrest that developed over three decades. Two explanations for it—the political ...
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Place, Violence, and Resistance: Impacts of Mining in the Chilean Andes Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Anita Carrasco
The indigenous community of Estación San Pedro has turned a sense of place into an act of resistance to the impacts of mining on its homeland in the Chilean Andes. In 2007 San Pedrinos wrote to the...
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Violence without Truce: Hondurans in the Gulf of Mexico Corridor Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 María Teresa Rodríguez L.
The Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco have for decades been linked to Central American migrations, largely through cross-border labor mobility. Today, however, the diversification of receiving ...
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Water and Socio-Environmental Crisis in Guatemala City’s Metropolitan Area Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Patrick Illmer
The water crisis in Guatemala City’s metropolitan area reflects the interaction of two dimensions of the deployment of power in low-income neighborhoods—the direct exercise of power over actors and...
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Building a Culture of Peace: The San José de Apartadó Peace Community Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Malely Linares Sánchez, Inmaculada Postigo Gómez, Román D. Moreno Fernández
The case of the Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó (San José de Apartadó Peace Community) in the Urabá region of Antioquia, Colombia—a geostrategic territory disputed by various actors in con...
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Brazil Facing More Than the Pandemic: Distribution and Exclusion in Economic Policy Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Ladislau Dowbor, Bruno Barbosa Cezar
The Brazilian economy followed an expansive and socially inclusive model from 2003 to 2013. As of 2014, a drastic reversion of policies took place with the introduction of the so-called austerity model. Comparing the two models, one more equalitarian and the other more wealth-concentrating, is useful for clarifying how key economic variables change. The evolution of key economic and social data covering
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Financial Capital and the Parliamentary Coup in Brazil: Division, Reunification, and Crisis of Hegemony Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 André Flores Penha Valle
The political action of financial capital and its class fractions in 2015–2016 resulted in the overthrow of President Dilma Rousseff and her replacement by Michel Temer's interim government. Financ...
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The Rise and Decline of Brazil as a Regional Power (2003–2016) Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Raúl Bernal-Meza
Brazil’s evolution as a regional emerging power began under Lula’s leadership and declined with Rousseff’s dismissal and the domestic political, economic, and leadership crisis that led to its loss...
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Does Outlaw Love Lead to Prison Time? Paths of Women Convicted of Drug Trafficking in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Ludmila Ribeiro, Natália Martino
The results of a multimethod study carried out in the largest female penitentiary in the state of Minas Gerais challenge the premise, often mentioned in the Brazilian literature, that women arreste...
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International Institutions, Public Education, and Student Insurgency in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Mônica Dias Martins
Following the 2016 coup in Brazil, strategies for avoiding the state’s constitutional duty to provide free quality public secular education intensified. The government’s education policy has focused on serving the private sector by commodifying education and training a workforce adapted to a job market subservient to the powers that control the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Education
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Worker Resistance in the Formation of the Maquiladora Enclave: in Honduras Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Mateo Crossa Niell
In contrast to the triumphalist corporate view that regularly champions the maquiladora industry as a lever of economic progress for Honduras, the maquila has caused fragmentation of production and widespread pauperization of social life, epitomizing an enclave economy aimed at international markets and threatening the very lives of workers. Substantial worker resistance has been characteristic of
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Land Speculation by International Financial Capital in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Maria Luisa Mendonça, Fábio Teixeira Pitta
The global economic crisis in 2007–2008 intensified the role of financial capital in farmland markets around the world. Speculation in land facilitates the circulation of financial capital in a context of international economic instability. This trend is stimulated by foreign pension funds in search of new assets. The economic crisis generated a change in the profile of agribusiness in Brazil through
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Transnational Corporations and Capitalists from the Global South: Natura & Co. and the IEDI Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Thiago Aguiar, Pedro Micussi
The Brazil-based company Natura & Co. became a transnational corporation, the world’s fourth-largest cosmetics corporation, by restructuring its Brazilian operations, becoming a publicly traded corporation, and expanding its international presence with the acquisition of the Australian company Aesop, the British company The Body Shop, and the iconic Avon International. The political action of one of