Latin American Perspectives
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Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal, founded in 1974, for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas.
Latin American Perspectives
1y ago
By Hilary Goodfriend- Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Riverside Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center
When neoliberalism began its bloody march across Latin America, its advocates insisted that the sacrifices of human labor and civil rights that tended to accompany its implementation would be compensated by an eventual global convergence that would free the region from underdevelopment. Deregulation, privatization, and free trade, they said, would eventually close the gap between the decolonized world and their former metropolitan centers.
Our present, ho ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by LAP Editor, Steve Ellner
Published in NACLA: Report on the Americas. Vol. 54, no. 1
On April 14, 2002, the folly of the abortive coup staged against the government of Hugo Chávez three days earlier was clear, but the depth of its long-lasting impact was not. The April 11 coup was a milestone event that shaped politics in Venezuela and the region for the next two decades. Most important, the coup and the events that immediately followed it set off polarization marked by the radicalization of the government and the opposition, which impacted not only national politics but also gover ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by LAP Editor, Jeffery R. Webber
Posted by SPECTRE Journal
Premature obituaries of Chilean neoliberalism abound on the heels of the December 19 run-off presidential election. Gabriel Boric of Apruebo Dignidad (Approve Dignity, AD) – a coalition of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front, FA) and the Partido Comunista de Chile (Communist Party of Chile, PCC) – secured a surprisingly robust victory over his far-right opponent, José Antonio Kast (aka, JAK), of Frente Social Cristiano (Christian Social Front, FSC) – a coalition of Kast’s Partido Republicano (Republican Party, PR) and the Partido Conserv ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by LAP Editor, William I. Robinson
Posted by NACLA
With seven opposition presidential candidates imprisoned and held incommunicado in the months leading up to the vote and all the remaining contenders but one from miniscule parties closely allied with President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the results of Nicaragua’s November 7 presidential elections were a foregone conclusion. The government declared after polls closed that Ortega won 75 percent of the vote and that 65 percent of voters cast ballots. The independent voting rights organization Urnas Abiert ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by Steve Ellner
Posted by Venezuelanalysis.com
It seems just yesterday that Eliot Abrams declared the Trump administration was "working hard" to oust President Nicolas Maduro from office. Now Abrams (currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations), along with the Biden administration, is urging the Venezuelan opposition to participate in the state and local elections slated for November 21. Washington’s change of tack, however, is a far cry from renouncing the right to intervene in Venezuela’s internal affairs.
Not surprisingly, Washington has prevailed on the rightist ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
from our LAP Classroom Series!
Latin American Extractivism
Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective
Edited by Steve Ellner
A review by Angelo Rivero Santos
NACLA
On September 26, 2000, during the inauguration of the second summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEP), President Hugo Chávez urged its members to recognize that the “worst environmental catastrophe facing the world is human poverty.” He called for unity through the promotion of a “social and egalitarian model of economic development to eradicate poverty” in member cou ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
edited by William I. Robison
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/48/6
Debate is heating up among scholars over the ongoing crisis in Nicaragua. For some, the Ortega-Murillo government is a continuation of the 1980s Sandinista revolution while for others it is a corrupt and nepotistic regime that has promoted capitalist expansion while carrying out harsh repression against its opponents. This symposium brings together 10 scholars who debate the crisis at a time when it is generating deep fissures among the left and progressives in and out of the academy.
This issue also includes two ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
hosted by NACLA and WGNC
with introductory remarks from William I. Robinson, LAP Editor and editor of LAP's latest issue The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Challenge to the International Left.
The crisis in Nicaragua has divided the Left in the United States and throughout the Americas. Significant sectors of this international Left claim that President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo represents a leftist project for Nicaragua that should be defended, and that the United States is trying to overthrow the government. This event aims to address those claims from an explicitly left ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by Steve Ellner
LAP’s Political Report 1459 titled “The Washington Consensus Arrives in Brazil,” takes an uncritical look at Jair Bolsonaro and his policies. At first glance, the article appears to be neutral and the authors, Marc Castillo and Sírio Sapper, impartial analysts. Neither of these initial impressions are the case and indeed elsewhere both authors have defended the policies of the Bolsonaro government. A careful reading of Political Report 1459 reveals that the article, albeit for the most part subtly, justifies Bolsonaro’s policies and his presidency. At the same time, there ..read more
Latin American Perspectives
2y ago
by Esteban Morales Domínguez
Although it still causes many prejudices, misunderstandings and challenges, there is no choice but to pay attention to skin color. Above all, in its consideration within the media and national statistics.
Cuban society is a multiracial society, or rather, multicolored, mestizo. And that reality has to be registered statistically. Not by handling the Census as a simply numerical matter, but as a cultural demographic one.
It is about the fact that color is a legacy of slavery. It is not possible to avoid it, since it has marked Cuban society since its origins.
Whe ..read more