Kalman Silvert Award 2022:
Ronald H. Chilcote
Video recording of Ronald Chilcote’s talk about “The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist” and receipt of the 2022 Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America.
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No es una exageración decir que el presidente de Estados Unidos —Trump, para ser preciso— quien más ha abrazado la noción de que América Latina es “nuestro patio trasero”, es también quien más está alejando a los latinoamericanos, todo ello en nombre de la lucha contra China.
La influencia de EE.UU. en América Latina está en declive – Rebelion
rebelion.org
La influencia de EE.UU. en Am�...It’s no exaggeration to say that the U.S. president, Trump that is, who has most embraced the notion that Latin America is our backyard, is doing the most to alienate Latin Americans, all in the name of combating the Chinese. This is what the following article in Jacobin argues:
Trump intenta humillar al mundo, y en parte lo está consiguiendo. Pero hay con quien no ha podido. Con China no ha podido. Hua Bin lo explica aquĂ, pero con un mal pronĂłstico: quizás la guerra se acerca.
🗞️El Topo Express
www.elviejotopo.com/topoexpress/el-rey-trump-es-el-emperador-sin-ropa/
🚨New LAP podcast!🚨
LAP contributors Edgars MartĂnez Navarrete and Richard Stahler-Sholk join the pod to discuss the July 2024 issue of Latin American Perspectives, “Indigenous Autonomies Confronting Contemporary Capitalism: Part 1.” Themes explored include Indigenous struggles against capitalism, emancipatory education in Bolivia, the historical roots of Brazil’s Indigenous movement, autonomy in Indigenous and campesino movements, and Indigenous ecopolitics in post-peace Guatemala (Link in bio)
LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
MISSION:Â To encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. We make a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints.
NEW ISSUE
The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America
Issue Editors:
Daniela GarcĂa Grandon
Andrew Smolski
Jan. 2024
Historically, the agrarian question in Latin America was primarily concerned with addressing the unequal distribution of land and rural poverty through redistribution. Different types of agrarian reform policies in the twentieth century, frequently with different goals, tried to dismantle large estates owned by a few wealthy elites and allocate the land among landless peasants, small-scale farmers, or Indigenous communities.
