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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

founded in 1974, is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

MISSION: 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.

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NEW ISSUE

The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question in Latin America

Issue Editors:

Daniela GarcĂ­a Grandon

Joana Salém Vasconcelos

Andrew Smolski

Jan. 2024

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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.

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PODCASTS

New LAP Editor’s Choice Podcast: Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution w/ Joana SalĂ©m Vasconcelos

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Historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos joins us to discuss her book Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution: Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism (Brill 2023; Haymarket 2023). Translated from Portuguese and originally published in Brazil in 2016, this meticulously researched study unpacks the complicated political and economic challenges Cuba has faced since its 1959 revolution, demonstrating why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba has persisted. For those interested in Cuba, the Cold War, and the political economy of agrarian reform in Latin America, this is an absolute must-read!

Listen to past podcasts HERE.

Current LAP issues contain thirty-three (37) open access articles.  

1. Verónica Silva “A New dawn or a False Hope for Mexico’s Left: Overcoming Neoliberal Legacies in an Uncertain World.” March 2023  VIEW ISSUE

2.  Richard Coughlin, “The Fourth Transformation and the Trajectory of Neoliberalism in Mexico.” March 2023  VIEW ISSUE

3.  Alessandro Morosin, The State, Accumulation, and Oaxaca’s Earthquake Survivors: Three Mechanisms of Inequality.” March 2023  VIEW ISSUE

4.  Steve Ellner, “Left Government Strategies toward Business Groups and the Outcomes: The Mexican and Venezuelan Cases.” March 2023 VIEW ISSUE

5.  Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, “Lost and Found: Bourgeois Dependency Theory and the Forgotten Roots of Neodevelopmentalism.” January 2022 VIEW ISSUE

6. Parisa Nourani Rinaldi, “The Age of Transition: Postdevelopment and North-Sough Synergies. January 2022 issue. VIEW ISSUE

7. Alfredo Saad-Filho, Juan Grigera, Ana Paula Colombi, “Introduction: The Nature of the PT Governments: A Variety of Neoliberalism?” January 2020 issue. VIEW ISSUE

8. Alfredo Saad-Filho, “Varieties of Neoliberalism in Brazil (2003-2019). January 2020 issue VIEW ISSUE 

9. Luiz Filgueiras, “The Governments of the Workers’ Party: Capitalist Development Pattern and Macroeconomic Policy Regimes.” January 2020 issue. VIEW ISSUE 

10. Daniela Magalhães Prates, Barbara Fritz and Luiz Fernando de Paula, Varieties of Developmentalism: A Critical Assessment of the PT Governments.” January 2020 
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11. Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Marcelo Arend and Glaison Augusto Guerrero, “Growth, Distribution and Crisis: The Workers’ Party Administration.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE 

12. Gustavo Codas Friedmann and Claudio A. Castelo Branco Puty, “Sailing against the Wind: The Rise and Crisis of a Low-Conflict Progressivism.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE  

13. Pedro Rossi, Guilherme Mello and Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos, “The Growth Model of the PT Governments: A Furtadian View of the Limits of Recent Brazilian Development.” January 2020   VIEW ISSUE 

14. Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Cecilia Hoff and Alessandro Miebach, “Profitability and Distribution: The Origin of the Brazilian Economic and Political Crisis.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE

15. Armando Boito, “Lulism, Populism, and Bonapartism.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE 

16. André Singer, “The Failure of Dilma Rousseff’s Developmentalist Experiment: A Class Analysis.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE  

17. Ruy Braga and Fábio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, “The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath.” January 2020  VIEW ISSUE 

18. Sandy Smith-Nonini “The Debt/Energy Nexus behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout: From Fossil Colonialism to New Energy Poverty. May 2020  VIEW ISSUE

19. Hannes Warnecke-Berger, “Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador.” VIEW ISSUE 

20. Steve Ellner, “Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right.” January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

21. Megan Pickup “The Political Economy of the New Left.” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE

22. Marcel Nelson, “Walking the Tightrope of Socialist Governance: A Strategic-Relational Analysis of Twenty-first-Century Socialism,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

23. Pedro Mendes Loureiro and Alfredo Saad-Filho, “The Limits of Pragmatism: The Rise and Fall of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (2002–2016).” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

24. Ricardo Antunes, Marco Aurelio Santana and Luci Praun, “Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: The PT Administrations from Compromise to the Coup,” January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

25. Mariano Féliz, “Neodevelopmentalism and Dependency in Twenty-first-Century Argentina: Insights from the Work of Ruy Mauro Marini,” January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

26. Gabriel Oyhantçabal, “The Political Economy of Progressive Uruguay, 2005–2016,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

27. Nicolás Bentancur and José Miguel Busquets, “The Governing Left in Uruguay (2005–2015): A Participatory Democratic Experiment,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

28. Florencia Antía, “The Political Dynamic of Redistribution in Unequal Democracies: The Center-Left Governments of Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective,” January 2019 article. VIEW ISSUE  

29. Steve Ellner, “Class Strategies in Chavista Venezuela: Pragmatic and Populist Policies in a Broader Context,” January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

30. Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández, “Neoextractivism and Class Formation: Lessons from the Orinoco Mining Arc Project in Venezuela,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

31. Linda Farthing, “An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Government of Evo Morales,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

32. Patrick Clark and Jacobo García, “Left Populism, State Building, Class Compromise, and Social Conflict in Ecuador’s Citizens’ Revolution,” January 2019 VIEW ISSUE  

33. Héctor Cruz Feliciano, “The Perils of Reconciliation: Achievements and Challenges of Daniel Ortega and the Modern FSLN,” January 2019. VIEW ISSUE 

34. Paul Dosh and Julia Smith Coyoli, “Lessons from the Left in Lima: Susana Villarán and the Fleeting Return of Progressive Politics to City Hal,” January 2019  VIEW ISSUE 

35. Steve Ellner, “Different Perspectives on Twenty-first-Century Latin America,” book review of Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado (eds.) Latin America since the Left Turn. January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

36. Steve Ellner “Reflections on the Application of Democratic Theory to Latin America” book review of Joe Foweraker, Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond. January 2019 VIEW ISSUE 

37. Emelio Betances, “In Search of the Subject of Change,” book review of Carlos Julio Báez Evertsz, Desigualdad y clases sociales. VIEW ISSUE

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