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Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America

Title: Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America Issue #: 222 | Volume #: 45  | Number #: 5 Date: September 2018 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Linda Farthing and Nicole Fabricant Short Description: Ever since the elusive search for El Dorado began in the 16th century, the history of Latin America has been a tale of resource extraction. This issue focuses on the interconnections and impacts of global resource-based economies on topics as wide-ranging as local people and their environments, national policies and international financial capital. Rather than finding neat and tidy conclusions, it suggests that nuanced social, political economic analyses better enable us to understand and analyze how contemporary extractivism is reshaping Latin America.  

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Immigrants, Indigenous People, and Workers Pursuing Justice

Title: Immigrants, Indigenous People, and Workers Pursuing Justice Issue #: 223  | Volume #: 45  | Number #: 6 Date: November 2018 Interviewer: Alex Scott Interviewees: Lynn Stephen, María L. Cruz-Torres and Seth M. Holmes Short Description: This issue covers a number of topics that are very much in the forefront of political discussion, among them immigration, indigenous rights, workers’ struggles, and governance.

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Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right

Title: Pink-Tide Governments: Pragmatic and Populist Responses to Challenges from the Right Issue #: 224 | Volume #: 46 | Number #: 1 Date: January 2019 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Steve Ellner Short Description: This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector. The issue looks at the ways the government reacted to these challenges by making concessions and carrying out policies that in the long run undermined economic and political stability and the achievement of stated goals. Along these lines, Pink Tide governments implemented pragmatic strategies to win over or neutralize the business class and populist initiatives to meet the short-term needs of the popular sectors.

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Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: Conflictual Relationships 226/46/3 May 2019

Issue #: 226  | Volume #: 46  | Number #: 3 Date: May 2019 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Pablo Pozzi Short Description: This issue of LAP represents a step toward a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a Latin American context. The articles cover a range of historical and current topics and show that Arab and Jewish histories are an integral part of Latin American history, that Latin America has been an important actor in the conflict over Palestine, and that the issue is being played out today in ever-changing circumstances. Historical topics address how specific Latin American countries dealt with the creation of Israel and the Six-Day War while other articles consider more recent topics including the role and treatment of the Palestinian diaspora and Israeli marketing of urban security expertise.

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Brazil’s Crisis Of Memory: Embracing Myths And Forgetting History

Title: Brazil’s Crisis Of Memory: Embracing Myths And Forgetting History Issue #: 227  | Volume #: 46 | Number #: 4 Date: July 2019 Interviewer: Alexander Scott Interviewees: Paulo Simões Short Description: This issue is devoted to Brazil and examines how the last few years have brought significant transformations to the government and society, which defy earlier expectations, both positive and negative. Articles focus on political and economic subjects ranging from public demonstrations and labor unionization, the results of the PT administrations’ policies of land reform and healthcare management, to the difficulties brought on by the international recession, as well as questions of historical formation, cultural construction, self-identity, self-definition and criticism, and the conservative backlashes which have led to the rise of the rightist regime now in power. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES 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. http://latinamericanperspectives.com

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Issue #227 July 1 2019 Volume 46-4

  This issue is devoted to Brazil and examines how the last few years have brought significant transformations to the government and society, which defy earlier expectations, both positive and negative.  Articles focus on political and economic subjects ranging from public demonstrations and labor unionization, the results of the PT administrations’ policies of land reform and healthcare management, to the difficulties brought on by the international recession, as well as questions of historical formation, cultural construction, self-identity, self-definition and criticism, and the conservative backlashes which have led to the rise of the rightist regime now in power.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #225 May 1 2019 Volume 46-3

  This issue of LAP represents a step toward a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a Latin American context. The articles cover a range of historical and current topics and show that Arab and Jewish histories are an integral part of Latin American history, that Latin America has been an important actor in the conflict over Palestine, and that the issue is being played out today in ever-changing circumstances.  Historical topics address how specific Latin American countries dealt with the creation of Israel and the Six-Day War while other articles consider more recent topics including the role and treatment of the Palestinian diaspora and Israeli marketing of urban security expertise.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #225 Mar 1 2019 Volume 46-2

  This issue continues the examination of the economic, social, and political impacts of expanded extractivism in Latin America and the perpetuation of the region’s role as a raw materials supplier for foreign markets that was started in the September 2018 issue (LAP 45 [5]).  With a broad geographic scope and consideration of a wide range of extractive industries from mining and hydrocarbons to soy, it combines critical theoretical insights with rich empirical research into the changing national and transnational structural relationships among governments, resource extracting and financial corporations, and the affected populations. Several articles critically assess the limitations of the extractivist policies of progressive governments. Others analyze the role of China and the actual experience of South-South cooperation.  Environmental justice issues and grass roots resistance are also considered  with attention to the roles of women, indigenous and Afro-descendent communities.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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ROMA

ROMA (film dossier) 2018 drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón By: Erynn Masi de Casanova (full story - click here) World-famous director Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma, which recently won the Golden Globe for Best Picture and is nominated in 10 Academy Award categories, shines a light on a figure who is often invisible: the domestic worker. Called empleada, muchacha, chica, and worse, these workers, ubiquitous in Latin American cities , labor in conditions of exploitation that are not seen in other occupations. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), nearly 30% of domestic workers in the world are explicitly excluded from national labor laws. Even when they do have rights guaranteed by law, these are not usually enforced. Latin America is home to 27% of the world’s domestic workers, and in recent years, several Latin American films have addressed the situation of domestic workers in the households where they work. Yet none has received the degree of attention and acclaim that Roma has. As film critics, audiences, and domestic worker advocates weigh in on Roma in the run-up to the Oscars later this month, the voices of the experts who conduct research on domestic work in the region have been [...]

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Issue #224 Jan 1 2019 Volume 46-1

  This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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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. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

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