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by José Javier Colón Morera The Boricua summer1 of 2019 (as the series of popular demonstrations against the administration of the then-governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, has been termed) was a complex social event with significant potential. Some of its features are specific to the social context of one of the world’s last colonies, a body politic that is still fighting for full decolonization and the expansion of its democracy in the face of an austerity agenda that has intensely affected the vulnerable sectors of the population (Colón Morera, 2016; Negrón-Muntaner, 2019; Rivera Ramos, 2019). In another sense, however, reflect a new anti-neoliberal activism that is common to very diverse contexts and significantly transnational (Bandy and Smith, 2004; Cotto Morales, in this issue; Díaz Lotero, 2019). The Boricua summer became part of an extensive process of citizen empowerment linked to the country’s struggle to escape the colonial entrapment of its current territorial Commonwealth’ arrangement (Colón Ríos, 2016; Fonseca, 2019; Negrón-Muntaner, 2019).2 For this reason, it demands further analysis and presents the enormous challenges of capturing a process in full motion.3 CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE HERE Posted by Latin American Perspectives at 12:40 PM No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest [...]

:::::: Abstract :::::: by Pedro Cabán July 22, 2019, was a watershed moment in Puerto Rico’s history. On that day Puerto Ricans by the hundreds of thousands marched and demanded the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, the colony’s inept and ethically bankrupt governor. On August 2 the pro-statehood governor became the first elected governor of Puerto Rico to resign his office. CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE HERE CONTINUE READING HERE > > > Posted by Latin American Perspectives at 2:19 PM No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Colonialism, May 2020 issue, Puerto Rico, Social Movements, Verano Boricua

by Argeo T. Quiñones-Pérez and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry The fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico, which constrains the ways in which the government can try to tackle the economic depression, is in important ways self-inflicted—the product of economic policies undertaken at the local level. When the crisis is approached in this way, the resolution of the island’s colonial situation can be seen as a necessary but not sufficient condition for solving the problems of the depression’s victims. CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE HERE CONTINUE READING HERE > > > Posted by Latin American Perspectives at 2:00 PM No comments:   Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Economic Crisis, May 2020 issue, Puerto Rico

Cuaderno de Coyuntura Cuadernos de Trabajo, CLACSO, RMALC, INAH La crisis de sanidad por la Pandemia del COVID-19 ha venido a profundizar la crisis económica global y la legitimidad de los Estados que se generó en 2008, lo que nos lleva a redoblar esfuerzos para analizar la realidad producida por el capitalismo global y su crisis actual y a crear y recrear estrategias para avanzar en la transformación de esta realidad. Es por ello, que los miembros del Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras (DEAS-INAH), del Grupo de Trabajo “Fronteras, regionalización y globalización” del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) y de la Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC), unimos esfuerzos para esta tarea. Consideramos que la propuesta de producir Cuadernos de Trabajo donde se plasmen ideas, análisis, reflexiones colectivas, planes de trabajo y de acción, es parte de nuestra contribución a continuar una tarea en la que hemos estado inmersos por mucho tiempo. El primer número de estos Cuadernos de Trabajo contiene una notas para un análisis de coyuntura sobre la crisis económica y las medidas gubernamentales de contingencia frente al COVID-19 en México, las cuales esperamos que puedan ser enriquecidas con [...]

May 20, 2020 | By Alejandro Osorio Rauld and José Reig Cuañes The Covid-19 pandemic has tested the strength, logistics, and leadership of states around the world. In order to face the health emergency, the governments have had to implement several degrees of confinement and “social distancing” that, lately, have saved millions of lives, albeit at a very high cost in terms of economic activity The debate on the appropriate harmony between health protection and economic safeguard allows us to analyze an interesting aspect of political systems: the relationship between business elites and State power. Most of the policies that the pandemic has faced have been legitimized by the intervention of validated actors such as experts, technicians, advisers and also politicians of different persuasions. Their advice has contributed to protect citizens from what in biopolitical terms we could call a “letting die”, which was the dominant choice at first in several of the countries with leaders fit in with the commonly named “conservative populism” (USA, Brazil, UK). However, other social groups attempt to influence State decisions: this is the case of business elites and their organizations, acting as “pressure groups” that mobilize powerful resources in favor of their interests. Indeed, although the [...]