Political Report #1457 Pedro Castillo’s victory raises hopes beyond Peru
by Steve Ellner Posted by Canadian Dimension
Peru’s long-standing polarity between a large extension of coastal region, where the nation’s wealth is concentrated, and the much-neglected interior was on full display in the June 6 presidential election. But the polarity was not just geographical. It wasn’t just that the winning candidate Pedro Castillo received the lion’s share of his votes from the interior, known as the “Other Peru.” Nor that Lima and other coastal cities favored Keiko Fujimori, particularly in middle class districts. The election also pitted two candidates with very dissimilar backgrounds against each other: […]
Blog Exclusive – Latin American and Caribbean tie-breaker
written by Félix Pablo Friggeri y Angélica Remache López
The description of the regional situation and its integration process has gone through a series of conceptualizations with diverse political intentions. We propose a characterization based on the concept of “catastrophic tie,” seeking to highlight elements that may be studied prospectively, considering recent events. These include aspects of the electoral processes and popular demonstrations that have taken place in recent times. We raise the question of whether we are moving towards the possibility of a resumption of the predominance of popular governments and regional integration processes.
Regional catastrophic […]
Political Report #1455 Ecuador’s April 11 Presidential Election
surface, the contrast between the two candidates seems stark and the choice clear.
Arauz and Guillermo Lasso emerged at the top of the polls.
Political Report #1454 Don’t Make Puerto Rico a State Now
Political Report #1454 Don’t Make Puerto Rico a State Now
Afrodescendientes in Paraguay: the 209-Year Struggle for Recognition
Political Report #1453 — Afrodescendientes in Paraguay: the 209-Year Struggle for Recognition
by Valencia Wilson
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COVID-19 in El Paso: A Spectacle of Injustice
By Amy Reed-Sandoval
The French philosopher Michel Foucault famously described the nature of a “spectacle” in Discipline and Punish, in which he explored 18th century public executions in France. The purpose of spectacle, he argued, is “to bring into play…the dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful sovereign who displays his strength.” Such “Foucauldian spectacles” are about inequality and, above all else, power.
Despite the various forces striving to invisibilize COVID-19 as much as possible, COVID-19 has become, I argue, a Foucauldian spectacle in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas, which is now […]
Political Report # 1452 A Global Police State is Emerging as World Capitalism Descends Into Crisis
Female Bodies and Globalization: The Work of Indigenous Women Weavers in Zinacantán
Female Bodies and Globalization: The Work of Indigenous Women Weavers in Zinacantán | November 10, 2020
by Eugenia Bayona Escat | November 10, 2020
ABSTRACT:
Women producers and sellers of textile crafts in Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, use one of the few resources they have to enter business: craft production as informal, invisible, and underpaid work. Taking the body as the axis of analysis, three distinct areas of transformation of indigenous women producers by tourism may be identified: the private and domestic body of craftswomen, the social and public body as an icon of ethnic difference, and the commodified body as an extension […]