Abstract, Puerto Rico’s Summer 2019 Uprising and the Crisis of Colonialism
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.
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Abstract, The Self-Inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Crisis
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.
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Political Report # 1444 Cuaderno de Coyuntura
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| 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 […] |
Employers’ Organizations and Quarantine Policies in Ibero-America: A Brief Reflection on the Chilean and Spanish Case
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 […]
Will a Failed Plot in Venezuela Strengthen Maduro?
May 19, 2020 | by Steve Ellner
Originally published in Latin America Advisor of the Inter-American Dialogue
Every aspect of the recent attempt to topple the Maduro government points to Juan Guaidó’s lack of leadership capacity. The incident cuts into his support among both the radical opposition that supports the use of force and the majority of Venezuelans, who, according to polls, favor concrete proposals to solve pressing immediate problems over regime-change strategies. In the first place, Guaidó’s signature on the contract with the Florida-based Silvercorp USA disregards the history of operations of this sort in which planners go to length to […]
Three things you should know about Anita
By Monserrat Sepúlveda, Santiago, Chile | May 6th, 2020
This coronavirus pandemic seems to be showing all of us just how vulnerable people are. Here at home in Chile, I think about one person in particular: Anita. She works as a housekeeper and there is so much about her I wish you knew. We could have a 6-hour zoom chat just to talk about her extraordinary life and it wouldn’t be enough. But there are three things ,in particular, you should definitely know about Anita.
The first thing is that Anita will continue talking to you even if you are […]
Trump’s disregard for immigrant life amid the pandemic bring us closer to a collapse of civilization
By Alfonso Gonzales Toribio | May 5, 2020
Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside
The battle over Trump’s immigration policies in the middle of the pandemic is reaching a boiling point.
At the core of all of his polices is a desire to accumulate wealth at all costs and a blatant disregard for human life that endangers a basic sense of right and wrong needed for a civilized world to function.
The President is forcing tens of thousands of meatpacking workers, many of them […]
“The Measles from the Time of My Grandfather”: Amazonian Ethnocide Memories in Times of Covid-19
By Carlos Fausto | April 28, 2020
Professor of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Two weeks ago, Kanari Kuikuro called me from Canarana, a small town in the Brazilian Amazon, where he now lives with his wife and many children. He is originally from the Xingu Indigenous Land, which lies up north and is one of the most culturally rich multiethnic constellation of South America. Kanari was apprehensive.
– Pamü (cousin), […]