Southern Cone

January 23, 2024
Nara Roberta Silva

Brazil’s Workers’ Party has been back in power for a year. Despite some progress, concessions to the far right continue.

January 16, 2024
Patricia Rodríguez

From Patagonia, an environmental activist discusses her community’s struggle against a new oil pipeline and the threats of expanding extractivism in their territory.

December 21, 2023
Nyki Duda

Once again, Chileans voted no on a constitutional referendum. The Pinochet-era constitution endures while the path to reform remains uncertain.

December 13, 2023
James J. A. Blair

Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, draws on authoritarian tactics reminiscent of Trump and Bolsonaro, but his ideology has deeper roots in Thatcherism, raising questions about the Falklands/Malvinas.

December 12, 2023
Lucía Cholakian Herrera

Supporters cheered as the new far-right libertarian president pledged to push austerity measures. But with progressive forces vowing to resist, his shock treatment could backfire.

December 4, 2023
Moira Millán

A Mapuche leader or weychafe expresses solidarity with Palestinian women in an open letter penned from the impotence of distance and the certainty of resistance.

December 1, 2023
Sylvia Marina Ruiz

Mercedes Biocca's insightful book reveals dynamics of resistance and acquiescence to soybean expansion in two Indigenous communities in the heart of Northern Argentina.

November 14, 2023
Ociel Alí López

Viewed in light of Latin America's recent progressive wave, diverging electoral results in Ecuador and Argentina generate hope and uncertainty.

Cover of "After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia" by Mareike Winchell. (University of California Press, 2022)
November 3, 2023
Carwil Bjork-James

Mareike Winchell’s ethnography of post-hacienda life in Bolivia’s Ayopaya province reveals the complex afterlives of servitude, but fails to weigh the comparative scale between deference and refusal.

October 20, 2023
Salvador Lescano

Argentina and Paraguay face off in a diplomatic row over river tolls that raises questions about the future of regional relations.

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