The “Other” Politics of Ayotzinapa
How a popular movement arisen from the forced disappearance of student-teachers in Mexico demonstrates a horizontal politics of shared leadership.
Year: 2015
How Evo Morales’s Third Term Will Challenge Bolivia’s Social Movements
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The strategy of “defeating” the political right by incorporating elite sectors into Bolivia’s ruling MAS party will be put to the test in Evo Morales’s third term. Evo Morales […]
Deforestation in the Amazon Aggravates Brazil’s Energy Crisis
In Brazil water and electricity go together, and two years of scant rainfall have left tens of millions of people on the verge of water and power rationing, boosting arguments for the need to fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Latin America and Spain’s Podemos: Between Hegemony and Multitude
Iñigo Erregón, Spanish intellectual of the new party Podemos, took Laclau as reference in his thesis of 650 pages that deals with the arrival to power of Evo Morales and the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia.
Podemos’s Latin American Roots
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The ‘Biden Plan’ for Central America Treats Child Refugees as National Security Threat
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Ecuador: Government implements new ways to criminalize and control social protest
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Bolivia’s Contested Process of Change: Views From a Regional Election
Following defeats for Evo Morales’ MAS party in Bolivian regional elections, new checks and balances to MAS power from a variety of political positions may continue to open up spaces of dissent, debate and contestation that will deepen Bolivia’s wider process of change, a process that the MAS doesn’t, nor did it ever, completely control.