Posts tagged: latin-america

Running from Resignation: Central Americans on the Migrant Trail

Óscar Martínez considers why Central American migrants will not stop seeking a way into the trap of the United States.
Football and Politics in South America

Politicans around the world associate themselves with popular sports, but in South America the relationship between politicians and football has often been much stronger than that.
A Turning Point for the Sandinistas: Nicaragua’s 1968

In 1968, Carlos Fonseca and the FSLN adopted a new strategic approach, laying the groundwork for the 1979 revolution.
Capitalist Development in Nicaragua and the Mirage of the Left

Nicaraguans are caught between the corrupt and repressive Ortega government and the traditional oligarchy, backed by the international right wing.
In Guatemala, 68 Came Six Years Early: The Problem of Periodization

At least a decade before the “Global 68,” students in Guatemala and elsewhere around the world were leading their own political struggles and connecting them with others.
Daughters of the Strike: A May Day Statement

We were born from the confluence that is taking place between workers in neighborhoods, in factories, in the popular economy, between domestic workers, care workers, precarious workers, among those organized in unions and multiple other feminist collectives, among those who don’t have a visible boss but engage in piece work in their homes and those who are unemployed workers.
Michael Löwy: "Marxism forms an enduring, integral part of modern culture"

Löwy discusses the many deaths and afterlives of Marxism, Romantic anti-capitalism, and universalism and Latin American Marxism.
We Built the Wall

U.S. immigration policy during the Trump presidency and in the years beyond could be outrageous and appalling, but it’s not new.
From #MeToo to #WeStrike: A Politics in Feminine

At its heart, a politics in feminine ensures that social reproduction is our collective responsibility.
Puerto Rico: Belonging to, But Not Part of

The Trump administration's delay in sending real aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is a distasteful display of colonialist racism. But it's par for the course: our citizenship has always been second-class.
The Surrealist Continent

Throughout the twentieth century the concerns of artists in Europe and North America have had an obvious impact on the art of Latin America, yet it is important to recognize the particular significance of movements such as Surrealism or abstraction within a non-Western context.
The Specter of Fascism in Venezuela

Much mainstream media coverage of the helicopter attack on Venezuelan government buildings has focused on Oscar Alberto Perez’s bombastic statements about “restoring constitutional order.” But listen closely to the other expressions and terms Perez uses in his video statement. They provide a window into a fascistic form of thought that may come to define the opposition in Venezuela.