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The Martyrs of Louisiana

The Martyrs of Louisiana

On the 18th of June 1842, in a doctor’s office on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, a French poet and playwright named Auguste Lussan died of a surgical operation meant to relieve yellow fever. The attending physician was Jean François Beugnot, a prominent doctor who had immigrated from France, and who would soon present and publish his approach to treatment of yellow fever in a regional medical journal, research which would later be recognized by Napoleon III with the award of the Legion of Honour.

A Review of Cash, Clothes, and Construction. Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy

A Review of Cash, Clothes, and Construction. Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy

A cottage industry of academic research on Bolivia has flourished over the past twenty years. Unleashed by popular mobilizations and political transformation around the turn of the century, social scientists have dissected and debated Bolivia’s “plurinational” state-building project, which came to define President Evo Morales’s regime (2006-2019). Of course, Bolivia had long been the object of scholarly curiosity, thanks to its robust Indigenous movements, neoliberal experiments in multiculturalism, eruption of anti-global uprisings and the postcolonial turn in public discourse.

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Hemetério José dos Santos (1858-1939), a Black grammarian and teacher at Rio de Janeiro's most important schools suffered racist attacks in the press because of the way he dressed.

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Perspectives in Times of Change

Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.

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Reticulárea With a Bullfighter in the Background

Reticulárea With a Bullfighter in the Background

His torso is nude, and he’s wrapped in his cape, posing with the grace of a matador, before the gaze of the photographer. They come from very different worlds and nevertheless manage to be accomplices in regards to the camera.

Climate Crisis in the South of Brazil: A Foretold Catastrophe Amidst State Dismantling

Climate Crisis in the South of Brazil: A Foretold Catastrophe Amidst State Dismantling

The recent climate catastrophe in Porto Alegre and Rio Grande do Sul is a grim reminder of the urgent need to address the systemic dismantling of public structures. The neoliberal policies, fiscal austerity and the subsequent weakening of the state’s capacity have exacerbated the impact of extreme weather events, culminating in the devastating consequences of the floods of May 2024.

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Biking the Cerro

Biking the Cerro

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On Sundays in Santiago de Chile, Avenida Andrés Bello stops traffic between its intersection with the Costanera Center to Plaza Italia, allowing hundreds of people walking, biking, on rollerskates, on skateboards, their dogs on leashes before them, to travel along the otherwise car-clogged street.

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A Review of Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

A Review of Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature

With this fascinating and theoretically sound study, Rosario Hubert has produced a key text not only in Asia-Latin American studies, but also in Latin American studies and Asian studies. In Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature, she explores, from the theoretical perspectives of world literature and cosmopolitanism, not so much how Latin American authors have mimetically represented China in their works but, rather, how their own misreadings (hence, the “disoriented” in the title of the book) of Chinese culture allowed them to reconsider world literature and join global cross-cultural debates.

A Review of Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984

A Review of Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984

During most of the 1980s I lived in Managua, Nicaragua, as a photojournalist for Newsweek magazine. I had covered the 1979 Sandinista Revolution that sent shockwaves through Washington because Nicaragua “lost” a staunch ally against Communism. Central America had become the final battleground of the Cold War, and Washington was not about to lose another Vietnam.

A Review of The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned World

A Review of The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned World

Omar Torrijos, military dictator of Panama, may be one of the most understudied leaders in modern Latin American history. After seizing power in 1968, he reshaped the country’s destiny, most notably by negotiating the transfer of the Panama Canal from U.S. to Panamanian control in 1977. Up until his sudden death in 1981, he also played an outsized role in inter-American affairs.

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