PODCAST 30: Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature
Category: Colombia
Two books about violence
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PODCAST 29: Two recent titles offer lessons about violence in Latin America
A martyr speaks
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Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers, Dom Phillips and Contributors, 2025, Bonnier Books
Categories: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, South America, Venezuela
Knowledge is power
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Imperialism aims to erase indigenous wisdom. Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas, Joshua M Price, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Latine rebellions and why they matter
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Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Men with guns
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Coups can tell us all about democracy. Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982, eds Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
The radical rite
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Liberation theology did not die on the cross and has new martyrs to revere. Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As It Was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall HD Geraghty (eds), 2025, University of London Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South America
Atrocious backstories
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A journalist chronicles how democratic dreams became bloody nightmares. The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America, Alma Guillermoprieto, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Bolivia, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
The revival of Macondo
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A writer breathes new life into a town immortalised in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Mompós Project: A Tale of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia, Richard McColl, 2025, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, South America
The benefits of mob rule
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In Latin America, crooks reign where states cower. Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro, Nicholas Barnes, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, North America, South America