A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Capitalism
Let them eat cake
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Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, Enrique C Ochoa, 2025, University of Arizona Press
The spirit of value
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Mexican mezcal raises a glass to ‘enrichment’ capitalism. Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace, Ronda L Brulotte, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Extraction undone
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Indigenous loss of control over landscapes can be reversed. Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands, Fernando Pérez Montesinos, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Milei’s monstrous experiment
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Food for thought
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Traditional indigenous knowledge is key to beating food insecurity. Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well, Mariaelena Huambachano, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, Peru, South America
An experiment in agony
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, Sebastian Edwards, 2023, Princeton University Press
Categories: Chile, North America, South America, United States