Scarcity does not always lend itself to statistical analysis. Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru, Kristin Skrabut, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Peru, South America
Tag: Inequality
Two books about violence
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PODCAST 29: Two recent titles offer lessons about violence in Latin America
Down but never out
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Pity the poor? Then give them power. Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires, Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Venezuela resists
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PODCAST 26: Avaricious imperialist wolves are circling the Bolivarian Revolution
The human face of unfairness
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Inequality is a systemic trait of Latin America but beneath the statistical data are millions of personal stories. Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and hope in Latin America, edited by Javier Auyero, 2024 University of Texas Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Peru, South America
Goliath’s global David
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Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History, by Mateo Jarquín
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
Womb wounds
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Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940, Elizabeth O’Brien, 2023, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, North America