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: Poverty
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
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
Venezuela resists
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PODCAST 26: Avaricious imperialist wolves are circling the Bolivarian Revolution
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
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