The Bolsonaro bandwagon continues to reek of malodorous far-right fictions. Review: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West, AJA Woods, 2026, Verso
Categories: Brazil, United States
Jair Bolsonaro’s racism did not come from thin air. The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil, Giulia Riccò, 2025, Fordham University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Comment: Walter Salles’ chilling warning about authoritarianism ducks the role of the US
Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
Latin America’s Left is handing populists ammunition for the culture wars. The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions, edited by André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro, 2024, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, South America, Uruguay
Bolsonaro took no prisoners in his blitz on the Amazon. The Amazon in Times of War, Marcos Colón, 2024, Practical Action Publishing/Latin America Bureau
Categories: Brazil, South America
Unmanageable debts will expose President Javier Milei’s neocolonial agenda, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Argentina, North America, South America, United States
The bloody fingerprints of the US and Israel are all over the security clampdown by Ecuador’s new president—posing awkward questions about the country’s spiral into violence. The LONG READ by Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Ecuador, North America, South America, United States
