Victims of assassination foster a deathly fetish. Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer–Slain Nexus, Michael Taussig, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States
PODCAST 29: Two recent titles offer lessons about violence in Latin America
Even grief is contested in postwar Central America. Specters of War: The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America, Ignacio Sarmiento, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala
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
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
Mexico’s state has abandoned public security to the myth of a moral crisis. Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico, Claudio Lomnitz, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Is the narrative about cartel bloodshed in Mexico finally changing? Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, Ieva Jusionyte, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Caribbean, Haiti, Mexico, North 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
Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production, Rebecca Janzen, 2022, Vanderbilt University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
