Through his work, the Argentinian cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon, known to all as Quino, engaged in pointed social critique on a range of topics that are even more relevant today.
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Articles sur Latin America
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As the twin crises of climate change and Covid-19 continue to unfold, a traditional crop can help South American communities preserve biodiversity and their heritage.
The historically high level of informal work in Latin America will make its recovery much more difficult than elsewhere.
Kenosha is the latest US city to see federal agents patrolling its protests. History suggests that supplanting the local police with a militarized national force rarely works out well.
Reports of rape, domestic abuse and murdered women are way up in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and beyond since the coronavirus. But Latin America has long been one of the most dangerous places to be a woman.
Latin America now has about 6 million COVID-19 cases – 30% of the global total. But some cities have fared much worse than others, largely due to the quality of government and community responses.
Interviews with former fighters show the pandemic is putting a fragile peace process under strain.
The Zapotec people of southern Mexico have always relied on each other to solve problems when the government can’t, or won’t, help. That’s proving to be a pretty effective pandemic response.
Step aside, Pablo Escobar. New research shows it was poor farmers who helped turn Colombia into the world’s largest drug producer when they started growing and exporting pot in the 1970s.
Glaring capacity gaps aside, the failure to curb COVID-19 is not so much due to a lack of technical know-how but to a particular view of the world.
Indigenous communities were already suffering badly under Bolsonaro. Now, COVID-19 threatens their very survival.
Religious imagery has traditionally been a popular vehicle for artistic expression, providing comfort during conflict.
Coronavirus is serving Latin American organised crime well.
Unrest in the US looks familiar to Latin Americans, who are accustomed to resisting undemocratic governments – and to their protest movements being met with violent suppression.
Pandemic devastation surrounds it on all sides, but tiny Uruguay has COVID-19 under control – just the latest win for a country that’s always stood out.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic’s racially disparate toll.
Latin American history shows that sending out troops to quell unrest is a perilous move even in strong democracies. Usually, protesters die. Sometimes, the end result is authoritarianism rule.
The coronavirus-related closure of the Colombian border hasn’t stopped desperate Venezuelans from entering – but it has made the trip more dangerous.
Maids were among Brazil’s earliest COVID-19 victims, infected by employers who had been to Italy. Now 39% of Brazilian ‘domésticas’ have been let go, most without severance or sick leave.
Social bandits have a long history in Latin America.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Bath
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
