HST 115 The Stalemate in Venezuela & Police Repression Discussion

Schrader, Stuart, “From Police Reform to Police Repression: 50 Years after an Assassination,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (August 10, 2020).

Here is a list of articles from the NACLA website pertaining to regions for the May 14 due date. Everybody, please pick any one article from this list for your May 14 review. Just follow the same format for your first and second NACLA submissions. These articles range in date from February 2019 to April 2021 (The most recent articles are indicated in parenthesis with the publication date). For this list, I’m going in alphabetical order by nation:

Argentina:

• A Clash of Interests in Villa 31 (Links to an external site.)

• Activists Call for Legislation to Protect Argentina’s Wetlands (Links to an external site.)

• Activists Keep Argentina’s Abortion Reform on the Agenda Despite Covid-19 (Links to an external site.)

• Another IMF Bailout in Argentina (Links to an external site.)

• Argentina: A Tentative Case for Democratic Populism (Links to an external site.)

• Argentina’s Failing Fracking Experiment (Links to an external site.)

• Argentina and the IMF: What to Expect with the Likely Return of Kirchnerism (Links to an external site.)

• Decades After Argentina’s Dictatorship, the Abuelas Continue Reuniting Families (Links to an external site.)

• Demands for Land and Housing Continue After Guernica Eviction (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• Feminists Fight Covid on Buenos Aires’ Urban Margins (Links to an external site.)

• In Argentina, a “Right Turn” That Wasn’t and Left-Peronism’s Unlikely Comeback (Links to an external site.)

• In Argentina, the Next Generation Finds Its Voice (Links to an external site.)

• Macri’s Failed Fracking Dreams (Links to an external site.)

• Macri’s Yellow Balloons (Links to an external site.)

• “Our Struggle is Not Just for Ourselves, It is For All Workers” (Links to an external site.)

• Public Debt Defines First Year of Fernández Presidency (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• The Audacity and Calculations of Cristina Kirchner (Links to an external site.)

• The Consequences of Mr. Macri

• The Union of Land Workers is Creating a New Food Paradigm in Argentina (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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Bolivia:

• A New MAS Era in Bolivia (Links to an external site.)

• Bolivia’s Path to Camacho (Interview) (Links to an external site.)

• Bolivia’s Plurinational Healthcare Revolution Will Not Be Defeated (Links to an external site.)

• Bolivia’s School Closures Will Deepen Divide of Who Gets to Study (Links to an external site.)

• Bolivia’s Tragic Turmoil (Links to an external site.)

• Bolivia Has Provided Us a Radical Vision of Hope (Links to an external site.)

• Centuries of Fire: Rebel Memory and Andean Utopias in Bolivia (Book Excerpt) (Links to an external site.)

• Evo Morales Wins Bolivia’s Election, but Fraud Allegations Tarnish the Victory (Links to an external site.)

• History at the Barricades: Evo Morales and the Power of the Past in Bolivian Politics (Book Excerpt) (Links to an external site.)

• MAS Regains Bolivian Presidency (Links to an external site.)

• Mixed Results for the MAS in Bolivia Regional Elections (Mar. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Remembering Orlando Gutiérrez of the Bolivia Miners Union (Links to an external site.)

• State Violence in Áñez’s Bolivia: Interview with Human Rights Lawyer David Inca Apaza (Links to an external site.)

• Survivors Fight for Justice for 2003 Bolivian Military Massacre (Links to an external site.)

• The Highs and Lows of Bolivia’s Rebel City (Links to an external site.)

• Trump Bets on Closer Ties with Bolivia (Links to an external site.)

• Understanding Bolivia’s Nightmare (Links to an external site.)

• Understanding MAS’s Winning Strategy in Bolivia (Links to an external site.)

• Will Evo Morales Survive Bolivia’s Fires? (Links to an external site.)

Brazil:

• Attacks on Brazilian Press Increase Under Bolsonaro (Links to an external site.)

• Bolsonaro and Brazil Court the Global Far Right (Links to an external site.)

• Brazil: Corruption as a Mode of Rule (Links to an external site.)

• Brazil Falters In Public Health Leadership (Links to an external site.)

• Brazil’s Vulnerable Left Behind in the Pandemic (Links to an external site.)

• Finding Marielle Franco’s Killers (Links to an external site.)

• Guns, Crime, and Corruption: Bolsonaro’s First Month in Office (Links to an external site.)

• Lawfare Unmasked in Brazil (Links to an external site.)

• Lingering Trauma in Brazil: Police Violence Against Black Women (Links to an external site.)

• Marielle Franco, Presente! (Links to an external site.)

• Marielle Franco’s Seeds: Black Women and the 2020 Brazilian Election (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• Outsourcing Repression (Links to an external site.)

• Pandemic Worsens Working Conditions in Brazil’s Informal Care Economy (Links to an external site.)

• Paulinho Paiakan Dies of Covid-19 in Brazil (Links to an external site.)

• “Racial Democracy” Reloaded (Links to an external site.)

• The Burning Quest to Revive a Nationalist Vision in Brazil’s Amazon (Links to an external site.)

• The Inversion of Human Rights in Brazil (Links to an external site.)

• The Losing Struggle for Brazilian Democracy (Film Review) (Links to an external site.)

• The Social Cost of Bolsonaro’s Denial (Links to an external site.)

• Triggering Police Violence in Brazil (Links to an external site.)

• U.S. Expands Influence in the Brazilian Amazon During Pandemic (Links to an external site.)

• Understanding the Fires in South America (Links to an external site.)

• Urbanismo Miliciano in Rio de Janeiro (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)

• We Will All Be Judged By History: Political Upheaval in Brazil

• With Lula Back, the Political Fight in Brazil is Between Democracy and Authoritarianism (Mar. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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Chile:

• Burying Pinochet (Links to an external site.)

• Children who Come from Afar (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• Chile’s Environmental Betrayal (Links to an external site.)

• Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State (Links to an external site.)

• Chilean Arpilleras Sustain Political Momentum During Lockdown (Links to an external site.)

• Creativity at the Service of Social Mobilization in Chile (Links to an external site.)

• Fire and Fury in the Chilean “Oasis” (Links to an external site.)

• In Chile, the Post-Neoliberal Future is Now (Links to an external site.)

• Mapuche Political Prisoners Continue Struggle for Land and Freedom (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• Pinochet-era Intelligence Agent Faces Extradition from Australia (Links to an external site.)

• Professors Test the Limits of “Me Too” in Chile (Links to an external site.)

• Social Progress Deferred in Chile (Links to an external site.)

• The Chilean State Seeks to Ban the Poets (Links to an external site.)

• The Reality in Chile (Links to an external site.)

• The Santiago Metro as a Microcosm of Chile (Links to an external site.)

• Toward a People’s Constitution for Chile (Links to an external site.)

Colombia:

• A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia

• Afro-Colombians Protest Violence and Government Neglect in Buenaventura (Mar. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Behind the National Strike in Colombia (Links to an external site.)

• “Birds of Passage:” Indigenous Communities Rewrite the Drug War (Links to an external site.)

• Colombia’s Environmental Crisis Accelerates Under Duque (Links to an external site.)

• Colombia’s Longest Insurgency and the Last Chance for Peace? (Links to an external site.)

• Colombia’s National Protests Show that Infrastructure, Too, is PoliticsLinks to an external site.

• Colombians Question Deployment of U.S. Security Forces (Links to an external site.)

• Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside (Links to an external site.)

• Creative Resistance in Medellín’s Changing Public Space (Links to an external site.)

• Empty Seats and Full Streets in the Colombian Minga (Links to an external site.)

• Former FARC Combatants Face Their Pasts (Links to an external site.)

• In Colombia, Civil Society Fights for Peace (Links to an external site.)

• In Colombia, the Press Under Fire (Links to an external site.)

• Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)

• Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (Book Review) (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Massacres in Colombia Lay Bare Next Phase of the Conflict (Links to an external site.)

• Protests Against Police Brutality Spread in Colombia (Links to an external site.)

• The Brink of Extinction in Colombia (Links to an external site.)

• The Green Erasure of Indigenous Life (Links to an external site.)

• The Specter of Colombia in the U.S. Presidential Election (Links to an external site.)

• The Wide-Angle Lens of Colombia’s National Strike (Links to an external site.)

• Victims of Colombian Conflict Seek Resolution Through Transitional Justice (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Vital Decomposition (Book Review)

• What Will Happen to Cesar, Colombia When the Mines Leave? (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Will Megaprojects Destroy Colombia’s Peace Process? (Links to an external site.)

• Women Weaving Life in Southern Colombia (Links to an external site.)

Ecuador:

• Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador (Links to an external site.)

• Ecuador: Society’s Reaction to IMF Austerity Package (Links to an external site.)

• Ecuador Grapples with Food Sovereignty (Links to an external site.)

• Ecuador Indigenous Protests Braved ‘War Zone’ to Win People’s Victory, But Anti-IMF Fight Not Over (Links to an external site.)

• Ecuadorians Seek Truth and Justice, While the Government Prepares a New IMF Deal (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• El Aromo Solar Project Sets Precedent for Renewable Energy in Ecuador (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Elected Left, Governing Right

• How the Right Returned to Power in Ecuador (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• In Ecuador, Lawfare Marches on Despite Coronavirus

• Movement Against Mining Gains Ground in Ecuador (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Orphanhoods in the Ecuadorian Andes (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• The Long Coup in Ecuador

• Two Different Visions of the Left Divide Ecuador in the 2021 Presidential Election (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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Paraguay:

• A Ray of Light for Paraguay’s Trans Community (Links to an external site.)

• COVID-19 Drives Unlikely Changes in Paraguay (Links to an external site.)

• Inside Paraguay’s Coronavirus Shelters (Links to an external site.)

• Paraguay Stifles Criticism After Two Girls Killed in Military Raid (Links to an external site.)

• Protesters in Paraguay Question Pandemic Response and One-Party Rule (Mar. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Remembering Paraguay’s Great War (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)

• Tales of Terror on the Triple Frontier (Links to an external site.)

• The Dam that (Almost) Brought Down Paraguay’s President (Links to an external site.)

• Two Different Visions of the Left Divide Ecuador in the 2021 Presidential Election (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

Peru:

• A 30-Year Quest for Justice in Peru (Links to an external site.)

• A Narrowly-Avoided Constitutional Crisis in Peru (Links to an external site.)

• A New Era of Protest Rocks Peru (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• An Uncertain Way Forward for Peru (Links to an external site.)

• Covid-19 and Extraction Pressures in the Peruvian Amazon

• Gahela Cari: “In Peru, People are Questioning the System” (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Lima’s Wall(s) of Shame (Links to an external site.)

• Peru Dissolves its Congress, Setting Up a Fight for the Political Future (Links to an external site.)

• Peru Passes Coronavirus Risk to the Working Class (Links to an external site.)

• Peruvians Reject Politics as Usual (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• Revisiting Peru’s Agrarian Reform (Film Review) (Links to an external site.)

• Rings of Corruption in Peru (Links to an external site.)

• Silenced No More in Peru (Links to an external site.)

• The Politiquería of Vizcarra’s Call for Early Elections in Peru

• Who is Peru’s Frontrunner Pedro Castillo? (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Will the Peruvian Amazon Finally Have Political Representation in 2020? (Links to an external site.)

Suriname:

• Suriname on Election’s Eve (Links to an external site.)

Uruguay:

• From Police Reform to Police Repression: 50 Years after an Assassination (Links to an external site.)

Venezuela:

• A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies (Links to an external site.)

• Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)

• Caught in the Crossfire: Mothers’ Everyday Resistance in Caracas (Links to an external site.)

• Four Scenarios for Venezuela’s Parliamentary Elections (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)

• From Middle Power to Regime Change Specialist: Canada and the Venezuela Crisis (Links to an external site.)

• Juan Guaidó’s Policy Proposals: “The Venezuela to Come” or the Venezuela that has already been? (Links to an external site.)

• Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)

• Maduro’s Brown New Deal for Venezuela (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

• Narco-terrorism Charges Against Maduro and the “Cartel of the Suns” (Links to an external site.)

• Racism and State Violence in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)

• Regime Change “Made in the U.S.A.”

• Republicans Left a Minefield in Venezuela (Mar. 2021) (Links to an external site.)

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• Spectacle, Internationalization, and the Elephant in the Room in Venezuela’s Crisis (Links to an external site.)

• The Battle of “The Lost World” in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana (Links to an external site.)

• The Stalemate in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)

• The Triple Crisis in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)

• Untangling the Gordian Knot: Negotiating Shared Power in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)

• Venezuela’s Opposition at a Crossroads (also available in Spanish) (Links to an external site.)

• Venezuela’s Popular Sectors and the Future of a Country (Links to an external site.)

• Venezuelan Women Confront State Violence (Links to an external site.)

• Washington Doubles Down on its Military Intervention Script in Venezuela (Links to an external site.)

• Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans