George Ciccariello-Maher (Drexel): Building the Commune: Insurgent Government, Communal State. Jennifer Cyr (Arizona): From Cartelization to Collapse: The Demise of the Venezuelan Party System and Its Consequences. Meet Ricardo Hausmann, the academic “hitman” who infuriates Venezuela's president. Nicolas Maduro is facing a new threat from an unlikely place: old-school leftists who accuse him of betraying the socialist legacy that carried him to power. Martin Nilsson (Linnaeus): Bolivia Under the Left-Wing Presidency of Evo Morales: Indigenous People and the End of Postcolonialism? Miguel A. Buitrago (Hamburg): Bolivia's Ambivalent Process of Change. John Otis on how Bolivia's vice president used media to control his image — and that of the government. Climate change concerns push Chile to forefront of carbon tax movement. Deforestation in Brazil is surging again — after years of decline. Jeroen Dewulf (UC-Berkeley): New Man in the Tropics: The Nietzschean Roots of Gilberto Freyre’s Multiracial Identity Concept. Osmundo Pinho (UFRB): The Black Male Body and Sex Wars in Brazil. Diego Azzi on the limits of the “social pact” in Brazil. The decline of the Sarney political family opens the way for a shift in Brazil. When neo-fascism was power in Argentina: Federico Finchelstein on an anniversary few want to remember. Robert Farley on the long shadow of the Falklands War: “Why did Argentina pick a fight with a country that had nuclear weapons?” A look at how South American nations struggle to find new economic model.
