A Proposal for Plurinational Popular Power Woven from Below
Leonidas Iza, Ecuador’s presidential candidate with the Indigenous-aligned Pachakutik political movement, outlines his vision for governing a Plurinational State ...
Transgressive Notes from Ecuador’s Prisons
President Guillermo Lasso's Commission for Penitentiary Dialogue and Pacification was a failure. Now, a new Prison Observatory seeks to generate ...
Rural Communities and the Making of Modern Peru (Review)
In his new book, historian Javier Puente chronicles how rural communities in the Andean highlands played a key role in ...
Peru’s Media Faces a Crisis Within a Crisis
With Peru's mainstream media concentrated in a few hands, citizens turn to the internet to challenge hegemonic narratives. The results ...
The Small Matter of Suing Chevron (Review)
Suzana Sawyer's new book uncovers the machinations of corporate power and judicial imperialism in a decades-long struggle for accountability in ...
¿Estamos Saliendo Adelante? Assessing Bolivia’s Macroeconomic Stability
Falling central bank reserves spark speculation and threaten inflation, increasing frictions within the MAS party ...
Water For All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (Review)
Sarah T. Hines's 140-year history of water conflict in Cochabamba, Bolivia paints a picture of environmental world-building that is plodding, ...
Peru: Infinite Protest and Indolent Elites
The anti-government protests that erupted in December have a clear political agenda: new elections and the convening of a constituent ...
