Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 2014"

TL;DR: The authors categorised the forms of narco-violence in Mexico in light of the literature on terrorism and contemporary Mexican politics, and suggested that three overlapping dimensions of Mexican drug violence should be considered terrorism: (a) Narco-terror as a struggle for regional political control; (b) narco terror as a practice ordered by cartel leaders rather than spontaneous violence of foot soldiers; and (c)Narco-terrorism as an expansion strategy from solely drug trafficking to other kinds of organized crime.

TL;DR: In this article, the apparent contradictions of the FSLN's commitment to both restoring women's rights regarding violence against women and promoting Christian family values and reconciliation are explored, based on the state's use of moral regulation to make a personified patriarchal social order seem normal by encouraging consent and, when necessary, applying coercion.

TL;DR: A comparative analysis of two SEZs in Panama that defy conventional export-processing strategies by focussing on re-exports and regional headquartering operations is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain the political and institutional factors that affect reproductive rights policies in Argentina and Mexico and reveal that federal arrangements define the arenas in which advocates can challenge governments.

TL;DR: The chachawarmi ideal has been criticised for disguising gendered exploitation in Latin America's turn away from neoliberalism and adoption of decolonising alternatives to development as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a narrative of Bolivian socio-political history over the last 60 years, establishing four main phases of identitarian articulations/disarticulations.

TL;DR: In the absence of a robust civil society, excessive funding tends to encourage clientelism and corruption rather than accountable and transparent administration as mentioned in this paper, and this is particularly the case in regions such as Cusco, which benefit disproportionately from this system.

TL;DR: The women's movement inherited from the Sandinistas specific ideas about social justice and social change based on a primary identity, a corresponding hierarchy of rights and a notion of the state as the privileged site of power.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors link reflections about Brazilian race relations with institutional transnational dialogues between Brazil and "Africa" and highlight that, not by coincidence, this fact is happening at a historical moment when programmes of "black" affirmative action and other differential politics in favour of Afro-descendants are taking off in the country, and also at a time when Brazil is expanding its geopolitical and economic interests in Africa.

TL;DR: In the months before the election of Daniel Ortega, a new feminist organisation, the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM), was created as mentioned in this paper, which shared the priority of avoiding the return to power of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), because they considered it to be the "worst-case scenario".

TL;DR: Costa Rica and Panama, two Central American countries with nearly universal public healthcare programs, have come to enjoy such broad coverage as mentioned in this paper, and the distinct paths each is taking towards reaching the populations still left out of healthcare coverage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impact that different types of political leaders can have on how well democracy works in Latin America and offer some ideas regarding the impact of different political leaders.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the FSLN's policy responds to shifting international frames regarding sexuality and human rights as well as to efforts to separate the LGBT movement from its allies in the feminist movement.

TL;DR: The authors showed that structural factors, rather than diplomatic action, influenced the direction of Brazil's exports as the country became more integrated into the world economy, contrary to conventional wisdom, which emphasises the state's role in driving Brazilian integration into the global economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the contemporary activism of women's organisations of Nicaragua's North Atlantic Coast autonomous region is analyzed, and it is argued that the role of Coast women activists has been central to articulating, in a reflexive way, a position as indigenous, Mestizo and Afro-descendent women in order to adapt a human rights approach to the regional political-cultural context, and to use it effectively to achieve a life free of violence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between sustainability discourse and its local dimensions to reveal the role of sustainability in the reformulation of the revolution in the island of Cuba, where private urban agricultural ventures, initially a spontaneous response to food shortages during the Special Period, soon became a state-sponsored project related to global notions of sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the factors that can promote synergies between handicraft and conservation of local plants from which resources are derived for handicraft in the Araucaria region, Chile.

TL;DR: This article explored local Yucatecan politicking and the Yucacan-Mexican relationship at the time of independence, using Yucatan's pronunciamiento for independence in September 1821 as a case study.

TL;DR: The most important pre-1979 women's movements in Nicaragua were first-wave feminism and the right-wing Somocista women's movement as mentioned in this paper, and it is useful to examine these two movements jointly in order to assess their legacy with regard to struggles over the relationship between women's organisations and political parties, age/generational differences, electoral democracy versus clientelism, and class and leadership.

TL;DR: In this article, the specific way in which Mexico linked with North America worked as a causal mechanism during the country's democratisation was explained. But in the end, an inadequate project of internationalisation, Spearheaded by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), failed to fulfill its democratising potential.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how economic rationality in Colombia came to play a growing role in the management of economic policy and social analysis, as a case study of a process that is observed in various parts of the world.

TL;DR: This article argued that the Sandinista denial of the importance of ethnic difference in Nicaragua allowed Miskitu nationalists, using the language of religion, to co-opt Mayangna leaders, while subsequent Sandinistas violence turned Mayan civilians against the revolution.