Book, "The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America" by Nicole Fabricant

The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism. The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America 
by Nicole Fabricant

Book Review of:
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first-Century Socialism.
by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.

Abstract, The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant

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The Bolivian Climate Justice Movement: Mobilizing Indigeneity in Climate Change Negotiations 
by Kathryn Hicks and Nicole Fabricant

The Bolivian Platform against Climate Change is a coalition of civil society and social movement organizations working to address the effects of global warming in Bolivia and to influence the global community. Many of the organizations use indigenous philosophy and worldviews to contest normative conceptions of development. A study of the growth of this movement drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2010 reveals a complex relationship between state and nonstate actors that has had a striking impact on the global community despite the failure of multilateral climate change negotiations.

Book, "Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy. A Study of Regimes of Exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru" by Claire Wright

Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy

A Study of Regimes of Exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

CLAIRE WRIGHT

Lexington Books

Pages: 212 • Size: 6 1/4 x 9 3/8

978-1-4985-1527-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4985-1528-3 • eBook • December 2015 • $84.99 • (£54.95)

Subjects: Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American, History / Latin America / South America, Political Science / General,Political Science / History & Theory

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Book, "Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy" Edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker

Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy 
Edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker

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List Price: $38.99
ISBN: 978-1-4616-0190-6
Publication Date: April 2008 404pp

When elected civilians replaced military authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the 1980's, democracy seemed at hand. Yet those nominally democratic regimes implemented widely unpopular neo-liberal policies, opening the economies to global market forces with devastating impact on the poor. This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines interpret the new wave of social movements, including movements in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, the Vía Campesina global peasant network, and Mesoamerican coalitions against regional free trade agreements. This volume assembles original research from a variety of case studies in a student – friendly format. Section introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America.

Book, "Latin America's Radical Left. Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century" Edited by Steve Ellner

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Book:  "Latin America's Radical Left. Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century"
Edited By Steve Ellner. Foreward by William I. Robinson

Book, "Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems" by Hobart A. Spalding

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Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems 
by Hobart A. Spalding

Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Book, "The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire" Edited By Jeffrey R. Webber and Barry Carr

The New Latin American Left 
Cracks in the Empire 
EDITED BY JEFFERY R. WEBBER AND BARRY CARR 
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Book, "The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America" by Nicole Fabricant

The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism. The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America 
by Nicole Fabricant

Book Review of:
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first-Century Socialism.
by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.

Observations from Venezuela: July 31, 2009: by LAP Editor Miguel Tinker Salas

Observations from Venezuela: July 31, 2009 

by Miguel Tinker Salas

LAP Editor 

I would submit that events in Honduras are not isolated, but rather part of a right wing counterattack taking shape in Latin America. I have been arguing for sometime that the right is rebuilding in Latin America, and has decided to act with Obama / Clinton in the White House. Bush / Cheney and company did not give them any coverage and had become of little use to them. A “liberal” in the White House, with extensive ties to the conservative forces gives them the kind of coverage they had hoped for. It is no coincidence that Venezuelan right wing commentators applauded the naming of Clinton to the White House indicating “now we have an ally in a position of power.” The old cold-warrior axiom that the best antidote against the left is a liberal government in Washington gains new meaning under Obama with Clinton at the State Department.