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18/02/2024

Women are the silent victims of Colombia’s conflict, exploited and abused by guerrillas as much as by their enemies. Review: Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling

Women are the silent victims of Colombia’s conflict, exploited and abused by guerrillas as much as by their enemies. Review: Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling, by Gavin O'Toole

14/02/2024

After holding El Salvador's millennial dictator at arms' length because of the bad smell, Joe Biden is suddenly cosying up to Nayib Bukele

Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O'Toole

10/02/2024

PODCAST: Why did the Sandinista Revolution attract global attention? We look at two recent books on Nicaragua

We look at recent titles that help to explain why the Sandinista Revolution attracted global attention

07/02/2024

Want to know how empires can be humbled? Ask Nicaragua. Review: Nicaragua Must Survive, Eline van Ommen

How did a tiny Central American country besieged by the US get the better of the empire? Review: Nicaragua Must Survive, Eline van Ommen, by Gavin O'Toole

03/02/2024

Discredited, corrupt and creaking, is the DEA up to its old tricks again in Mexico? Read about its latest shenanigans with Carlos A Pérez Ricart
https://latamrob.substack.com/p/the-dea-has-attacked-lopez-obrador

31/01/2024

Mexico has put the US in the dock over gun running that fuels cartel violence, writes Gavin O’Toole
https://latamrob.substack.com/p/bite-the-bala

27/01/2024

Are human rights an essential tool of justice—or a neoliberal ‘opium of the people’? Review: Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman

Are human rights an essential tool of justice—or a neoliberal ‘opium of the people’? Review: Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman, by Gavin O'Toole

24/01/2024

Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution, by Mateo Jarquín HERE

Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution, Mateo Jarquín, by Gavin O'Toole

22/01/2024

20/01/2024

Podcast: An interview with Asel Luzarraga, a Basque anarchist framed in Chile for supporting the indigenous Mapuche and author of The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas

An interview with Asel Luzarraga, a Basque anarchist framed in Chile for supporting the indigenous Mapuche and author of The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas

18/01/2024

The bloody fingerprints of the US and Israel are all over the security clampdown by Ecuador’s new president—posing awkward questions about the country’s spiral into violence The LONG READ here:

The bloody fingerprints of the US and Israel are all over the security clampdown by Ecuador’s new president—posing questions about the country’s spiral into violence. The LONG READ by Gavin O’Toole

16/01/2024

Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia—and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide. Review: The Lettered Indian, Brooke Larson

Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia—and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide. Review: The Lettered Indian, Brooke Larson, by Gavin O'Toole

12/01/2024

US motives for intervening in Cuba's independence war were never wholesomely humanitarian. Review: Colonial Reckoning, Louis A Pérez America

US motives for intervening in Cuba's independence war were never wholesomely humanitarian. Review: Colonial Reckoning, Louis A Pérez, by Gavin O'Toole

09/01/2024

America’s useful idiot: In their hurry to get rich quick in Essequibo, Guyana’s elites are blindly handing the keys of their country to the US HERE https://latamrob.substack.com/p/americas-useful-idiot

05/01/2024

Jailed by Chile for highlighting persecution of the Mapuche, a Basque anarchist now seeks justice. Review: The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas, Asel Luzarraga
HERE https://latamrob.substack.com/p/framing-a-free-spirit

01/01/2024

Is there really a ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border—or are the empire’s chickens simply coming home to roost? Review (English and Spanish): The Border Reader, eds Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza

Is there really a ‘crisis’ at the US–Mexico border, or are the empire’s chickens simply coming home to roost? Review (English and Spanish): The Border Reader, eds Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza

28/12/2023

Review: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940, Elizabeth O’Brien

Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940, Elizabeth O’Brien, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

20/12/2023

Review: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton HERE

The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

13/12/2023

Review: Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, Rachel Nolan

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, Rachel Nolan, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

09/12/2023

Review: Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production, Rebecca Janzen
https://latamrob.substack.com/p/blood-and-culture

07/12/2023

Review: The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen HERE: https://latamrob.substack.com/p/refuge-and-race

07/12/2023

Review: Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, Nathaniel Morris

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940, Nathaniel Morris, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

28/11/2023

Review: Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela, John Brown HERE:

Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela, John Brown, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

24/11/2023

Review: Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music, Eunice Rojas

Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music, Eunice Rojas, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

20/11/2023

Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, William Marcy, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole HERE:

Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, William Marcy, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

16/11/2023

Review: Por Siempre, by José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar

Por Siempre, José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

08/11/2023

Review: Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870-1930, eds Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte history

Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870–1930, eds Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

01/11/2023

Podcast 17: An interview with Amy Wright, author of Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now, 2023, Vanderbilt University Press

Listen now (17 mins) | An interview with Amy Wright, author of Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

31/10/2023

Review: Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences, Ian Merkel

Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences, Ian Merkel, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

28/10/2023

Review: The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization, Whitney K Taylor

The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization, Whitney Taylor, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole