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On the Chilean Navy’s Nationalistic/Xenohobic Naval Chants and Historical...
This week, Chile’s navy found itself gaining unwanted attention after video emerged of Chilean sailors chanting “I will kill Argentines, I will shoot Bolivians, I will slit the throat of Peruvians.”...
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Around Latin America [Human Rights Edition]
There has been a recent wave of stories regarding human rights in Latin America in both the past and present worth covering. Mexico -With the ongoing issue of the disappeared in Mexico in the 21st...
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Around Latin America
While Hugo Chávez’s death has perhaps understandably been the main focus of news from the region this week, it’s far from the only event of note. Here are some of the other stories coming out of Latin...
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On the Selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francisco
As most are aware by now, Catholic cardinals selected Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope, the first time a Pope is from Latin America. (In addition to being the first Latin American pope, he’s...
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Around Latin America
-While many in the Americas celebrated the announcement of the first American pope last year, not all citizens (including Catholic clergy) in Francis I’s home country are pleased with Bergoglio or the...
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Former Dictator Calls for Military Uprising in Argentina
Jorge Videla, the first military leader of Argentina’s military dictatorship who governed for five of the regime’s seven years, has apparently called for the Argentine military to arm itself for an...
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Margaret Thatcher Dead
Margaret Thatcher has died at 87. Obviously, British & diplomatic historians have more of her career to consider, but it’s not without it’s Latin American element. As others will also note, in...
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On Thatcher, Argentina, and the Catholic Church during Dictatorships
Yesterday, Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns & Money and I discussed Thatcher’s death from a Latin American perspective, the Catholic Church during authoritarian governments, and transitions to...
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Today in “The Least Surprising News You’ll Hear”
England did not extend an invitation to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral to Argentine president Cristina Kirchner. I can’t possibly imagine why…
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Around Latin America
-Marking the first major protest of the year, over 100,000 Chilean students took to the streets to continue to push for educational reform, an issue that has garnered much support and been a consistent...
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Post-Election Paraguay – Is a Return to Mercosur Next?
After the institutional coup against Fernando Lugo last June, politico-economic trade bloc Mercosur suspended Paraguay’s membership. The response was swift, and Horacio Cartes, who at the time was a...
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Israel, Guatemala, and the Question of Genocide
As the trial of Efraín Ríos Montt appears to be headed back to square one after the Constitutional Court’s ruling, NACLA has a fascinating piece up on Israel’s ties to Ríos Montt: Known as “Brother...
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On Allegations that Argentine & Italian Dictatorships Fixed World Cups
This week, FIFA is hosting a conference on the World Cup in history. Scholars from throughout the world are gathering to look at how the World Cup has been more than just a sporting event, filtering...
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South American Dictatorships in Images
Greg Weeks points to this incredible, if harrowing, collection of photos from Operation Condor. The photos were found in Paraguay’s “Archives of Terror,” which documented the deaths of tens of...
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Around Latin America
-30,000: that is the number of families who have been relocated as Brazil has prepared for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. -New Paraguayan President and wealthy businessman Horacio Cartes is set...
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Around Latin America
-Two former executives from Ford in Argentina have been charged (among other things) with having ties to the abduction of 24 workers for Ford during the military regime of 1976-1983. -El Salvador’s...
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On Protests, Maps, and the Limits of Quantitative Data
Erik Loomis points to this fascinating map allegedly marking “every protest on the planet since 1979.” The piece explaining the map itself, however, acknowledges the limits of taking such data too far:...
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Around Latin America
-Yesterday, Chile marked the fortieth anniversary of the coup that overthrew democratically-elected president Salvador Allende and ushered in the 17-year military dictatorship that killed over 3000...
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On This Date in Latin America – September 16, 1976: Argentina’s “Night of the...
Given the recent discussion of memory and military dictatorships, it seems worthwhile to recall one of the many horrific events of Argentina’s military dictatorship: La Noche de los Lápices, or “Night...
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The Ties between the Ayotzinapa Killings and Argentina’s Military Dictatorship
Over a month ago, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, went “missing” after mobilizing and protesting for improvements in Mexico’s educational policy and...
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