NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 49, Issue 2 (2017)

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Wall Off Trump: Confronting the Donald Trump Era

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Wall Off Trump
Joshua Frens-String & Alejandro Velasco
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Around the Region

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Argentina’s Anti-Immigrant About-Face
Mauricio Macri’s conservative government rolls back one of the world’s most progressive migration laws.
Alejandro Grimson
Pages: 123-126
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Ecuador: Slowing a Conservative Restoration
Lenín Moreno’s election holds off the return of the political Right in Ecuador for now, but the country’s powerful Indigenous movements stand ready to challenge the new administration at the grassroots.
Marc Becker
Pages: 127-131
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Venezuela’s Deepening Logic of Extraction
The Maduro government’s decision to push ahead with the Orinoco Mining Arc initiative shows that extractive capitalism is alive and well in Venezuela.
Antulio Rosales
Pages: 132-135
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Oscar López Rivera: Hasta Su Regreso
After 36 years in prison, López Rivera’s release shines a light on the struggle that lies beyond the island’s economic crisis: political independence.
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan
Pages: 136-138
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Feature Essay

How Not to Assemble a Country
In El Salvador, the legacies of violence persist and intensify.
Óscar Martínez
Pages: 139-144
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Report

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Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall
Trump’s plan to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border is just one of a growing list of actions that extend U.S. border patrol efforts far past the international boundary itself.
Todd Miller & Joseph Nevins
Pages: 145-151
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Decoding “Build the Wall”: What Liberal Critics Miss
John Patrick Leary
Pages: 146-148
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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The Long History of Self-Deportation
Trump’s anti-immigrant policies build on more than a century of attempts to create fear and terror within U.S. immigrant communities.
Adam Goodman
Pages: 152-158
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Dispatches from “Baby Jail” in South Texas
Lawyers and other volunteers have provided assistance to women and child refugees in family detention centers since 2014. Under Trump, uncertainty reigns.
Nara Milanich
Pages: 159-164
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Defying U.S.-Sanctioned Violence at the Border
The School of the Americas Watch Encuentro resists the deepening militarization of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Steve Pavey
Pages: 165-172
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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NAFTA Traffic
How Trump could exacerbate the devastating effects of NAFTA for Mexico’s autoworkers
Dawn Paley
Pages: 173-181
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Confronting Trump’s Trade Agenda from the Left
Deborah James
Pages: 174-177
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Re-Arming the Drug War in Mexico and Central America
With John Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security and the Trump administration's close ties with the U.S. gun industry, the militarization of the drug war deepens.
John Lindsay-Poland & Laura Weiss
Pages: 182-185
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Caudillo Trouble
Liberal comparisons to Latin American populism obscure Trumpism's domestic origins—to our peril.
Tony Wood
Pages: 186-189
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Sanctuary: A Movement Redefined
Immigrant rights activists draw on the legacies of the 1980s Sanctuary Movement to build a broad-based coalition defending communities of color.
Kyle Barron
Pages: 190-197
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Unafraid and Unapologetic, Still
Three cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team in New York City on the past, present, and future of undocumented youth organizing.
Alyshia Gálvez
Pages: 198-205
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Immigrants’ Rights Are Workers’ Rights
The struggle for workers’ rights under Trump is also a struggle to protect the rights of all immigrants, both documented and undocumented alike.
Aviva Chomsky
Pages: 206-211
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Cuba in the Crosshairs
With the Cuban economy struggling and with political change underway on both sides of the Florida Straits, the nature and terms of U.S.-Cuba normalization look uncertain.
Michael J. Bustamante
Pages: 212-220
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Arts and Reviews

Maracuyá
After Nikki Wallschlaeger
Jennif(f)er Tamayo
Page: 221
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Review of Robert A. Karl’s
Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Néstor Castañeda
Pages: 222-223
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Review of Elisabeth Jay Friedman’s
Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America
Colette Perold
Pages: 224-225
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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Review of Dan La Botz’s
What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis
Fred Rosen
Pages: 226-228
Published online: 07 Jun 2017
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