NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 51, Issue 2 (2019)

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Corruption Wars: New Narratives of Graft, Influence, and Power in the Americas

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Corruption Wars
Laura Weiss & Jonathan DeVore
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Fuel Feuds in Mexico
Reviving Mexico’s oil industry will require a crackdown on fuel theft in Mexico. What are the implications for López Obrador’s progressive mandate?
Nicholas Cunningham
Pages: 119-122
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Bolsonaro’s Bad Education
In his brief tenure, Brazil’s rightwing president has systematically undone years of Workers’ Party achievements in social policy, alleging corruption. His next target: schools.
Andre Pagliarini
Pages: 123-126
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Abstention Wins in El Salvador
Though Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele claimed a narrow first-round victory, low voter turnout reveals deep problems in the country’s political landscape.
Karla Cativo
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 30 May 2019
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The Missteps of Venezuela’s Opposition—Again
Venezuela’s self-proclaimed ‘interim’ president Juan Guaidó has made a number of strategic errors that raise questions about the kind of regime his presidency seeks.
Julia Buxton
Pages: 130-133
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Corruption Behind Bars
The egregiously corrupt—though technically legal—system of private detention in the United States exploits immigrants, lining the pockets of jailers while incentivizing government enforcement strategies.
David Hernández
Pages: 134-140
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Prosecuting Presidents in El Salvador
Corruption prosecutions against former presidents in El Salvador did little to punish thieving public officials, but they did help tip the balance of power back toward the Right—revealing the limits and biases of anti-corruption discourse today.
Hilary Goodfriend
Pages: 141-145
Published online: 30 May 2019
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The Odebrecht Tsunami
The Odebrecht scandal highlights the phenomenon of corporate capture of the state in Brazil and Peru. Yet new investigative tools show promise in detecting and responding to multinational graft.
Francisco Durand
Pages: 146-152
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Brazil: Corruption as a Mode of Rule
Tracing the roots of corruption in Brazil from Vargas to Bolsonaro reveals a political strategy that has long been woven into the fabric of Brazilian politics.
Benjamin Fogel
Pages: 153-158
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Devouring the Public Good: Everyday Forms of Financial Extractivism
In rural Brazil, local actors engage in corruption from below, diverting public resources away from the marginalized populations they are intended to help—and into their own pockets.
Jonathan DeVore
Pages: 159-166
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Rings of Corruption in Peru
In Peru, mainstream anti-corruption efforts return for a second act. Without political and structural change at every level, can Peru’s weak institutions rise to the challenge?
César R. Nureña & Federico Helfgott
Pages: 167-173
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Neoliberalism and Corruption in Mexico: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Technocrats sold austerity and privatization in Mexico as a cudgel against corruption. Instead, elites have used neoliberalism as a cover for corporate corruption.
Edwin F. Ackerman
Pages: 174-179
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Gun Runners
How the legal and illegal gun trade to Mexico represents a new form of corruption fueling violence in the Americas
John Lindsay-Poland
Pages: 180-181
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Building Corruption in Haiti
In Haiti, illicit income extraction is a constantly constructed mode of governance, helping to explain popular outrage surrounding the recent PetroCaribe scandal.
Claire Antone Payton
Pages: 182-187
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Corruption Narratives and Colonial Technologies in Puerto Rico
How a long-term view of U.S colonialism in Puerto Rico reveals the contradictory “political work” of corruption discourse, both in extending colonial rule and in resisting it
Joaquín Villanueva
Pages: 188-193
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Corruption and Crisis in Post-Coup Honduras (Interview)
An interview with Tirza Flores Lanza, a Honduran judge deposed for speaking out against the 2009 coup, on structural corruption and impunity and the role rights defenders play in fighting for a justice system that serves the people, not the powerful.
Heather Gies
Pages: 194-199
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Struggle Teeters on the Edge
What’s behind Guatemala’s constitutional crisis and the battle over the International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG)?
Rachel A. Schwartz
Pages: 200-205
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Arts and Reviews

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julia keleher confiesa que cree en el fin de la historia (Poesía)
Raquel Salas Rivera
Pages: 206-207
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Review of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Lauren Kaori Gurley
Pages: 208-209
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Review of Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism by John Lindsay-Poland
Emma Shaw Crane
Pages: 210-211
Published online: 30 May 2019
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Review of Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture by Ed Morales
Melissa Colón
Pages: 212-213
Published online: 30 May 2019
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