NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 51, Issue 4 (2019)

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Radical Cities

Editor’s Note

Editorial
Radical Cities in Latin America: Past and Present
Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Heather Gies
Pages: 313-315
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Around the Region

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A Changing Tide in Argentina?
Mauricio Macri’s election was supposed to herald the end of the Pink Tide and the rise of the Right in Latin America. After a disastrous mandate marked by deep austerity and widespread unrest, does his defeat—and Peronism’s return—signal a new leftist wave?
Liz Mason-Deese
Pages: 316-322
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Honduras: A Decade of Popular Resistance
In 2009, a military coup ousted Manuel Zelaya and unleashed a decade of intensified neoliberalism, corruption, and repression. But as recent protests against the privatization of health care and education reveal, Hondurans have long continued the struggle.
Eugenio Sosa & Paul Almeida
Pages: 323-327
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Amazon in Flames (Interview)
Brazilian ecologist Dr. Bernardo M. Flores sheds light on the long-term ecological fallout of devastating Amazon fires and cuts through rhetoric to pinpoint the real threats to the rainforest under President Bolsonaro.
Michael Fox
Pages: 328-332
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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The Highs and Lows of Bolivia’s Rebel City
Known as the epicenter of anti-austerity rebellion during Bolivia’s Gas War, El Alto remains a powerful example of the potential for local movements to leverage their cities to shape national politics.
Angus McNelly
Pages: 333-340
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Creative Resistance in Medellín’s Changing Public Space
Medellín’s flagship public space interventions fall short of remedying structural problems, but for local residents in Comuna 13, the city’s changes offer a platform to advance their struggles for social justice in creative ways.
Alexandra Young
Pages: 341-347
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power
Once-hopeful experiments in local democracy have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping Venezuela. What can we learn from their demise?
María Pilar García-Guadilla & Carlos G. Torrealba M.
Pages: 348-355
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Occupy Estelita Puts Urban Rights in Motion in Northeastern Brazil
The movement to save the historic wharf in Recife put real estate development on pause while creatively reimagining public space as urban commons.
Kaspar Loftin
Pages: 356-363
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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When Winning Elections Is Not Enough
Despite high expectations for progressive change, the mayor of Asunción has largely stalled in the effort to implement meaningful reforms. What went wrong?
William Costa
Pages: 364-370
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Reclaiming Montevideo’s Vacant Spaces
Collaborative planning initiatives championed by housing rights movements and the municipal government in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, offer opportunities for residents long sidelined to reclaim space in the city’s center.
Adriana Goñi Mazzitelli
Pages: 371-378
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Urbanismo Miliciano in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro’s poor communities face increasing vulnerability as armed groups expand control of entire neighborhoods, operating illicit businesses from protection rackets to real estate, with dire consequences for local residents living under a violent parallel state.
Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves
Pages: 379-385
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Cooperatives Battle Displacement in Buenos Aires
In one of South America’s largest cities, housing projects led and managed by grassroots groups create dignified homes and communities while promoting truly participatory processes of urban development.
Valeria Procupez & María Carla Rodríguez
Pages: 386-393
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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The Afro-Brazilian Struggle for Visibility in Ceará
In Fortaleza, the Black movement has scored important victories in shedding light on the depths of racism in Brazil. But will it be able to transform awareness into structural change?
Tshombe Miles
Pages: 394-400
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Building Homes, Building Lives in Mexico City
An autonomous housing cooperative on the outskirts of Mexico City has taken the well-being of the urban poor into its own hands, building homes, community, and a newfound sense of identity.
Sam Law
Pages: 401-409
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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From the Archives

Article
Hasta Siempre, OSPAAAL!
Closing its doors after over half a century of promoting internationalism from Havana, the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America leaves a historical and artistic record of unprecedented Third World solidarity.
Fernando Camacho Padilla & Eugenia Palieraki
Pages: 410-421
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Feature Essay

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Hustling Fuel, Striking Gold: Smuggling in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands
A resource war brews in the hostile hinterlands around the Guyana-Venezuela border, deepening the contours of an ongoing territorial dispute and an ingrained history of violent extraction and trafficking.
Vikram Tamboli
Pages: 422-432
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Arts and Reviews

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The Collaged Neighborhood > Our Defacto Vortex
Edwin Torres
Page: 433
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Book Review
Review of Steve Striffler’s Solidarity: Latin America and the U. S. Left in the Era of Human Rights
Julie A. Charlip
Pages: 434-436
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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Review of Monica Muñoz Martinez’s The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Marisol LeBrón
Pages: 437-440
Published online: 04 Dec 2019
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