NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 55, Issue 3 (2023)

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Afterlives of Empire in the Caribbean

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editorial
The Afterlives of Empire in the Caribbean
Nicole Burrowes & Mónica A. Jiménez
Pages: 213-215
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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AROUND THE REGION

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Bolivian Women Take Justice into Their Own Hands
Bolivia’s 2019 political crisis sparked a historic feminist awakening. New revelations of systemic sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have further ignited the struggle against patriarchal impunity.
Julianne Chandler
Pages: 216-221
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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A War to the Death
A Truth Commission set to deliver a final report next year is helping to broaden the conversation on Cold War state terrorism in Mexico. The country’s dirty war, however, never really ended.
Benjamin T. Smith & Alexander Aviña
Pages: 222-228
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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Uprooted Indigenous Venezuelans Struggle to Make a Life in Trinidad
Retracing historical routes across the Caribbean, significant numbers of Warao migrants have settled in a geographically close but culturally distant new home, facing precarious conditions.
Khalea Robertson
Pages: 229-233
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REPORT

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Remembering Grenada’s Revolution Beyond Cold War Narratives
Forty years after the U.S. invasion, centering Caribbean perspectives on the rise and demise of a revolutionary movement holds the possibility of stepping out from empire’s shadow and imagining alternative futures.
Shalini Puri
Pages: 234-243
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Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory
As the United States and its allies push renewed foreign intervention, the uses and abuses of the first Black republic as a testing ground of imperialism offer stark warnings. Haiti still struggles to be free.
Jemima Pierre
Pages: 244-250
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Apartheid in the Caribbean
In the Dominican Republic, policies toward Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent bear ominous parallels with Israel’s racist repression of the Palestinian people.
Simón Rodríguez
Pages: 251-259
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The Long Shadow of Britain’s Anti-Black Immigration Policy
Seventy-five years ago, the British government recruited the first Caribbean migrants of the Windrush generation to England. They deserve justice for decades of ongoing racist mistreatment.
Peter Timothy
Pages: 260-265
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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Straddling Empires, Jamaica Navigates Road to Republic Status
Sixty years after independence, the island could soon become the latest Caribbean nation to break ties with the British monarchy. Imperial legacies continue to play a defining role.
Traci-Ann Wint
Pages: 266-271
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For Afro-Mosquitian LGBT Organizers, Resistance is Survival
Seen from the Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua’s slide toward authoritarianism compounds a long history of settler colonial violence. Struggles for autonomy actively build a more just future.
Melanie White
Pages: 272-278
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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Maroons and Indigenous Peoples versus the State in Suriname
Since independence, extractive industries and government corruption have threatened traditional territories and autonomy. Forest-dwelling communities are still defending their land.
Richard Price
Pages: 279-285
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Guyana’s Oil Dorado
As the fossil fuel consensus grows ever more untenable, an oil bonanza heats up offshore Guyana. Despite the odds, affected communities are pushing back, with women at the forefront.
Janette Bulkan, Roshini Kempadoo & D. Alissa Trotz
Pages: 286-293
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Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize
For Q’eqchi’ and Mopan communities of Toledo District, resisting land grabs and stewarding the commons are central to struggles to protect territory, heritage, and collective ways of being.
Roberto Kus, Levi Gahman, Adaeze Greenidge, Filiberto Penados & Shelda-Jane Smith
Pages: 294-304
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The Predatory Perils of Cannabis Legalization in Jamaica
Medicinal marijuana markets present a major economic opportunity for Jamaica. Without steps to combat inequities, traditional ganja growers will be left behind.
Kevin Edmonds
Pages: 305-311
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A Call for Collective Organizing in Puerto Rico’s Coffee-Growing Communities
The future of the island’s coffee farming tradition hangs in the balance. Finding collaborative solutions to revive the industry and withstand the storms must be an urgent priority.
Francis Russell & Carlos E. Ramos-Scharrón
Pages: 312-318
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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A Dangerous Debt-Climate Nexus
In a warming world, technocratic fixes are inadequate responses to vulnerability. achieving climate and economic justice in the Caribbean calls for reparative solutions.
Ketaki Zodgekar, Avery Raines, Fayola Jacobs & Patrick Bigger
Pages: 319-326
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ARTS AND REVIEWS

Review Article
Provoking Us to Change the World
Connecting the transnational dimensions of extractivism from one global oil hub to another, photography offers a framework to imagine alternatives to fossil fuels in Guyana, Texas, and beyond.
Roshini Kempadoo
Pages: 327-331
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La Aduana del Puerto Viejo
Mónica A. Jiménez
Page: 332
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Strike Against the Octopus: A Review of Suyapa Portillo’s Roots of Resistance
Steven Osuna
Pages: 333-335
Published online: 30 Aug 2023
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