The Latin American Diaries
Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico’s Costa Chica
by Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology at University of Southampton and Visiting Fellow at Institute of Latin American Studies During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there...
The Latin American media is ignoring climate change at its peril
by Javier Farje, Journalist, TV Presenter, Consultant, and former Editor of Latin America Bureau In 2009, on the eve of the Conference of the Parties 15 (COP 15), in Copenhagen, the World Bank published a revealing document. Entitled Low Carbon, High Growth, Latin...
Galeano’s Open Veins Continue To Bleed: The Latin American Development Legacy
by Jo Morley, Postgraduate Student on the SAS Human Rights Consortium MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights April 2015 brought the news that Eduardo Galeano, whose seminal book The Open Veins of Latin America established him as one of the region’s most...
East of Eden: The Vatican’s Role in Socialist Cuba-United States rapprochement
by Dr Luis Pérez-Simon, Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research, Institute of Latin American Studies It is a historical fact that Cuba has always punched above its weight in matters economic, political and cultural, especially starting in the latter part...
América Latina en tiempo real
by His Excellency Manuel J. Benítez de Castro, ILAS Associate Fellow ILAS Associate Fellow Manuel J. Benítez de Castro of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives an introduction to his recent reflections on the cultural, social, political, and economic factors...
Spain’s Podemos Just Latest Victim of Toxic Venezuela Monster
by Dr Asa Cusack, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2014-15 Spain's traditional parties aim to halt the remarkable rise of Podemos by painting links to Venezuela as foreign intervention. Like many Podemos policies this is an import from Latin America. The good news is that it...
Adaptive Economies in Latin America: How Mexico’s Holbox Became “Whale Shark Island”
by Professor Michael Redclift, ILAS Associate Fellow Professor Michael Redclift, Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, presents a snapshot of adaptive change on Holbox, just off Mexico's...
ALBA: an important but poorly understood regional project
by Dr Asa Cusack, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2014-15 As the Institute of Latin American Studies prepares to host the conference Ten Years of ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects on 26 February 2015, stipendiary fellow Dr Asa Cusack considers how economic and political...
A Short Guide To Understanding Venezuela
by Dr Matt Wilde, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2013-14 The last few months have been testing times for Venezuelans. In February a series of anti-government protests broke out across the country, igniting social tensions that had been simmering since the death of Hugo...
Photographic exhibition on Latin American landscapes
by Dr Michela Coletta and Dr Malayna Raftopoulos The Institute of Latin American Studies is delighted to announce that a photographic exhibition on Latin American landscapes is now on display at the University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, Senate...
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