In this sense, Lomnitz writes within the Weberian register of order as the central imperative of the state. Below, I suggest how a critique of Lomnitz might be developed by focusing on capital ...

With flowy skirts and pants made of shredded banana trees, simple cotton cloths tied around their faces as masks, and cardboard cutouts of computer chips hanging around their necks, Vulgar Fraction, a ...

Carnival preparations are in full swing in Rio de Janeiro this week. Costumes are frantically sewn in secret warehouses, sweaty street parties fill the city center with music and glitter, and in the ...

In 2016, I interviewed 26 members of the Argentine armed forces who were in active duty during the country’s last military dictatorship, some of whom were under house arrest. After three months of ...

The split within Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party took a violent turn in October, amid an extended campaign of blockades by supporters of former president Evo Morales. The blockades ...

Marcelo Pérez Pérez knew that his enemies wanted him dead. The priest in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, had been receiving threats for a decade, thanks to his work of constantly decrying ...

At the reproductive healthcare center Morada Violeta in Mexico City, midwives are seen as defenders of women and gender expansive people’s rights and autonomy. They offer personalized and politicized ...

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the collective scapegoating and mass deportation of Haitians for political gain lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Bertin M ...

“We have to extinguish the issue before it goes out of control,” says Lieutenant Colonel Medardo Reyes Pego as he walks the narrow halls of Honduras’ headquarters for military intelligence. He’s about ...

When I started my college education in Peru in the late 1990s, a professor who had spent his early youth as a committed “card-carrying” leftist militant shared a seemingly popular old joke: “How do ...

In Colombia's Pato River valley and wider Caguán basin, former combatants are caught in the crosshairs as peacebuilding efforts clash with dissident groups in the struggle to define the region's ...

Leer este artículo en español. Translated from Spanish by Lucas Bricca. The rise of the far right in Peru didn’t happen at the ballot box. After the fall of former President Pedro Castillo in December ...