Por Armando Boito Jr.: [excerpt] “A frente neodesenvolvimentista é a frente política integrada por classes e frações de classe muito heterogêneas que sustentou os governos Lula da Silva e que, agora, sustenta o governo Dilma. Essa frente representa prioritariamente os interesses de um setor importante da burguesia brasileira que é a grande burguesia interna. Essa [...]
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Cooperativización: algunas aproximaciones a las relaciones actuales entre Estado capitalista y sectores subalternos
February 15, 2012
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Por Mariana Giaretto: “El análisis de las relaciones entre Estado y clases subalternas a partir de experiencias concretas de tomas de tierras urbanas nos ha permitido identificar a la cooperativización como un proceso en el que se entrelazan complejamente tanto mecanismos estatales de dispersión del conflicto social como estrategias de subsistencia de los sectores populares.” [...]
Read more Mucho ciberactivismo… pocos votos: Antanas Mockus y el Partido Verde colombiano
October 19, 2011
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Por Omár Rincon: [ABSTRACT] El ex-alcalde de Bogotá Antanas Mockus y su «ola verde» constituyeron un auténtico caso de ciberactivismo en la campaña presidencial colombiana de 2010. Una ilusión democrática creada en internet convocó a jóvenes y ciudadanos sofisticados a cambiar un país sobre la base de la promesa de legalidad, pero la historia terminó [...]
Read more Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism: Urban Political Economy in Latin America
April 20, 2011
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By Benjamin Goldfrank and Andrew Schrank: The following article identifies two different urban policy regimes in Latin America — neoliberal and socialist—and traces their origins to the distinct interests and capacities of local elites and activists in the region’s cities in the mid-to-late twentieth century. While agricultural and commercial interests paid a high price for [...]
Read more From petista way to Brazilian way: How the PT changes in the road
April 20, 2011
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By Benjamin Goldfrank and Brian Wampler: When Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva won Brazil’s presidency in 2002, he and his Workers’ Party (PT) had most observers convinced that this was a watershed moment for the country’s democracy. After all, the PT had built a reputation for over twenty years for good government and ethics in [...]
Read more Lula’s Brazil
April 14, 2011
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By Perry Anderson: “Material betterment is not social empowerment” (…) From the start, Lula had been committed to helping the poor. Accommodation of the rich and powerful would be necessary, but misery had to be tackled more seriously than in the past. His first attempt, a Zero Hunger scheme to assure minimum sustenance to every [...]
Read more Civil Society and State-Building in Latin America
March 23, 2011
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By Rebecca Abers and Margareth Keck: In this essay we will suggest that significant barriers to deepening democracy in much of Latin America include not just the weakness of civil society vis-à-vis the state, but also the weakness of the state itself vis-à-vis its public administrative, technical, and enforcement functions. This is not a recent [...]
Read more In the Streets or in the Institutions?
March 23, 2011
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By Jeffrey Rubin: Social movements in Brazil have experienced a unique trajectory: they have grown and flourished during a twenty-year period of discernible and highly uneven democratic deepening. As a result, Brazilian activists face ongoing and urgent questions about the location of politics. Since the mid-1980s, many grassroots activists have opted to move from “the [...]
Read more Las Alas de Leo: La participación ciudadana del siglo XX
March 12, 2011
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By Pedro Prieto Martín: [excerpt] La sostenibilidad es también un aspecto vital de la participación ciudadana. La existencia de lo que en el apartado II.6.2 denominamos como el “monopolio político-administrativo de la participación” da cuenta de lo difícil que resulta desarrollar fórmulas de participación autónoma que sean realmente auto-sostenibles. Nuestro análisis del OP nos ha mostrado, [...]
Read more Political Competition and the Diffusion of Policy Innovations in Local Government: the Case of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
March 11, 2011
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By Paolo Spada (Yale University – September 2010): (…) “The diffusion of participatory budgeting does not exibit over time the S-shape typical of many technocratic policy innovations. I propose two mechanisms that explain the unusual diffusion of participatory budgeting in the Brazilian case. The first posits that participatory budgeting is adopted by mayors looking to [...]
Read more The humanitarian myth
January 31, 2010
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By Richard Seymour Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. By this Sunday, a total of more than 20,000 U.S. troops were scheduled to be operating in Haiti, both on land [...]
Read more Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America
September 21, 2009
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By Lucy Taylor Read full article at Bulletin of Latin American Research (…) Despite such critiques, many people in many ways are becoming more like citizens. They are more certain of their value as individuals in relation to others who are richer and more powerful, and they are better aware of their rights (because the [...]
Read more Militarizing Latin America
September 9, 2009
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By Noam Chomsky: The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in the words of George Washington. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture. From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal. Latin America has retained its primacy in U.S. global planning. If the United States [...]
Read more PUBLIC NOTE ON ELTON BRUM’S MURDER FOR THE MILITARY POLICE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL – BRAZIL – August 21, 2009
August 24, 2009
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MST releases photo and public note to society: The Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) comes to public to manifest his grief again for the loss of companheiro Elton Brum loss, to manifest solidarity to the family and for: 1. To denounce one more harsh and violent action of [...]
Read more Le Brésil, ce géant entravé
August 19, 2009
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Un modèle menacé para la dépendance finacière English version here Par Renaud Lambert: En Equateur, grâce à une politique qu’il qualifie de « sociale et solidaire », et qui renforce le rôle de l’Etat, M. Rafael Correa a été réélu dès le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle du 26 avril. Au Panamá, le 3 mai, après le mandat décevant en [...]
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