Search Results for leftist

...Daniel Masterson Handbook of Leftist Guerrilla Groups in Latin America and the Caribbean . By Gross Liza , in collaboration with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . Boulder : Westview Press , 1995 . Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography . xix , 164 pp. Cloth . $59.95...

...Daniel Aarão Reis From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership . By Kenneth P. Serbin Helen Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2019 . Photographs...

...Laura Gotkowitz Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements . By Becker Marc . Latin America Otherwise . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxv , 303 pp. Paper , $22.95...

..., and an affront to proper revolutionary behavior. This article explores how leftist Brazilians with homoerotic desires negotiated norms of compulsory heterosexuality and constructions of revolutionary masculinity in the 1960s and 1970s as they lived in the underground, among members of different political...

... portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot opposition or even to eliminate the poor. This article analyzes the epistemological contests that surfaced in response...

... intake as the new entitlement of the working classes to what had previously been a “luxury food.” Finally, the analysis demonstrates that Peronism collected and instrumentally continued or redefined key arguments circulating in Argentine popular culture and medical and leftist discourses, including...

... of mutual forgetting reveals much about the subtle but persistent disjuncture between leftist ideology and grassroots political practice that characterized mid-twentieth-century Brazil. Analysts have long bemoaned and explored this disjuncture in the context of Brazil’s labor politics; this article argues...

... of the 1964 coup in Brazil and the 1976 coup in Argentina respectively. I analyze the newspapers’ attitudes toward their country's dictatorship, including their stances on the repression of leftist forces, state censorship, economic policies, and demands for liberalization. The article concludes...

... Alberto Flores Galindo was an intellectual giant whose seminal work, Buscando un Inca: Identidad y utopía en los Andes (1986), helped reshape the field of Peruvian history. Authors Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker trace his influences, contributions, and role as a leftist and a public intellectual...

... past, the academic and nonacademic Left has intensely debated the impact on Latin American leftist strategy of such recent developments as globalization and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With the rise of leftist governments in Latin America, beginning with the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998...

... of domestic and imperial reaction” (p. 145). Here the record of leftist critics is mixed. Some have cavalierly equated progressive governments with neoliberal ones or naively assumed that leftist challengers will benefit if reformist governments fall. The authors note how some Ecuadorean leftists...

... that the ignorant could be easily led astray by leftists. Here he formulated the Freire method of spreading literacy, enlisting enthusiastic, mostly leftist young men and women, but not the regular teachers in the schools, to go to the villages in shock campaigns. Instead of using standard textbooks, he worked up...

... of the contemporary world is the ideological struggle between Materialists, basing their ideas on Marxism-Leninism and favoring social progress, and Idealists, who are frankly enemies of progress. The author’s particular concern about this struggle is that, although Mexican leftists all share the common...

... begins with political socialization and the emergence of a leftist identification, then examines the experience of leftist party members before 1970 and their high expectations of the Allende government at the moment of its inauguration. Chapters covering the “aggressive” and “defensive” phases of la...

... and sharply cut back the state sector. During these challenging years, a commitment to gender equity became a sort of litmus test of leftist political practice in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the Farbundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary...

... against “premature labeling of the regime as ‘leftist’” went unheeded until the post-1968 regime “veered to the right in the mid-seventies.” Those familiar with the historical development of the Peruvian military profession needed no such warning, for they resisted the temptation to succumb to a strictly...

..., and the Left. We need more research that critically assesses the implementation of leftist reforms, including the interaction between national and subnational levels. Future research can test the validity of Hetland's arguments for other cases. [email protected] Democracy on the Ground: Local...

... the ITCR to address both the rapid growth of secondary school graduates and the increase of leftist influence over students at the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), as evidenced by the massive 1970 protests against a contract with the Alcoa Corporation. From its inception the ITCR was a career- and business...

... that President Eleazar López Contreras adroitly safeguarded the nation’s fledgling democracy by keeping the virtually anarchistic MP under control with the necessary dosage of repressive measures. Battaglini also takes issue with the opposite notion, formulated by fellow leftist writers who lament the Left’s...

... of a new president, and the weakening of many reforms. For the next four years, the government struggled to withdraw from power with some dignity intact. Elections were to be held in 1980. Among intellectuals, one of the major tasks during the regime’s initial phase of leftist exuberance was to explain...