{"title":"Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?","authors":"Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single-party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio-economic decline are bringing about some political changes. Within a peculiar autocratic continuity since the Cuban Revolution, the presidency of Miguel Díaz-Canel corresponds to some characteristics of new authoritarianism which will be examined in this article, focusing on the idea of three intra-autocratic transitions: (1) from an authoritarian revolutionary regime to totalitarianism, (2) from totalitarian to post-totalitarianism and (3) towards new authoritarianism that preserves some features of the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nahua: Language and Culture From the Sixteenth Century to the Present. By Galen Brokaw and Pablo García Loaeza, Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2024. xiv +297 pp. $32.95 (paperback). $29.95 ebook, ISBN: 9781646425785 (paperback), 9781646425792 (ebook)","authors":"Caroline Egan","doi":"10.1111/blar.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey. By Robert C. Bradley, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. xii + 279 pp. £18.9 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0806192789","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/blar.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Border Reader. By Gilberto Rosas, and Mireya Loza, Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. xi +691 pp. £123.00 (hardcover), £31.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5","authors":"Jason Ahlenius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands. By Pérez Montesinos Fernando, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. x+316 pp. £39.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781477331002","authors":"Jason Ahlenius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Special Section ‘Latinx Studies in the UK: Reflections on a Field in the Making’","authors":"Clara Garavelli, Emma Staniland","doi":"10.1111/blar.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This Introduction to the edited Special Section by Clara Garavelli and Emma Staniland offers a rationale for the first coordinated scholarly intervention dedicated to Latinx Studies in the United Kingdom and provides a summary of the five articles that comprise the collection.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Revolutionary Encounters in the Cold War: Carlos María Gutiérrez and the Socialist Dialogue Between Latin America and China’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/blar.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researching Crime and Violence in Medellín, Colombia: Truth Versus Truths. By Caroline Doyle, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024. xiii +192 pp. £77.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781666914146","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1111/blar.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutionalised Indigeneity, State Formation and Crisis: Lessons From the Indio Institucionalizado in Evo Morales' Bolivia","authors":"Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Angus McNelly","doi":"10.1111/blar.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the institutionalisation of indigeneity in Bolivia under the governments of Evo Morales (2006–2019) as a central component of the MAS project of crafting state hegemony. We trace the emergence of what we call the <i>indio institucionalizado</i> from the social mobilisations of the 1990s and 2000s through the Constitutional Assembly and the consolidation and fall of Morales and the MAS. We argue that this state-sanctioned form of indigeneity was crucial to the MAS's efforts to incorporate, channel and domesticate indigenous political autonomy, while also illuminating elements of the crisis that engulfed the end of Morales's presidency and the MAS as the intended political instrument of social movements. More broadly, the article demonstrates how indigeneity operates as a terrain of struggle and as a key subjectivity in processes of state transformation and hegemonic construction.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer/Cuir Moments and ‘Que(e)rencias’ in Colombian Narrative Cinema","authors":"Javier Pérez-Osorio, Karol Valderrama-Burgos","doi":"10.1111/blar.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article recognises the notable absence of queerness in narrative cinema made in Colombia, while surveying how feature films have offered types of LGBTIQ+ representations that have been entangled with debatable, inconsistent or, more recently, with exceptional discourses. Informed by multidisciplinary approaches from queer/<i>cuir</i> studies, film studies and decolonial thought, this text seeks to provide the readership with a useful state of affairs as of today on how queerness is addressed through narrative cinema in Colombia, and to continually problematise and rethink what ‘queer’ means within the Colombian and Latin American contexts. By tracing the available corpus, the article exposes what we have chosen to name ‘queer/<i>cuir</i> moments,’ acknowledging there is still much to be done within the film industry to be able to suggest a robust queer/cuir strand. Nonetheless, the article also acknowledges how those moments have preceded a more recent era of self-aware filmmakers that put forward LGBTIQ+ questions on the big screen in the Colombian context. The 21st-century initiatives the article considers have paved the way for ‘que(e)rencias’—political acts of affection, enunciation and intervention—where queerness seemingly activates an unexplored prism via narrative films made in Colombia.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}