{"title":"Chile 50 Years Later A Special Dossier","authors":"Juan Poblete","doi":"10.1111/blar.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176417","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 Rise of New Personal Parties in Latin America","authors":"Gerardo Scherlis","doi":"10.1111/blar.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article contributes to the understanding of contemporary party politics in Latin America by measuring and analysing the electoral victories of new parties since the third wave of democratisation. Drawing on an original dataset of democratic presidential elections from 1980 to 2024, the study reveals that, beginning in 2015, there has been an unprecedented surge in presidential elections won by newly created parties. The article advances a twofold explanation for this phenomenon: the decline of the remaining traditional parties and the unsustainable nature of the new parties that have secured electoral victories in recent years. Together, these processes have generated a cumulative dynamic through which personal short-lived parties increasingly come to dominate Latin American elections.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176301","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":"‘Our Government Is Bureaucratic but More Legitimate’ an Exploration Into the Complexities of Institutional Hybridity in Charagua-Bolivia","authors":"Jimena Avejera Udaeta","doi":"10.1111/blar.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Institutions are the formal and informal rules that govern social, political, and economic life. In post-colonial contexts, indigenous/local institutions coexist and evolve alongside liberal-imported ones, sometimes gaining formal recognition and leading to institutional hybridity. This article aims to examine how liberal and hybrid formal institutions differ in their rules for leadership selection and decision-making, and to explore the practical implications of hybridity in terms of bureaucracy and legitimacy. The research reveals that hybrids are intricate systems that accommodate dual normative frameworks, adding procedural layers, timelines, and administrative requirements. Yet, while being more complex and bureaucratic, they are also more legitimate.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176300","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":"Neither Cuñado nor Cuñadazgo: A Guaraní History of Spanish Colonisation","authors":"Guillaume Candela","doi":"10.1111/blar.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the complex relationships between Spaniards and Guaraní peoples in the Río de la Plata province during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It challenges prevailing historiographical narratives regarding a purportedly “harmonious miscegenation” and questions the characterisation of Spanish colonisation in Paraguay as founded upon kinship relations between Spaniards and Guaraní. Through rigorous archival analysis, the study demonstrates that colonial documentation reveals profoundly asymmetric power relations regulated through slavery, servitude, and sexual violence. The research critically evaluates the deployment of the Spanish term “brother-in-law” (<i>cuñado</i>) in translating Guaraní concepts, determining that this terminology indicated colonial domination rather than genuine kinship bonds. The analysis recovers Indigenous voices expressing resistance to Spanish control whilst genealogical reconstruction of a Guaraní family illuminates the devastating effects of colonisation. This article proposes new methodological approaches for understanding the contributions of Indigenous history and colonial practices affecting Indigenous peoples.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002028","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":"Is Latin America a Region for Green Parties? Factors Behind Their Presence and Performance","authors":"Nevio Moreschi, Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez","doi":"10.1111/blar.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research addresses the imbalance between the predominantly European-focused literature on Green Parties and the limited scholarly attention devoted to Latin America. It does so by mapping the current landscape of the Green party family in the region and the applicability of established theoretical frameworks. The study identifies the key factors influencing votes for Green Parties through Logistic Models on a dataset of 150 competitive elections across 15 Latin American countries (1985–2024). The findings reveal that the determinants of Green Party success in Latin America largely parallel those observed in Western contexts, with socioeconomic factors being associated with Green Parties' presence and decentralisation with electoral performances.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983654","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":"Digital Rhetoric and Identity Politics in Associations of Returning Migrants to Mexico","authors":"Rubria Rocha de Luna","doi":"10.1111/blar.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how Mexican deportees and returnees construct collective identity through digital platforms. Analysing Facebook pages of groups such as <i>Otros Dreams en Acción</i> and <i>Dream in Mexico</i>, it explores the strategic use of terms like ‘dreamers’, <i>deportados</i> and <i>retornados</i> to resist stigma and reshape public discourse. Employing rhetorical theory, particularly ideographs and counter-ideographs, the study demonstrates how digital rhetoric facilitates digital identity politics and activism. A text-mining analysis reveals evolving terminology and highlights how these online communities challenge dominant narratives, advocate for recognition and influence public policy in both the United States and Mexico.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145904660","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":"What Should a Peasant Do With Their Palm Fruit? A Moral Economy of Peasant Oil Palm Contract Farming in Colombia","authors":"Joseph Martinez Salinas","doi":"10.1111/blar.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Studies about oil palm production in Latin America have highlighted its negative impacts on peasant communities and the resistance these communities have offered. This article suggests that peasant identities also make part of the moral economies of extractivism. I analyze the conflict derived from peasant producers' side-selling engagement in an oil palm contract scheme in Colombia, where peasants' resistance and the company's efforts to encourage compliance with the contract terms deploy competing interpretations of historically formed black peasant identities and obligations. This demonstrates that peasant identities configure a contested field that both sustains extractivist economies and enables communities to oppose them.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845793","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}
Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig
{"title":"Nicaragua: The Construction of a Patrimonial and Repressive Regime","authors":"Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig","doi":"10.1111/blar.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>At the beginning of the 21st century Nicaragua was a weak liberal democratic regime that held free and competitive elections. Since Daniel Ortega came to power in 2006, a process of de-democratisation has been taking place in which the regime increasingly resembles a traditional <i>caudillismo</i>, where the head of state controls the state administration, the election machinery, the courts and oversees and arbitrates business. However, from 2018 onwards the political system has been sealed off and transformed into an authoritarian one that combines elements of a hereditary and family-based nature, rooted in personal loyalty and <i>caudillismo</i>, with others of a more repressive nature where dissent is persecuted and punished with imprisonment and exile.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845926","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":"‘Yesterday There, Here Today, Tomorrow… Who Knows’: Guatemalan Refugees and Land Conflicts in La Trinitaria, Chiapas, 1981–1999","authors":"Joel Pérez Mendoza","doi":"10.1111/blar.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the early 1980s, thousands of Guatemalans crossed the southern border of Mexico in search of refuge fleeing the massacres perpetrated by the army of their country. As they reached the border municipalities of Chiapas, they created more than a hundred refugee camps there. This article analyses the case of the camps that were built on properties purchased by the Catholic Church in the municipality of La Trinitaria, relying on archival sources and interviews, it reconstructs the tensions that occurred between the refugees and the local population as these two sectors shared land, water and firewood.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145852647","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":"Interrupted Terms, Frustrated Careers? The Political Continuity of Cabinet Ministers Affected by Presidential Interruptions","authors":"Mélany Barragán Manjón, Gonzalo Pardo Beneyto","doi":"10.1111/blar.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research explores the political fates of Latin American cabinet ministers who served in a government interrupted by crisis. Although the fall of a sitting president means the end of a particular cabinet, the political careers of its members need not perish. Through a classification of career models and C-means cluster analysis, this study considers numerous factors that may influence the political survival of ministers following a crisis at State level. The results indicate differences based on such variables as expertise, party ties, and specialisation, indicating that certain profiles show a greater capacity for remaining in politics. A work methodology is proposed by which to classify career trajectories, and empirical evidence is produced on a topic scarcely explored in the relevant literature, offering new perspectives on political resilience in contexts of instability.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145852633","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}