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}
{"title":"On Emerging British-Latinx Art: The Case of Art Ubicua","authors":"Clara Garavelli","doi":"10.1111/blar.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The historicisation of Latinx art has been consolidated as a field of study in the United States. While categorising art by specific communities or geographic regions can sometimes marginalise artists, such classifications have also opened up opportunities in spaces that might otherwise remain exclusive and inaccessible. This paper examines the applicability of the term ‘British Latinx Art’ to describe works produced by UK-based and UK-born artists of Latin American heritage, with particular focus on the case of <i>Art Ubicua</i>. In doing so, it seeks to shed light on the evolving history of Latin American art in the United Kingdom and contribute to ongoing efforts to challenge dominant epistemologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145845901","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":"Carnival and Revolt: The Political Ambivalence of the 2019 Chilean Estallido","authors":"Pablo Ortúzar Madrid","doi":"10.1111/blar.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this article, I will argue that the perspective of ritual and festive violence related to events such as carnivals, masquerades, or <i>fiestas</i>, needs to be considered alongside economic, structural, and demographic explanations to understand better the phenomenon of social revolts and riots in general, and the Chilean <i>estallido social</i> (social outburst) of 2019 in particular. I propose that only by doing so can we explain the ambiguity of these situations and their varied, often surprising, and complex political outcomes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145848368","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":"Laura León Llerena. By Reading the Illegible. Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes, Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2003. 264 pp. £54.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8165-4753-1","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/blar.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"383-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204791","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: Uneven Participation: Rethinking Democracy in Southern Cone Cities","authors":"Sam Halvorsen, Sebastián Mauro","doi":"10.1111/blar.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145842999","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":"Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America (1900–1950). By Joanna Crow, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xiv + 371 pp. £89.99 (hardcover), £89.99 (paperback), ISBN-10: 3031019512, ISBN-13: 978-3031019517","authors":"Andrea Román-Alfaro","doi":"10.1111/blar.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"387-388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204756","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":"Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Louis A. Perez, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp. £90.00 (hardcover); £16.51 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1478032007","authors":"Oscar de la Torre","doi":"10.1111/blar.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"389-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204832","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":"Food Studies in Latin American Literatures. Perspectives on the Gastronarrative. By Rocío Del Águila and Vanessa Miseres (eds.), Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021. xill + 500 pp. £19.78 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-68226-181-1","authors":"Andrea Cadelo","doi":"10.1111/blar.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"381-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204831","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}