NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 55, Issue 4 (2023)

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Militarized Democracy Refracted

EDITOR’S NOTE

Editorial
Militarism Matters
Dawn Marie Paley
Pages: 337-339
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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AROUND THE REGION

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Guatemala’s Indigenous-Led National Strike Rejects Authoritarianism
As an anti-democratic mafia stages a judicial coup to block the president-elect from taking office, a grassroots uprising fights to defend popular sovereignty
Vaclav Masek
Pages: 340-344
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Circulations and Solidarities in the Darién
As thousands cross the perilous jungle gap linking Colombia to Central America every day, one Panamanian border town is transformed by the multiple lives and competing interests that intersect on the migrant trail.
Soledad Álvarez Velasco & Cristina Cielo
Pages: 345-349
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Government Reforms Face Corporate Backlash in Honduras
As President Xiomara Castro’s administration works to mitigate the fallout of the post-coup years, transnational companies are lining up to sue the state for lost profits.
Karen Spring
Pages: 350-354
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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REPORT

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Venezuela’s War of All People
Under the Bolivarian revolution, militarization has permeated all facets of politics and society, capturing institutional power as the ambit of the Armed Forces repeatedly expands.
Pablo Uchoa
Pages: 355-362
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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The Shifting Loyalties of Military Power in Bolivia
Bolivia’s Armed Forces perpetually adapt to the whims of the ruling party. Political refusal to change military structures is fundamentally at odds with the plurinational project.
Loreta Tellería Escobar
Pages: 363-369
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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The Myth of Demilitarization in Costa Rica
Following the abolition of the Army, narratives celebrating Central America’s most peaceful nation have masked a militarized policing model shaped by U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency.
Markus Hochmüller & Markus-Michael Müller
Pages: 370-376
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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El Salvador’s Misogynistic Security State
Sexual violence is baked into Salvadoran state forces. Ever more militarized crackdowns on gangs offer further cover for police and soldiers to commit gendered abuses with impunity.
Elizabeth G. Kennedy
Pages: 377-383
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Haiti’s Foreign Intervention Quagmire
United Nations missions have occupied Haiti for three decades. A new international armed force now claims to tackle the political crises and armed gangs that foreign interference helped create.
Djems Olivier
Pages: 384-391
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Paper Ammo: Archives of Left Resistance
A collection of Puerto Rican and Latin American political propaganda offers a window into the creative resistance against U.S.-backed militarization of decades past.
Gilberto Arias González
Pages: 392-397
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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How the People of Vieques Evicted the U.S. Navy
A Puerto Rican demilitarization activist reflects on the decades-long struggle to urge U.S. forces to withdraw from the island and the ongoing challenges Viequenses face today.
Diana Ramos-Gutiérrez & Myrna Pagán
Pages: 398-402
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Nobody’s Safe When the Military Is in Charge
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given carte blanche to the military, which now enjoys greater power, bigger budgets, and control over infrastructure. Mexican feminists are fighting back.
Dawn Marie Paley
Pages: 403-408
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Nearshoring and the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border
As corporate boosters push to shift supply chains from China to northern Mexico, military expansion in the borderlands secures manufacturing zones for transnational capital.
Nina Ebner & Gabriel Antonio Solis
Pages: 409-416
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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The Multiple Faces of Militarization
From protecting extractive projects in rural territories to enabling paramilitary control in cities, military power serves to drive accumulation by dispossession.
Raúl Zibechi
Pages: 417-423
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Colombia’s Military Doctrine Finally Faces Scrutiny
Armed conflict in Colombia has changed dramatically since the peak of the civil war more than two decades ago. The government’s security strategy may at last be catching up.
Joshua Collins
Pages: 424-429
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Military Legal Power, Unchecked
Across Latin America, the militarization of public security and judicial systems threatens to deepen repression and impunity. Can civilian courts rein in military justice once and for all?
Brett J. Kyle & Andrew G. Reiter
Pages: 430-436
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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FEATURE ESSAY

Essay
The Instruction: How the López Obrador Administration Blew Up the Ayotzinapa Investigation
Mexico’s president promised to finally deliver truth and justice for the 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor reveals how the administration derailed the case and sided with the Army instead.
John Gibler
Pages: 437-447
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

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Militarized Democracy in the Americas: Faces of Law and Order
This article appeared as the introduction to the November/December 1998 issue of the NACLA Report.
Nacla Editors
Pages: 448-449
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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ARTS AND REVIEWS

Review Article
Robert Rabin
Fortín Conde de Mirasol
Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Pages: 450-451
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Review of Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
João Feres Júnior
Pages: 452-454
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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IN MEMORIAM

Obituary
Fred Rosen, Presente!
Deidre McFadyen
Pages: 455-457
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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