NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 48, Issue 2 (2016)

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NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 48, Issue 2 (2016)

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Editors' Note

Editorial
Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms
Joshua Frens-String & Alejandro Velasco
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Around the Region

Article
Brazil at the Precipice
With the Workers' Party (PT) under attack and in retreat, Brazil's Left looks for new alternatives.
Sean Purdy
Pages: 107-110
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Showdown in Venezuela
What's at stake in debates about dialogue and negotiation between Chavistas and the opposition in Venezuela?
Steve Ellner
Pages: 111-114
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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People Before Debt
Puerto Ricans confront the island’s debt crisis “from below.”
Marisol LeBrón
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Haiti vs. the “International Community”
In Haiti, movements have emerged to ensure that the investor-friendly slogan “open for business” does not limit struggles for democracy.
Jake Johnston
Pages: 118-122
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Feature Essay

Essay
The Social Geography of Zika in Brazil
Brazil’s Zika epidemic has placed new and added pressure on Brazil’s public health system, but much about the outbreak is very old.
Jeffrey Lesser & Uriel Kitron
Pages: 123-129
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Reports

Report
Violence, Displacement, and Death
A forum on Dawn Paley’s Drug War Capitalism
Christy Thornton, William I. Robinson, John Gibler, Gladys Tzul Tzul & Dawn Paley
Pages: 130-143
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Mexico’s Long Dirty War
The origins of Mexico’s drug wars can be found in the Mexican state’s decades-long attack on popular movements advocating for social and economic justice.
Alexander Aviña
Pages: 144-149
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Border Patrol Capitalism
On the U.S.-Mexico border, the border security industry grows alongside the expanding militarization of the drug wars.
Todd Miller
Pages: 150-156
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Economic Violence in Ciudad Juárez
An annotated conversation with journalist Julián Cardona about the economic history of Juárez—and how understanding that history helps explain the extreme violence experienced there from 2008 to 2012.
Molly Molloy
Pages: 157-166
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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A Flexible War
Despite changing discourses, industries and agencies that have long profited off the drug wars are adapting to find new opportunities.
John Lindsay-Poland
Pages: 167-172
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Capos and Capitalists
An interview with Mexican political analyst Sergio Aguayo about the rise of the drug trade in Mexico.
Fred Rosen
Pages: 173-176
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Car Bombing Drug War History
How the hit Netflix series Narcos echoes the DEA’s version of events, distorting—and commodifying—the rise of Colombia’s drug economy.
Lina Britto
Pages: 177-180
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From the Archives

When NACLA Helped Shutter the U.S. Office of Public Safety
Early Naclista Michael Klare recounts NACLA’s involvement in the movement to end U.S. overseas police assistance in the early 1970s.
Stuart Schrader
Pages: 181-187
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Reflections

Cuba: A Politics from the People?
Reading Charles Tilly in a changing Cuba
Armando Chaguaceda
Pages: 188-190
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Transaction & Transition
Photographing Change in Contemporary Cuba
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Pages: 191-199
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Arts and Reviews

Review
Neomachismo
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Page: 200
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Review
Review of Lesley Gill, A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia
Emma Shaw Crane
Pages: 201-202
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Review of Jeffrey W. Rubin and Vivienne Bennett, eds., Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America's Democracies
Anthony Petros Spanakos & Mishella Salomé Romo
Pages: 203-204
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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Review of Arlene Dávila, El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
Lucia Cantero
Pages: 205-206
Published online: 11 Jul 2016
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