NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 48, Issue 3 (2016)

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NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 48, Issue 3 (2016)

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Editors’ Note

Introduction
Free Trade 2.0
Joshua Frens-String & Alejandro Velasco
Pages: 207-208
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Around the Region

Article
El Salvador’s Elusive Peace
Twenty-five years after a U.N.-backed peace deal ended El Salvador’s civil war, violence persists. Can a political economy of peace stop the spiral?
Joaquín M. Chávez
Pages: 209-212
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Organizing Resistance in Honduras
A diverse coalition of social movements continues to resist the imposition of violent neoliberalism, seven years after a coup d’etat removed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya from power.
Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda
Pages: 213-216
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Brazil’s Neoconservative Offensive
How right-wing forces coopted and redirected popular discontent in Brazil to oust democratically elected president Dilma Rousseff
Alexandre Fortes
Pages: 217-220
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Feature Essay

Article
Amanecer Latin@
Latin@ voters stand poised to reshape the U.S. electoral map in the wake of Donald Trump’s racist presidential campaign.
Anna Sampaio
Pages: 221-228
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Paving the Way to the Pacific: From NAFTA to the TPP
For workers and the poor, NAFTA has left a trail of pain and false promises. The next round of free trade agreements will be worse.
Alejandro Álvarez
Pages: 229-232
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Free Trade’s Chilling Effects
The TPP threatens to extend the most draconian feature of the contemporary free trade model: private corporation’s ability to sue sovereign nations.
Manuel Pérez-Rocha
Pages: 233-238
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A New Alter-Globalization Movement
In 2005, a continent-wide movement stopped the Free Trade Area of the Americas in its tracks. As the TPP moves forward, can history repeat?
Pablo Solón
Pages: 239-241
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Europe Mobilizes Against TTIP
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) seeks to model a new era of free trade. How is Europe resisting?
John Hilary
Pages: 242-244
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This Land Is Ours
In Guatemala, a struggle over land and resources pits transnational mining interests against indigenous communities.
James Rodríguez
Pages: 245-252
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Peace in Colombia: A New Growth Strategy
Colombia’s peace deal is a remarkable achievement, but its economic implications are troubling.
Forrest Hylton & Aaron Tauss
Pages: 253-259
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Cuba After the Gold Rush
What has been the role of U.S. commercial interests in ending the U.S. embargo on Cuba?
Sarah Stephens
Pages: 260-264
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Latin America’s China Boom
Taking stock of China’s growing economic influence in Latin America—and the reforms Latin American states should pursue to avoid a commodity “bust”
Kevin P. Gallagher
Pages: 265-270
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Revolutionary Extraction?
Mapping the political economy of gas, soy, and mineral production in Evo Morales’s Bolivia
Nicole Fabricant & Bret Gustafson
Pages: 271-279
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Ecuador’s Expanding Extractive Frontier
New social movements are challenging the Ecuadorean government’s decision to drill for oil in the Yasuní National Park.
Diana Coryat & Manuela Lavinas Picq
Pages: 280-283
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Latin America’s Commodity Bust? Not Exactly
David Rosnick
Pages: 284-285
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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From the Archives

Terror on Embassy Row, Revisited
Forty years ago, the Pinochet regime’s assassination of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington marked a Cold War watershed.
Alan McPherson
Pages: 286-291
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Arts and Reviews

Review
Re-Producción
Virginia Lucas & Jen Hofer
Pages: 292-293
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Review of Julie M. Weise’s
Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Perla M. Guerrero
Pages: 294-295
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Review of Devyn Spence Benson’s
Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
Michael J. Bustamante
Pages: 296-298
Published online: 19 Sep 2016
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Miscellany

Advert
Page: 299
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New and forthcoming

New and forthcoming
Page: 300
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