From The Nation, Patrick Iber reviews Cuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan C. Brown and Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History by Dirk Kruijt. What is Cuba’s post-Castro future? The Maduro government may well continue applying the Cuban method of control through scarcity, but it cannot rule out the possibility that the population’s increasing hunger and illness will lead to a social eruption of enormous proportions. Nicolas Maduro’s accelerating revolution: Venezuela’s president has outmaneuvered his opponents — can he survive an economy in free fall? Evo Morales’s new allies are political alliances, and they lack the revolutionary fervor of his old ones.
Wendy Wolford and Sergio Sauer on authoritarian elitism and popular movements in Brazil. Chayenne Polimedio on the rise of the Brazilian evangelicals. Mexico’s new security law: Alessandro Zagato on a new chapter in the militarization of the Mexican state. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is hardly the demagogue of his critics’ imaginations, so the more relevant question is: If he becomes Mexico’s next president, will he actually bring the changes the country needs? Colombia is ready to join the club: The United States should help its Latin American ally become a member of the OECD.
America vs. China, Russia and Iran in Latin America: Who wins? “World upside down”: As Trump pushes tariffs, Latin America links up.
