Resource Extractivism in Latin America: Canadian Investments in Mining

Abstract

Latin American Policy invited Laura MacDonald and Pablo Heidrich as guest editors to prepare the core articles for this issue. Both scholars in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, they prepared an excellent collection of eight articles dealing with Canadian mining investments in key countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. We are very grateful to our guest editors and to all of the contributors for their interest in publishing in our journal. We hope our readers find these contributions interesting and attractive for their respective policy making or research. In our Policy Articles section, we also include three contributions from other authors, dealing with microfinance and trade-policy issues in Brazil and with renewable-energy policies in Central America. Finally, readers will find two interesting book reviews in the respective section. Isidro Morales is Editor-in-Chief of Latin American Policy and is a professor at the School of Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey.