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  • 10.1177/0094582x251409188
Book Review: Venezuela: Grassroot Change and Global Pressures GilbertChrisCommune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023.ParampilAnyaCorporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire. New York: OR Books, 2024.MarquinaCira PascualGilbertChrisVenezuela: The Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020.
  • Jan 3, 2026
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Steve Ellner

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251389502
Transmodern Geographies and Coloniality: On Enrique Dussel’s Pluriversal Modernity
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Don Thomas Deere

This essay offers a critical reading of the work of Enrique Dussel on the colonial history of modernity and the possibility of a plural trans-modern future. Dussel’s transmodernity points to a plural vision of global modernity, opening multiple possible modes of being and thinking. I critically analyze Dussel’s concept of the periphery and the “other” of colonial history, arguing for the importance of a materialist and non-absolute vision of the other. I consider the possibilities of dialogue in a transmodern framework in the wake of the battlefield of colonization. Emphasizing South-South and North-South dialogues, I argue for a plural vision that engages both rational-epistemic practices and creative passions that are not strictly epistemic. En este texto, analizo críticamente la obra de Enrique Dussel sobre la historia colonial de la modernidad y defiendo la posibilidad de un futuro transmoderno plural. La transmodernidad de Dussel apunta a una visión plural de la modernidad global, abriendo múltiples modos posibles de ser y de pensar. Analizo críticamente el concepto de Dussel de la periferia y del “otro” de la historia colonial, argumento por la importancia de una visión materialista y no absoluta del otro. A partir de esto, considero las posibilidades del diálogo en un marco transmoderno sobre el trasfondo de la colonización. Al enfatizar los diálogos Sur-Sur y Norte-Sur, defiendo una visión plural que comprometa tanto las prácticas racional-epistémicas como las pasiones creativas que no son estrictamente epistémicas.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251395610
Super-Exploitation of Labor and Decent Work: An Analysis on the Working Day in Mexico and Chile
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Pedro Henrique Evangelista Duarte

Based on the debate proposed by Ruy Mauro Marini in the Marxist theory of dependency, this paper examines the category of “super-exploitation of labor,” focusing on one of its key mechanisms: the tendency to extend working time. The paper discusses the experience of two countries – Mexico and Chile – to show how advances in the capitalist mode of production, particularly following the implementation of the neoliberal agenda, have affected working time. It also aims to demonstrate how this theoretical approach contributes to the debate on decent work within the context of changing social and labor relations. Con base en el debate planteado por Ruy Mauro Marini en el marco de la teoría marxista de la dependencia, este artículo examina la categoría de la “superexplotación del trabajo”, centrándose en uno de sus mecanismos fundamentales: la tendencia a la ampliación de la jornada laboral. El análisis aborda las experiencias de dos países —México y Chile— con el propósito de mostrar cómo los avances del modo de producción capitalista, en particular tras la implementación de la agenda neoliberal, han incidido en la duración del tiempo de trabajo. Asimismo, busca demostrar de qué manera este enfoque teórico contribuye al debate sobre el trabajo decente, en el marco de las transformaciones contemporáneas de las relaciones sociales y laborales.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251395605
Remembering Indigenous Genocide Indigenous Land Rights Advocacy in El Salvador
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Hector M Callejas

Indigenous movements in Latin America advocate for the collective rights of Indigenous communities to land, territory, and natural resources. This article shows how the production and mobilization of Indigenous genocide memory during the 2010s revealed the limits of Indigenous land rights advocacy in El Salvador. Since the late 19 th century, settler state authorities have facilitated Indigenous dispossession for the development of agro-extractivism across the national territory. In recent decades, the Salvadoran Indigenous movement has reframed a peasant massacre in 1932 as an Indigenous genocide to demand state reparations for Indigenous landlessness. In 2019, the Jaguar Sonriente network organized a commemoration and court case on the genocide to explore the possibilities for reparations within the national judicial system. The still-pending case status foregrounds the inefficacy of using rights-based discourses to challenge the state formation of Indigenous dispossession in El Salvador and beyond. Los movimientos indígenas en América Latina reivindican los derechos colectivos de los pueblos originarios sobre la tierra, el territorio y los recursos naturales. Este artículo demuestra cómo la producción y movilización de la memoria del genocidio indígena durante la década de 2010 reveló los límites de la defensa de los derechos territoriales indígenas en El Salvador. Desde finales del siglo XIX, las autoridades del Estado colonizador han facilitado la desposesión indígena para el desarrollo del agro-extractivismo en todo el territorio nacional. En las últimas décadas, el movimiento indígena salvadoreño ha reinterpretado la masacre campesina de 1932 como un genocidio indígena con el fin de exigir reparaciones estatales por la falta de acceso a la tierra. En 2019, la red Jaguar Sonriente organizó una conmemoración y una demanda judicial sobre el genocidio para explorar las posibilidades de obtener reparaciones dentro del sistema judicial nacional. El estatus aún pendiente del caso pone de relieve la ineficacia de emplear discursos basados en derechos para impugnar las formas estatales de desposesión indígena en El Salvador y más allá.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251392486
Dictatorship and Repressed Sexuality in Lemebel and Rivas’ “Blokes”
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Arcadio Bolaños

This article explores the intersections between dictatorial regimes and individualized forms of repression, mainly in the area of sexuality. By comparing “Blokes,” a short story by Chilean LGBTQ+ writer and activist Pedro Lemebel, with its film adaptation (directed by Marialy Rivas), I will analyze the political climate in Chile during Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990) and the way it affected everyday life. The protagonist, a teenager, is doubly censored and reprimanded due to his rejection of the heterosexual normative. In dictatorial regimes, repression is always present, pertaining not only to political and ideological spheres, but also to more intimate and private spaces. The article sheds light on some of the restrictions suffered by the protagonist, how those restrictions are interiorized by him and how he tries to restrict others, following in a way the notion that violence begets violence (authoritarianism begets authoritarianism).

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251394688
Plurinationalism in Question: Latin American Perspectives and Contributions
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Ariel Sribman Mittelman + 1 more

In parallel with the reformulation of constitutions and re-definitions of nationhood, plurinationalism became a dominating theme in early 21 st century Latin America. Considering the increasing relevance of this concept in Latin America and beyond, the aim of this study is 1) to explore the origin of the term “plurinationalism” and its forebearers, within and outside Latin America; 2) to identify varieties of plurinationalism in order to point out the Latin American contributions to this field. The starting point of our study is that the concept of plurinationalism is neither an invention of the late 20th century nor a concept originated in Latin America. Our analysis begins with an outline of European precedents of plurinationalism, and then turn to a brief recount of the precedents in the American continent. We then address the emergence of plurinationalism in Latin America in the 1980s, and analyze its evolution through the examples of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile. En paralelo con la reformulación de las constituciones y las redefiniciones de la nación, el plurinacionalismo se convirtió en un tema dominante en la América Latina de comienzos del siglo XXI. Considerando la creciente relevancia de este concepto en América Latina y más allá, el objetivo de este estudio es: 1) explorar el origen del término “plurinacionalismo” y sus antecedentes, tanto dentro como fuera de América Latina; 2) identificar las distintas variedades de plurinacionalismo con el fin de resaltar las contribuciones latinoamericanas en este campo. El punto de partida de nuestro estudio es que el concepto de plurinacionalismo no es una invención de finales del siglo XX ni un concepto originado en América Latina. Nuestro análisis comienza con un esbozo de los precedentes europeos del plurinacionalismo y luego pasa a un breve recuento de los antecedentes en el continente americano. A continuación, abordamos la emergencia del plurinacionalismo en América Latina en la década de 1980 y analizamos su evolución a través de los ejemplos de Bolivia, Ecuador y Chile.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251392833
Coloniality in Action: The Enduring Significance of Empire in United States-Latin America Human Rights Policy
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Ángela E Fillingim

This paper uses a distinct theoretical orientation, the coloniality paradigm, to examine logics that structured US Cold War engagements in Latin America. To illustrate the analytical utility of the coloniality paradigm, I apply this paradigm to an examination of US human rights policy toward Latin America. Dominant scholarship finds that the specter of communism dominated US policy, despite major human rights concerns. Based on content analysis of 167 hearings on human rights and US human rights policy in Argentina (1976–1983) and El Salvador (1980–1992), I show that elite US political actors used human rights to reaffirm racial orders grounded in colonial and Euro-American knowledge. US-based actors relied on spectrums of race rooted in colonial racial structures and imperial expansion—uncivilized/civilized, primitive/progress—to assess the human rights situation in Latin America and map three racial positions in the Americas. The use of coloniality to reexamine US Cold War policy toward Latin America highlights the racial logics that were covertly articulated through policy. Contrasting the potential of human rights with its limits creates decolonial knowledge that has the power to expand our knowledge and challenge our practices. Este artículo adopta una orientación teórica particular —el paradigma de la colonialidad— para examinar las lógicas que estructuraron las intervenciones de Estados Unidos en América Latina durante la Guerra Fría. A fin de demostrar la utilidad analítica del paradigma de la colonialidad, lo aplico al estudio de la política estadounidense de derechos humanos hacia la región. La literatura dominante sostiene que el espectro del comunismo prevaleció en la formulación de la política de Washington, a pesar de las graves preocupaciones en materia de derechos humanos. A partir de un análisis de contenido de 167 audiencias sobre los derechos humanos y la política estadounidense hacia Argentina (1976–1983) y El Salvador (1980–1992), demuestro que los actores políticos estadounidenses utilizaron el discurso de los derechos humanos para reafirmar órdenes raciales arraigados en saberes coloniales y euro-americanos. Estos actores recurrieron a gradaciones raciales fundadas en estructuras coloniales de raza y en la expansión imperial —incivilizado/civilizado, primitivo/progreso— para evaluar la situación de derechos humanos en América Latina y trazar tres posiciones raciales en el continente. El uso del paradigma de la colonialidad para reexaminar la política estadounidense durante la Guerra Fría revela las lógicas raciales que se articularon de manera encubierta a través de dicha política. Contrastar el potencial de los derechos humanos con sus límites produce un conocimiento decolonial capaz de ampliar nuestra comprensión y cuestionar nuestras prácticas.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251392487
Worlding Peacebuilding: Revisiting the Issue of Violence in Colombia’s San José de Apartadó Peace Community
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Rafaela Cristina Silva De Souza + 1 more

The ideas of peace and peacebuilding seem to be universal and uncontroversial. However, the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreements has evidenced that this is not so, and that there are many ideas of peace and of how to build peace at the community level. This article aims to understand how the Peace Community of Apartadó perceives and experiences the Havana Peace Agreements, considering the ongoing violence and political exclusion of ethnic minorities and peasant populations in the territory. We will map out the main obstacles for the implementation of the Agreements, as well as the debate over how the community has mobilized to overcome violence and build peace within the territory. Through the analysis of everyday practices and the community’s discourse, we argue that there are processes that precede and go beyond the Havana Agreements, and that the community’s understanding of the conflict, as well as its daily peace-building practices, based on their knowledge and notions of land tenure, work and food sovereignty, are important sources of knowledge for constructing long-lasting peace models.

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251398560
On Coloniality and Decoloniality: In the Memory of Aníbal Quijano (1928-2018)
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Richard L Harris

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  • 10.1177/0094582x251389501
Book Review: Mobilizing the Peasantry Around the World EdelmanMarcPeasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.
  • Nov 1, 2025
  • Latin American Perspectives
  • Paige Elizabeth Price + 5 more