Steven welcomes Alyssa Bowen, a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at the University of North Carolina to the program to talk about her research into the Chile transnational solidarity movements of the 1970s and 1980s. The two chat about Bowen’s article, “”Taking in the Broad Spectrum’: Human Rights and Anti-Politics Read more…
Change is on the horizon in Uruguay. On 1 March 2020, the new center-right coalition led by National Party leader Luis Lacalle Pou took over the country’s reigns, bringing an end to a decade and half of government by the center-left Broad Front party. The day also marked the thirty-fifth Read more…
SECOLAS is delighted to announce its latest digital media project Discurso: https://discursorevista.com/ The idea is to offer a text-based rich media user experience in which scholars of Latin America explore a wide array of issues, ranging from the interaction between society and the state to how this relationship is rendered Read more…
Dr. Alison Bruey, an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Florida, joined Steven to discuss her book Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2018, which won the 2019 Alfred B. Read more…