Latest issue of The Latin Americanist is out!

Volume 65, Issue 2 is hot off the presses! Check it out: Issue hyperlink: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44820 Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Articles: Greg Weeks, Note from the Outgoing Editor João Batista Nascimento Gregoire, The Poor Need Money – Rethinking Poverty in Brazil’s Post-Military Dictatorship Silvia Borzutzky Read more…

Editorial Board of The Latin Americanist

1. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte2. Stephen Morris, UNAM3. James Wood, North Carolina A&T4. Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas5. Lou Pérez, UNC Chapel Hill6. Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College7. Renee Scherlen, Appalachian State University8. Miriam Jorge, University of Missouri-St. Louis 9. Mark Setzler, High Point University10. Paul Worley, Western Carolina Read more…

TLA article of the week: The United States in El Oro: The OCIAA and the Diplomacy of Emergency Rehabilitation during WWII

The United States in El Oro:The OCIAA and the Diplomacy of Emergency Rehabilitation during WWII In this week’s featured article, Monica Rankin examines the efforts of the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs’ (OCIAA) to rebuild Ecuador’s El Oro province, an already underdeveloped zone further debilitated by Peruvian Read more…