El Frente Unido as a Movement of Collective Action in Colombia: Or What Can Camilo Torres Possibly Say to the Peace Negotiations?

By Gustavo Quintero   On February 15, 1966, the Colombian army shot a Catholic priest named Camilo Torres while he was trying to take a rifle away from a soldier he had just killed. ...
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September 27, 2016UncategorizedCamilo Torres, Colombia, Colombian peace accords, FARC, politics of the left

A Brief History of Militarization in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

On August 3rd of 2016, I took a bus with the company Limousines de México north from Ciudad Chihuahua and across the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas. For a white guy with a ...
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September 14, 2016Uncategorizedborderlands, Mexico, militarized policing, Spatial History

Placing Patagonia: Present, Future, Past

In the past year, Patagonia, which spans the southern third of Argentina and Chile, received some unexpected attention. The region has been shaped by vast sheep estancias on its eastern plains, logging in the ...
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July 12, 2016Uncategorizedenvironment, media, Patagonia

Ecuador’s Left in a time of uncertainty

In March of this year, we hosted a roundtable discussion on the “The Receding ‘Pink Tide’ in Latin America” highlighting the elections of Argentina and Peru, indigenous mobilizations against neo-extractivist governments of Ecuador and ...
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May 13, 2016UncategorizedEcuador, food sovereignty, Pink Tide, social movements