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Mano Dura: El Salvador responds to gangs

Although it is increasingly recognised that violence, crime, and associated fear are challenging democratic governance in Latin America, less attention has been paid to the ways in which state responses to crime contribute to the problem. By analysing El ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Building bridges across a double divide: alliances between US and Latin American labour and NGOs

Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Trying to build alliances that span the divide between trade unions and NGOs as well as the divide between the North and the South might seem a utopian task. But this is exactly what an imagina ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11

The Spaces of Neoliberalism: Land, Place and Family in Latin America

Author:  Chase, Jacquelyn (ed.) Publisher:  Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002 ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49

The Mexican tortilla crisis of 2007: the impacts of grain-price increases on food-production chains

This article examines the case of the Mexican ‘tortilla crisis’ of 2007. Drawing on reviews of literature and the media, key-informant interviews, and secondary databases, the authors explore the response of the Mexican maize–tortilla ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:33