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Dustin spoke with Drs. Tanya Harmer and Tiffany Sippial about their new biographies on Beatriz Allende and Celia Sánchez Manduley. They discussed the significance of gender and the ways in which their subjects’ stories add to our collective understanding of politics and revolution during the mid-twentieth century. They also consider questions of leadership, legacies, and lessons today’s political activists can learn. Check it out!

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since last year’s controversial election and subsequent deposing of longtime president Evo Morales. Evo and many members of the government and political party MAS, the Movement towards Socialism, fled into exile as an interim government seized the reigns of power and used the military and security services to violently put down resistance. The results from Sunday proved a decisive victory for MAS and its candidate for president, former economy minister Luis Arce. Was the result a referendum on the fourteen years of MAS rule? Was it a referendum on the legitimacy of the interim government? Was does the result mean for Bolivia and the region? To explore these questions and more, Dustin and I spoke with Dr. Thomas C. Field Jr, an associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Field is the author of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kenned

En esta entrevista hacemos un recorrido por la carrera de la historiadora Gabrielle Kuenzli quien nos habla de su libro Acting Inca: National Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia en el analiza la re-construcción de la memoria Aymara y su representación en la imagen política nacional y, su próximo proyecto, centrado en el rol de los latinos en Estados Unidos en las carreras de caballos. Su nueva investigación revela el protagonismo de los jinetes latinos dentro del hipismo, un deporte que genera 215 billones de dolares en Estados Unidos. https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/history/our_people/directory/kuenzli_gabrielle.php https://upittpress.org/books/9780822962328/

Dr. Sarah Osten joined Steven to discuss the complex story of state consolidation in Mexico following the cessation of revolutionary violence and nationwide fighting. The Mexican Revolution's Wake -https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mexican-revolutions-wake/A7E101384E1EE07D5D773479153EF16F

Dr. Yuko Miki de Fordham University habla de su libro "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" con Carmen Soliz y Gionvanni Bello. podcast home: https://historiaspodcast.com/ book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frontiers-of-citizenship/D6D8DED62259DA179669030296AC7043

Join Steven and Dustin as they go on a deep dive into contemporary Venezuela with Dr. Alejandro Velasco. Alejandro talks about the country’s political crisis, including the increasingly fractured state of the opposition. They also discuss U.S. and international efforts to isolate the Maduro government, the ways that COVID has affected Venezuela, and the state of the country’s oil industry. Be sure to stick around for the episode’s postscript covering the recent United Nations report on political repression and state-directed violence in Venezuela.

Dustin spoke with an outstanding panel about the Donald Trump administration’s policies toward Latin America. Settle in for a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Margaret Commins, Dr. Mary Rose Kubal, Dr. Jeffrey Taffet, and Dr. Gregory Weeks covering Cuba, Venezuela, immigration, race, COVID, and much more.

El destape fue un movimiento social y cultural vital para ampliar la definición de democracia y la creación de una sociedad pluralista después del periodo dictatorial de los años setenta. El destape que se constituyo en una explosión de imágenes sobre sexualidad en Argentina, marcó en palabras de la historiadora Natalia Milanesio, "el mayor y más explosivo fenómeno sociocultural después de la caída de la dictadura militar". Para discutir su nuevo libro, Destape: Sexo, Democracia y Libertad en la Argentina post-dictatorial, Dra Natalia Milanesio habla con Carmen.

Dr. Pablo Palomino joined Steven to discuss his new book *The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History*. Book link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-invention-of-latin-american-music-9780190687403?cc=us&lang=en& El Manisero - https://youtu.be/sj7NfrrnaKE

Sarah spoke with Dr. Alma Rosa Alvarez, Professor of English at Southern Oregon University, about the development of Chicanx studies. They discussed the evolution of Chicanx literature, the intersection of modernization and Liberation Theology, and issues surrounding homophobia and sexism in the canon. The two also probed the particular challenges surrounding teaching Chicanx literature at a relatively small school in rural Oregon. Have a listen!

Dr. Jake Blanc spoke with Carlos about his new book *Before the Flood: the Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil.*

Land and the control of it lay at the core of Latin American economic inequality, social unrest, and political violence. It animates the scholarship on the region. In such countries with large indigenous communities as Bolivia, Mexico, and Honduras, the systematic dispossession of land remains an unresolved and contentious issue as these communities seek restitution while simultaneously defending current holdings. In Honduras, the acclaimed indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was a central figure in the defense of land from so-called economic development and infrastructure projects, in particular the successful campaign to stop the building of the Agua Zarca Dam on the Río Gualcarque on Lenca land. What is remarkable about Berta Cáceres is that much of her activism was done in the shadow of threats against her life, which only intensified during this campaign. In early March 2016, armed intruders assassinated Honduran indigenous activist in her home. Steven spoke with Nina Lakhani, environmental justice co

La historiadora Natalie Kimball discute son nosotros su trabajo Un secreto a voces: La historia del embarazo no deseado y el aborto en Bolivia. El libro acaba de salir impreso por la universidad de Rutgers. Kimball investiga las experiencias personales e íntimas que las mujeres bolivianas han tenido con la sexualidad y la reproducción. Estas experiencias revelan las actitudes contradictorias y ambivalentes que los sectores dominantes han tenido sobre la mujer y el sujeto indígena. https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/natalie-l-kimball https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/an-open-secret/9780813590738 Intro / Outro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvYxSMHsW8

Dr. David Dalton joined Steven to discuss his book entitled *Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.* After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity—the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize “primitive” indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work. David Dalton takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers—some state-funded, some independent—engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s. https://pages.uncc.edu/ddalto14/ https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400394

Cecilia Tossounian reconstruye diferentes representaciones de la feminidad moderna de la Argentina de los años 20 y 30, un período complejo en el que el Argentina vio la prosperidad y la crisis económica, una población cosmopolita creciente, el surgimiento de la cultura de consumo y el desarrollo del nacionalismo. Tossounian analiza cómo estas imágenes populares de la chica moderna ayudaron a dar forma a la identidad nacional de Argentina. https://conicet.academia.edu/CeciliaTossounian https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683401162

Dr. Matthew Pettway joined Steven to discuss his new book *Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion*. By focusing on the Afro-Cuban poets Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, known as Plácido, Pettway explores how they intertwined Spanish and African bodies of knowledge to create a narrative of emancipation in nineteenth-century Cuba. http://www.matthewpettway.com/ https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Cuban-Literature-in-the-Age-of-Black-Insurrection Intro/Outro: https://youtu.be/2NqzePPhp7E

El historiador peruano Gianncarlo Muschi nos habla de su investigación de doctorado que analiza la historia de migración peruana a Paterson, New Jersey en Estados Unidos. Su trabajo de muestra cómo las estrategias peruanas para sobrevivir a la economía informal en el Perú como el “recurseo,” fueron también instrumentos que ayudaron a los migrantes peruanos a consolidar redes económicas exitosas en Estados Unidos.

One of the more consequential and least studied outcomes of Bolivia's 1952 national revolution was settling and transformation of the country's tropical eastern frontier. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen explains how Mennonites from Mexico, Okinawans, and highland Bolivian indigenous moved into the region, forever transforming the environment and the trajectory of the city of Santa Cruz. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656106/landscape-of-migration/ https://history.wsu.edu/rci/ben-nobbs-theissen/

La historiadora Rossana Barragan discute con nosotros su mas reciente trabajo sobre el rol de las mujeres en las minas de Potosi en el periodo colonial como trabajadoras pero tambien como dueñas de trapiches. Una charla fascinante que nos ayuda a entender cómo ha cambiado la investigación sobre la historia colonial Andina de las ultimas tres décadas Rossana Barragán Romano, "Women in the Silver Mines of Potosí: Rethinking the History of 'Informality' and 'Precarity' (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)," International Review of Social History (24 October 2019), pp.1-26 Rossana Barragán Romano & Leda Papastefanaki, “Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction”, International Review of Social History (12 February 2020), pp. 1-40

La historiadora venezolana Cristina Soriano autora del libro Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela nos habla de los medios formales e informales de circulación de información, y en particular de ideas revolucionarias, durante el periodo de la independencia. Una fascinante y exhaustiva exploración de fuentes escritas: libros, panfletos, pasquines y fuentes orales: denuncias, y rumores en el medio de la crisis régimen colonial. https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/culturalstudies/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=cristina.soriano@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long https://unmpress.com/books/tides-revolution/9780826359865