Corporate power, US drug enforcement and the repression of indigenous peoples in Latin America

Bartilow, Horace A.

doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1552075

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“…For Reno (2004, p. 623), the collaboration between foreign firms and local strongmen re-emerged in contemporary times as '[t] he cheapest and most efficacious option for indirect management of disorder'. Civil conflict shapes the availability of these extra-legal mechanisms; Bartilow (2019) argues that the expansion of the drug war across Latin America resulted in the privatisation of terror at the hands of corporations, colluding with nonstate armed paramilitary or criminal groups. Privatisation allows for more opaque interactions with armed groups, subject to fewer calls for transparency and accountability than governments.…”

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The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

2022

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From houses to roads, infrastructure provides a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and individuals, infrastructure provides governments with a powerful tool to mould citizens and control populations. Yet, at the same time, it also provides individuals and collectives with a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructure therefore often reconfigures social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follows the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has been primarily constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet it has also been an important site of resistance, and infrastructure has been central to these struggles, including indigenous efforts to challenge capitalist-colonial expansion. Latin America’s history and diversity create unique infrastructure configurations, and the region’s remarkable geography adds to their distinctiveness. This cross-disciplinary book seeks to capture the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures. The empirical chapters explore a wide range of infrastructures, from irrigation networks in Peru to nuclear plants in Cuba. The introduction builds on these chapters to show the value of understanding infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In doing so, the volume makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics.

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The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

2022

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“…It was rather oriented toward deepening processes of capital expansion with respect to mining, energy development, and agro-export activities. Capitalist expansion proceeded under the auspices of the war on drugs as paramilitaries, supposedly mobilized by the state to fight the armed insurgencies, attacked rural communities whose lands were coveted by transnational mining and agricultural corporations (Paley, 2014;Bartilow, 2019).…”

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The Fourth Transformation and the Trajectory of Neoliberalism in Mexico

Coughlin¹

2022

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The 2018 electoral victories of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (hereafter, AMLO) and his political party, Morena, may represent a significant inflection point in the development of neoliberalism in Mexico. The trajectory of neoliberalism has unfolded in terms of what Nils Gilman refers to as the “twin insurgency”—a plutocratic insurgency that, since the 1970s, has been restructuring capitalism on a transnational basis and a criminal insurgency that has flourished within the denationalized social spaces of neoliberalism. López Obrador’s national project, termed “the Fourth Transformation,” is an effort to anchor processes of capital expansion in Mexico within a restoration of political community centered on AMLO’s policy agenda and political rhetoric. In a broader context, it is also a process of state transformation historically shaped by the twin insurgency and characterized by the emergence of new hybrid modes of organized violence. Las victorias electorales de 2018 de Andrés Manuel López Obrador (en adelante, AMLO) y su partido político, Morena, pueden representar un punto de inflexión significativo en el desarrollo del neoliberalismo en México. La trayectoria del neoliberalismo se ha desarrollado en términos de lo que Nils Gilman llama la “insurgencia gemela”, una insurgencia plutocrática que, desde la década de 1970, ha reestructurado el capitalismo sobre una base transnacional y una insurgencia criminal que ha florecido dentro de los espacios sociales desnacionalizados del neoliberalismo. El proyecto nacional de López Obrador, denominado “la Cuarta Transformación”, es un esfuerzo por anclar los procesos de expansión de capital en México dentro de una restauración de la comunidad política centrada en la agenda política y la retórica política de AMLO. En un contexto más amplio, también es un proceso de transformación estatal históricamente moldeado por la insurgencia gemela y caracterizado por el surgimiento de nuevos modos híbridos de violencia organizada.

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