(Oct. 7, 2005) President Ricardo Lagos criticized Chile’s national television station (TVN) yesterday for airing sensationalist news stories. The president questioned why 48 percent of TVN’s news coverage on Tuesday evening dealt with crime and delinquency. “The first five and most important stories [on TVN] were about delinquency” said Lagos, “this is absolutely inadequate.” This… Read More LAGOS CRITICIZES CHILE’S NATIONAL TV
Citation Lind, Amy. Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Florencia Mallon’s 2005 book, Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001, examines the history of a Mapuche indigenous community in southern Chile, focusing on their defense of land and culture in the face of State colonization from 1906 to 2001. Her monograph places archival documents in dialogue… Read More Courage Tastes of Blood: Florencia Mallon
Citation Gallegos, Franklin R. La Insurrección de Abril No Fue Sólo Una Fiesta. Quito: Taller El Colectivo, 2005.
Citation Striffler, Steve. “Class Formation in Latin America: One Family’s Enduring Journey between Country and City.” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 65 (2004): 11–25.
Citation Herzog, Tamar. Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650—1750). History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Citation Benavides, O. Hugo. Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Citation Becker, Marc. “Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944).” International Review of Social History, Supplement 12, no. 49 (2004): 41-64.
Citation Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Citation Zamosc, Leon. “The Indian Movement in Ecuador: From Politics of Influence to Politics of Power.” In The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America, ed. Nancy Grey Postero and Leon Zamosc, 131-157. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2004.
Citation Sawyer, Suzana. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Mutlinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
Citation Williams, Derek. “Popular Liberalism and Indian Servitude: The Making and Unmaking of Ecuador’s Antilandlord State, 1845-1868.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83, no. 4 (November 2003): 697-733.
Citation Sevilla Larrea, Carmen. Vida y Muerte en Quito: Raíces del Sujeto Moderno en la Colonia Temprana. 2da. ed. Quito: Abya Yala, 2003.
Citation Whitten, Norman E., ed. Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
Citation Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Latin American Silhouettes. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003.
Citation Cahill, David Patrick, and Blanca Tovías, eds. Elites Indígenas En Los Andes: Nobles, Caciques y Cabildantes Bajo El Yugo Colonial. 1. ed. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2003.
Lucio Gutiérrez, an army colonel who helped overthrow two previous governments, was elected president in a second-round runoff vote against banana-export magnate Álvaro Noboa. Leader of the “Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero” party and allied with the Indigenous Pachakutik and populist revolutionary party Movimineto Popular Democrático, Gutiérrez ran on a reform and anti-corruption platform amid an ongoing political crisis that has seen the collapse of the South American nation’s financial system and dollarization of the economy.… Read More Ecuador Elects Army Colonel President in Runoff Vote Against Banana Magnate
Citation Pallares, Amalia. From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Citation Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Citation Kofas, Jon V. “The IMF, the World Bank, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Ecuador, 1956-1966.” Latin American Perspectives 28, no. 5 (September 2001): 50-83.
Imagine you have thirty hours of interviews, nine months of work, more than seven decades of oral history from a privileged witness to the rise of Peronism and the Argentine labor movement…and then you start reading postmodern theory (125). Was it all a waste of time, you ask? This is Daniel James’s dilemma after recording… Read More Doña María′s Story: Daniel James
Citation Black, Chad T. The Making of an Indigenous Movement: Culture, Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Latin American Institute, 1999.
Citation Núñez, Jorge. Historias del País de Quito. 1. ed. Quito: Eskletra Editorial, 1999.
Citation Ponce, Pilar. Certezas Ante La Incertidumbre: Élite y Cabildo de Quito En El Siglo XVII. 1a ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1998.
Citation Johnson, Lyman L., and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds. The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America. 1st ed. Diálogos. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Jeffrey Gould’s monograph, To Die in This Way (1998), looks at the dialectic relationship between indigenous identity and the formation of the nation-state in Nicaragua from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth. Gould challenges the “myth of mestizaje” that holds that, except for the Miskito coast, the Central American nation is an ethnically-homogeneous… Read More To Die in This Way: Jeffrey Gould
Rappaport, Joanne. The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Latin America Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Citation Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La Audiencia de Quito: Aspectos económicos y sociales (Siglos XVI – XVIII). Colección Pendoneros, Nr. 23. Quito: Ed. del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1998.
Citation Escandell Tur, Neus. Producción y Comercio de Tejidos Coloniales: Los Obrajes y Chorrillos Del Cusco, 1570-1820. Archivos de Historia Andina 23. Cusco, Perú: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de Las Casas,” 1997.
Citation Guerrero, Andrés. “The Construction of a Ventriloquist’s Image: Liberal Discourse and the ‘Miserable Indian Race’ in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ecuador.” Journal of Latin American Studies 29, no. 3 (October 1997): 555-90.
Citation Lavallé, Bernard. Quito y la crisis de la Alcabala (1580-1600). 2. ed. Biblioteca de historia ecuatoriana 16. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1997.
Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, Latin America Otherwise : Languages, Empires, Nations (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).
Citation Pineo, Ronn F. Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
