Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from above and below.

There are some 700,000 Latin Americans of Palestinian origin, living in fourteen countries of South America. In particular, Palestinian diaspora communities have a considerable presence in Chile, Honduras, and El Salvador. Many members of these communities belong to the professional middle classes, a situation which enables them to play a prominent role in the political and economic life of their countries. The article explores the evolving attitudes of Latin American Palestinians towards the issue of Palestinian statehood. It shows the growing involvement of these communities in Palestinian affairs and their contribution in recent years towards the wide recognition of Palestinian rights — including the right to self-determination and statehood — in Latin America. But the political views of members of these communities also differ considerably about the form and substance of a Palestinian statehood and on the issue of a two-states versus one-state solution.

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Dialogues

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture ◽

10.1525/lavc.2020.2.4.55 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 55-60

Author(s):

Barbara E. Mundy

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

The Political ◽

Section Deal ◽

English Speaking ◽

English Speaking World ◽

Central Claim

This collection of essays reconsiders a seminal 1961 article by George Kubler, the most important art historian of Latin America of the English-speaking world at the time of its writing. Often greeted with indifference or hostility, Kubler’s central claim of extinction is still a highly contested one. The essays in this section deal with Kubler’s reception in Mexico, the political stakes of his claim in relation to indigeneity, as well as the utility of Kubler’s categories and objects of “extinction” beyond their original framing paradigm.

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Coalitional Presidentialism in Cross-Regional Perspective

10.1093/oso/9780198817208.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Chaisty ◽

Nic Cheeseman ◽

Timothy J. Power

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

The Political ◽

Political Landscape ◽

Case Selection ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Empirical Material ◽

Regional Perspective

This chapter introduces the three regions—sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Former Soviet Union—and the nine countries—Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine—that provide the empirical material for the book. It introduces the two criteria used for case selection: 1) democratic competitiveness; 2) de jure and de facto constitutional provisions that empower presidents to be coalitional formateurs. It also introduces a variable that measures the salience of cross-party cooperation: the Index of Coalitional Necessity. Finally, it sketches the political landscape that has shaped the dynamics of coalitional presidentialism within each region, and it draws attention to important contextual differences between the nine country cases.

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