Passing of indigenous actor represents the more visible end of a complex, centuries-long story of oppression and neglect
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Latin American Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½. His more recent scholarly work focuses on representations of finance in contemporary Spanish and Latin American narrative.
For more information: You can read more extensively about Antonio BolÃvar’s passing in . The Latin American section of Mongabay.org offers . More general reporting about the health crisis in the Amazon region can be found in from early May. The new Spanish-speaking podcast El hilo offers excellent context-oriented coverage of a major weekly development in Latin America, like . For further reading, Patel and Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things offers an excellent introduction to the intersections between colonial violence, extractivism, and human, labor, and environmental abuses. Charles Mann’s 1493 is a fascinating read on world system development following the European arrival to the Americas. For more in-depth reading, Ericka Beckman’s magnificent Capital Fictions represents a key to the extractivist mindset that developed amongst Latin American elites concurrently with the Second Industrial Revolution.