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 糖心破解版. 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 Bol铆var鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 1493 is a fascinating read on world system development following the European arrival to the Americas. For more in-depth reading, Ericka Beckman鈥檚 magnificent Capital Fictions represents a key to the extractivist mindset that developed amongst Latin American elites concurrently with the Second Industrial Revolution.