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While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America's engagement with contemporary problems in Western philosophy and describes the transformative impact of this encounter on contemporary thought

Despite democratization throughout Latin America, massive human rights
abuses continue in the region's prisons. Conditions have become so bad
that most governments have begun to enact improvements, including new
criminal codes and facility decongestion. However, once in place, these
reforms are undermined by chaotic criminal justice systems, poor policy
administration, and rising crime rates leading to greater detention
powers for the police. After describing current prison conditions in
Latin America and the principal reforms to address them, this article
explains how political and administrative limitations hinder the range
of agencies and officials responsible for implementing those changes.

AbstractThis essay charts the entanglements and "blowback" effects of U.S. policy toward Latin American drug exports over the last century as the backdrop to today's cascading drug violence in northern Mexico. The history of cocaine reveals a series of major geopolitical shifts (closely related to U.S. interdictionist drug war policies) that bring drug commodity chains, illicit trafficking centers, and conflicts, over the long run, closer to the United States. It analyzes shifts from initial legal cocaine and small-time postwar smuggling of the central Andes to the concentrating 1970s–1990s "cartel" epicenter in northern Andean Colombia, to the 1990s political shift north to Mexican transhipment and organizational leadership. Violence around cocaine has intensified at every step, and the present conflict portends another shift in the chain.

This anthology offers the first serious, broad-ranging collection of English translations of significant Latin American contributions to social and political thought spanning the last forty years. Iván Márquez has judiciously selected narratives of resistance and liberation; ground-breaking texts in Latin American fields of inquiry such as liberation theology, philosophy, pedagogy, and dependency theory; and important readings in guerrilla revolution, socialist utopia, and post-Cold War thought, especially in the realms of democracy and civil society, alternatives to neoliberalism, and nationa

Discusses why efforts by three governments of the post-military dictatorship era to reform the "Plan Laboral" remain incomplete and consequences for organized labor, focusing on variables of consensus politics and employer concessions. Completed labor law reform under Patricio Aylwin, proposed but never ratified changes under Frei, and initiatives under Lagos.