AQ Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs: Jimena Flórez
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A globe-trotting Colombian entrepreneur whose healthy snack company speaks to her roots.
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How Can Latin America Keep Its Entrepreneurs At Home?
This article is adapted from AQ’s print issue on entrepreneurship. To see our AQ Top 5 list of young entrepreneurs in Latin America, click here. When Bruno Santiago first came up with his idea for a business travel app that combines commercial and private jet databases, he sat down and wrote a list of pros and … Read more
[i]¡Un Año Agitado![/i] 2016 Was a Whopper in Latin America, Too
In many ways, 2016 was a tumultuous year for Latin America. New leadership took root in Argentina on the promise of an economic break from the past; a drawn-out impeachment fight saw Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff removed from office less than two weeks after the Rio Olympics; and a simmering crisis in Venezuela still … Read more
Understanding Indigenous Identity through Film
Anthropology and film have cohabited since the early days of cinema. The blending of artful narrative with scientifically grounded ethnography was pioneered as a genre – dubbed “ethnofiction” – by Jean Rouch, one of the foremost documentary filmmakers of the 20th century. Rouch’s films focused on social life and rituals in Niger and Mali and, … Read more
Unique Indigenous Poetry and Art Highlight AQ’s Latest Culture Issue
AQ is proud to offer the second installment of “Cultura,” our in-depth look at art and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this issue, we sample the incredible diversity of the region’s indigenous heritage, exploring artistic movements that are both steeped in tradition and constantly evolving. This edition includes a selection of five … Read more
The Photography of ‘Indigenous Voices’
“Inner Disruptions” is a project with indigenous women from different communities and ethnic groups of the department of Vaupés, Colombia. After a close encounter with each one of them, I used their life’s stories in order to put together in each case a different prosthesis which extends, limits, covers, outlines or highlights their bodies or … Read more
How Paraguay Is Finally Reckoning With Its Dark Past
This article is adapted from AQ’s most recent issue, “Fixing Brazil.” To receive the print edition at home, subscribe here. It was nicknamed the caperucita roja — “Little Red Riding Hood” — and during the 1954 to 1989 dictatorship of the late General Alfredo Stroessner, the appearance of a red Chevrolet Custom 10 in the streets of Asunción was … Read more
AQ Top 5: Latin American Politicians Under 40
This article is adapted from AQ’s most recent issue, “Fixing Brazil.” To receive the print edition at home, subscribe here. Across Latin America, a new generation of young leaders is reinvigorating politics — and already making real changes. The moment is right for them: As governments from Brazil to Chile confront record low approval ratings, … Read more
Uruguay Tops AQ’s Social Inclusion Index for Third Year in a Row
This article is adapted from AQ’s most recent issue, “Fixing Brazil.” To receive the print edition at home, subscribe here. For the third consecutive year, Uruguay has come out on top in Americas Quarterly’s Social Inclusion Index, an annual survey measuring how effectively countries in the region are able to serve their citizens – regardless of race, … Read more
Marina Was Right. Will She Be Brazil’s Next President?
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The environmentalist who predicted the crisis is now a contender for 2018. But she has her own challenges to face.
Introducing AQ’s New Issue: Fixing Brazil
I’d like to start AQ’s special issue on Brazil with a confession. Over the past two years, as Latin America’s biggest country sank ever deeper into crisis, I’ve voiced more or less the same view: That Brazil is resilient, that its long-term history is one of clear growth and progress. That it will come out … Read more
Foi tudo culpa dela?
Read in English Era 12 de outubro de 2010, e o ministro da Fazenda do Brasil estava fazendo uma apresentação para a comunidade financeira de Nova York sob os lustres de cristal da sede da Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Duas semanas antes, Guido Mantega havia causado sensação ao denunciar uma “guerra cambial” global que … Read more
Marina estava certa
Read in English Houve um breve momento durante a campanha presidencial brasileira em 2014 em que Marina Silva parecia destinada a ganhar tudo. Ao escapar notoriamente da pobreza, da malária, intoxicação por mercúrio e outros horrores aos que se expôs crescendo na Amazônia, aprender a ler aos 16 anos, e transformar-se de empregada doméstica em … Read more
Uma primeira análise de 2018
Read in English MARINA SILVA, 58, EX-MINISTRA DO MEIO AMBIENTE Por que ela pode vencer: Atual líder nas pesquisas, ela combina uma postura antielitista com uma plataforma econômica de centro. Mensagem anticorrupção clara, uma história de vida inspiradora. Pode ter apelo entre ricos, pobres e a classe média. Por que ela pode perder: Um colapso no … Read more
Why a Quechua Novelist Doesn’t Want His Work Translated
On the 79th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass. That such quintessentially American poetry would be published on a day commemorating the country’s birth suggests both homage and irony — perhaps intentional. But when Pablo Landeo Muñoz published his novel Aqupampa (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos) on … Read more
