Latin America

“Confronting Capitalism in Twentieth-century Latin America.” In Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization, ed. Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare, 257–282. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.

“Smoothing the Contradictions: The Political History of Fossil Fuels.” In The Struggle for Natural Resources: Findings from Bolivian History, ed. Carmen Soliz and Rossana Barragán, 170–195. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.

(Review): Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn, by Gabriel Hetland. Hispanic American Historical Review 104, no. 2 (2024): 352–353.

“(Re)making Revolution.” Interview. Against the Grain, August 7, 2023.

“Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the ‘People’s War’ Strategy.” In Transnational Communism across the Americas, ed. Marc Becker, Margaret M. Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob A. Zumoff, 215–232. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

(Review): South-South Solidarity and the Latin America Left, by Jessica Stites-Mor. Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2023): 199–200.

(Review): The Impasse of the Latin American Left, by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber. Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 4 (2023): 740–742.

“Our Social Conquests Will Be Respected: Peasants and Military Dictatorship in Cochabamba, Bolivia.” Hispanic American Historical Review 102, no. 3 (2022): 481-512.

“Beyond the Comandantes: Revolutions and Revolutionaries since 1959” (review essay based on eight books). Latin American Research Review 57, no. 2 (2022): 504-14.

(Review): Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left, edited by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez. Hispanic American Historical Review 102, no. 2 (2022): 366-68.

“Smarter Empire.” Sidecar, March 8, 2021.

(Review): No Barrier Can Contain It:  Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War, by Ariel Mae Lambe. The Volunteer 39, no. 2 (2021): 18-19.

(Review): Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present, by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Mennonite Quarterly Review 45, no. 2 (2021): 265-67.

“The Bolivian Left’s Election Win Is a Positive Sign, But It Inherits a Dire Situation.” Guardian, October 21, 2020.

“Letting Latin Americans Live.” NACLA Report on the Americas 52, no. 1 (2020): 93-99. With Atenea Jiménez Lemon. (Spanish version also available)

(Review): Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas, by Amy C. Offner. The Americas 77, no. 4 (2020): 670-71.

“HAHR Forum on Contemporary Bolivia and History.” Hispanic American Historical Review blog, December 18, 2019.

“Our Debt to Central American Refugees.” Published by Democratic Socialists of America and Historians for Peace and Democracy, September 9, 2019.

“Liberating the Left’s History.” Fifteeneightyfour (Cambridge University Press blog), August 27, 2019.

“Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans.” NACLA, August 14, 2019.

“El Salvador’s FMLN and the Constraints on Leftist Government.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, ed. Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost (October 2019). DOI: 10.1093/ acrefore/9780190228637.013.1768.

• Spanish translation published as “El FMLN de El Salvador y las restricciones sobre el gobierno de izquierda.” Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe(San José) 17, no. 1 (2020).

“Introduction: Revolutionary Actors, Encounters, and Transformations.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 1-18. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (edited book, 2019)

(Review): The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Sinclair Thomson, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, and Mark Goodale. The Historian 81, no. 4 (2019): 716-17.

(Review): USAID in Bolivia: Partner or Patrón? by Lawrence C. Heilman. Journal of Latin American Studies 51, no. 1 (2019): 222-24.

“Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.

(Review): Where Are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, edited by Sian Lazar. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 15, no. 3 (2018): 120-22.

(Review): Oil and Nation: A History of the Bolivian Petroleum Sector, by Stephen C. Cote. Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 1 (2018): 158-59.

“The Huddled Masses Were Never Welcome.” Counterpunch, September 5, 2017.

“A Partial Peace in Colombia.” Against the Current 187 (March-April 2017): 9-11.

(Review): “Stimulating a Cooperative Spirit? Public Health and U.S.-Bolivia Relations in the 1950s,” by Nicole Pacino. H-Diplo, December 6, 2017. 

(Review): Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia, by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Ethnohistory 64, no. 2 (2017): 322-23.

“Alianzas revolucionarias del siglo XX en Bolivia: Entre la coalición y la ruptura.” Fuentes (La Paz, Bolivia) 11, no. 49 (2017): 6-18.

Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (book, 2017)

“From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952-1969.” Hispanic American Historical Review 97, no. 1 (2017): 95-129.

• Abridged Spanish translation published as “De ‘Puertas Abiertas’ a la nacionalización: Los hidrocarburos y el choque de visiones económicas en Bolivia, 1952-1969.” Historia (La Paz, Bolivia) 40 (2017): 59-90.

“The Making of an Interethnic Coalition: Urban and Rural Anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 11, no. 2 (2016): 163-88.

• Revised version published as “Total Subversion: Interethnic Radicalism in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 129-55. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

(Review): “Dividing the Waters: How Power, Property, and Protest Transformed the Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879-2000” (Ph.D. diss.), by Sarah Thompson Hines. Dissertation Reviews, April 4, 2016.

“War by Other Means in El Salvador.” NACLA, March 16, 2015.

“Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism: ‘Something That Might Be Called Neocon.’” Against the Current 175 (March-April 2015): 18-22. With Diana Sierra Becerra. Reposted at Jacobin as “Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment.” (Spanish version also available)

“Drug War Winners and Losers” (review of Dawn Paley, Drug War Capitalism). Against the Current 177 (July-August 2015).

“How ‘Partnership’ Weakens Solidarity: Colombian GM Workers and the Limits of UAW Internationalism.” WorkingUSA 17, no. 2 (2014): 239-60. With Diana C. Sierra Becerra.

“Community Democracy Confronts Mining in El Salvador.” Upside Down World, December 2, 2014. With Diana C. Sierra.

“Inside Venezuela’s Proceso” (review of Sujatha Fernandes, Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela). Against the Current 171 (July-August 2014): 33-34.

“GM’s New CEO Is Not a Feminist.” ZNet blog, May 1, 2014. With Diana Sierra Becerra.

“Venezuela and the Global Left: What We Might Learn from Our Venezuelan Counterparts.” ZNet blog, February 27, 2014.

“Negroponte’s War Crimes.” The Michigan Daily (Ann Arbor, MI), February 26, 2014. With Diana Sierra Becerra.

“Democracy in Latin America: The Latinobarómetro Poll.” Venezuelanalysis.com, January 2, 2014.

“Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror.” NACLA Report on the Americas 46, no. 2 (2013): 58-61. Expanded version at ZNet and NYTimes eXaminer.

“Indians, Leftists, and Rebellion in Bolivia” (review of Jeffery Webber, Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia). Against the Current 163 (March-April 2013): 37-38, 42.

“Chávez’s Real Venezuela.” The Michigan Daily (Ann Arbor, MI), March 14, 2013.

(Review): The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952-Present, by James F. Siekmeier. Bulletin of Latin American Research 32, no. 2 (2013): 242-44.

“Purging the Forces of Darkness: The United States, Monetary Stabilization, and the Containment of the Bolivian Revolution.” Diplomatic History 37, no. 3 (2013): 509-37.

“The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left.” Latin American Perspectives 40, no. 3 (2013): 207-25.

• Revised version published in Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Steve Ellner, 249-69. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
• Spanish translation published as “Buena izquierda, mala izquierda e intervenciones benevolentes: Periodismo al servicio de una agenda neocolonial.” In La izquierda latinoamericana en el poder: Cambios y enfrentamientos en el siglo XXI, ed. Steve Ellner, 321-53. Caracas: Fundación Celarg/Fundación Centro Nacional de Estudios Históricos, 2018.

“Turning Michigan Into Colombia: The Global Assault on Workers and the Prospects for Solidarity.” ZNet, December 26, 2012.

“Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960-1970.” Latin American Perspectives 38, no. 6 (2011): 6-24.

“Latin American Opinion and US Policy.” Venezuelanalysis.com, October 30, 2011.

“Kumbaya and Bullets: The Few Winners and Many Losers with the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement.” ZNet blog, October 7, 2011.

“Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity.” ZNet blog, October 1, 2011.

“Laboratorio boliviano: Intervención norteamericana y la economía política de la contrarrevolución, 1952-1969.” Análisis Político (La Paz) 15 (2011): 87-108.

“Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the US Vision for Latin America.” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 29, 2010. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“Latinobarómetro 2010: Latin American Public Opinion.” ZNet/Venezuelanalysis.com, December 7, 2010.

“Discrediting Alternatives to Neoliberalism.” NACLA Report on the Americas 43, no. 5 (2010): 45-48. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“Good Left, Bad Left: Compliance and Defiance in US Press Coverage of Latin America.” ZNet, July 17, 2010.

“Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model.” ZNet/Upside Down World, July 5, 2010.

“Patria, progreso y héroes: Una crítica del currículo de historia.” Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa 15, no. 45 (2010): 599-620.

(Review): A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952, by Laura Gotkowitz. Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 4 (2010): 863-65.

“The 2009 Latinobarómetro Poll.” ZNet blog, December 15, 2009.

“Obama and Latin America: The First Six Months.” NACLA, July 23, 2009.

“US Policy and Democracy in Latin America: The Latinobarómetro Poll.” ZNet/Venezuelanalysis.com, May 29, 2009.

“Colombia and Venezuela: Testing the Propaganda Model.” NACLA Report on the Americas 41, no. 6 (2008): 50-52. Expanded version posted on ZNet.

“U.S. Cuba Policy Is Immoral, Illegal” (letter to the editor). Baltimore Sun, September 1, 2007.