...Mihnea Tănăsescu Developments in Ecuador, New Zealand, Spain, and elsewhere show how legal representation for the nonhuman world has begun to take hold around the world, varying with local circumstances. Ecuador’s 2008 constitution broke new ground by including rights for nature, but these have...

...Will Freeman Ecuador until recently was known as a haven of relative peace in its region, but it is in the process of being transformed by surging crime. The country’s homicide rate is now among the highest in Latin America; a presidential candidate campaigning on an anti-crime platform...

... Nicolas Parent Venezuela refugees asylum law immigration migrants Hugo Chávez Nicolás Maduro Colombia Peru Ecuador Brazil Cartagena Declaration 56 [T]he Venezuelan displacement crisis is a crucial test of the liberal immigration policies that have been adopted across Latin America...

... Ecuador Lenín Moreno Rafael Correa Country Alliance party elections corruption Odebrecht Panama Papers authoritarianism democratic transition 49 Rather than take marching orders from the outgoing president, Moreno distanced his government from the authoritarianism and corruption...

... systems dominated by those of European origin and/or mestizos. In Ecuador, for example, indigenous peoples from both the highlands and the Amazon lowlands began to exert pressure on the government through such institutions as the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ec- uador (CONAIE). In some...

... Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI Dilma Rousseff Brazil Michelle Bachelet Chile Hugo Chávez Venezuela Evo Morales Bolivia Néstor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentina Rafael Correa Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba Committees Defense Revolution Colombia A dynamic...

... nationalism on the political left, an ideology that is avowedly social- ist. In a number of countries, notably Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, nationalists won power by 72 CURRENT HISTORY February 2015 making a compelling case that they could improve nonelites economic situation. The most influential...

... Liberation Army Boliva Evo Morales Pachakutik Movement Toward Socialism Ecuador Confederation Indigenous Nationals Ecuardo Declaration Rights Indigenous Peoples 83 Although isolated victories do occur . . . contemporary indigenous politics is marked more by retrenchment than by progress...

... political outcomes. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Bolivia Ecuador Chile Guatemala Colombia Venezuela Pachakutik Evo Morales Mexico Brazil Broadening Democracy: Latin America s Indigenous Peoples Movements DONNA LEE VAN...

... Chile Ecuador Latin America Lula Mexico Peru Venezuela In 1970, Salvador Allende finally ascended tothe Chilean presidency on his fourth attempt.The Socialist candidate with a radical agenda won the prize that had long eluded him only to be overthrown in a generation-defining military coup led...

... of the University of California Brazil Central America Costa Rica democracy Ecuador Latin America Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Latin America s democracies are not in danger of collapse at this time. But there are many real problems, and not many indications that these problems are being...

... into the relationship during the second Clinton administration and has evoked growing displeasure within Latin America. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Central America Colombia drugs Ecuador immigration Latin Mexico Peru United States...

...Shelley A. McConnell South America's first coup since the continent's return to democracy was a curious one. What led Ecuador's indigenous people and military to overthrow the government–and then deny that they had done so? © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents...