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Book Launch: 'The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left' by Jeffery Webber<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/last-day-of-oppression>

This talk will explain the political dynamics and conflicts underpinning the contradictory evolution of left-wing governments and social movements in Latin America in the last two decades. Throughout the 2000s, Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What are the governments' relationships to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will they continue to rely on natural resource extraction? This talk is grounded in an analysis of trends in capitalist accumulation from 1990 to 2015, in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/last-day-of-oppression>

Mar 8, 2017 6:00 PM

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Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Understanding the Relationship between Security and Taxes with Evidence from Mexico<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/lape-security-taxes>

Gustavo Flores-Macias (Cornell) - This article provides novel micro-level evidence of the relationship between two central aspects of state capacity, taxation and the provision of law and order. Drawing on an original nationally-representative survey conducted in the context of Mexico's war on drugs, we estimate through a novel technique the size of the fiscal sacrifice citizens are willing to make to improve public safety, and investigate the determinants of attitudes towards heavier taxation for this end. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/lape-security-taxes>

Mar 9, 2017 6:15 PM

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Politics, Gender and Health: Insight from Argentina's Provinces<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/health-argentina-provinces>

Professor James McGuire (Wesleyan University) - This event is co-organised by KCL Department of International Development<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/idi/Index.aspx> and UCL Institute of the Americas<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/homepage> - Is greater political representation for women associated with better health outcomes? Previous research has linked women's legislative representation to greater public health care spending, more widespread use of basic health care services, and better health status. Most such research has been carried out, however, either at the cross-national level or across subnational units (states, districts) in the United States or India. This study explores the association between women's legislative representation and health outcomes in the provinces of Argentina. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/health-argentina-provinces>

Mar 13, 2017 5:30 PM

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'Cuba is already ours': Annexationists, filibusterers, and the United States' struggle to buy Cuba, c. 1820-1898<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/cuba-is-ours>

Dr Carrie Gibson - This paper discusses the many attempts of the United States to buy Cuba from Spain throughout the nineteenth century. Although all the bids ended in failure, each one came at a particular moment of change or crisis, and was set in a much wider global context. The bids in 1853 and 1898 were particularly crucial, coming before and after the abolition of slavery in both places, and this paper will focus on those two in discussing how this period was critical in the development of the relationship between Cuba and the United States. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/cuba-is-ours>

Mar 15, 2017 5:30 PM

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Urban Protest and Informal Democracy in Venezuela<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/urban-protest-venezuela>
Alejandro Velasco (NYU) - Venezuela today is a country mired in turmoil. But thirty years ago the story was different. Back then Venezuela stood for many as an inclusive democracy in a region where dictatorship and civil war reigned. Enlightened leaders, strong parties, powerful unions - all spoke of a stable political system that for decades managed to ensure social peace. Or so it seemed. As historian Alejandro Velasco argues, the conflicts that grip Venezuela today aren't a departure from but a continuation of decades-long struggles over what kind of democracy would emerge after the country's last military dictatorship fell in 1958. More... <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/urban-protest-venezuela>

Mar 22, 2017 5:30 PM

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