Reflections on Hurricane Maria
Lara Dotson-Renta, Dartmouth '03, writes about Hurricane Maria in the Washington Post.
[more]This event convened a panel of experts to discuss the upcoming October 2022 federal elections in Brazil, arguably one of the most pressing elections of modern contemporary Latin American politics. In 2018, Brazilians elected the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Bolsonaro's election represented the most serious challenge to Brazil's democracy since the restoration of civilian rule in 1985 after over two decades of military dictatorship (1964-85). In conjunction with Bolsonaro's sustained weakening of democratic institutions and norms, his presidency has seen record deforestation of the Amazon, rising violence against Afro-Brazilians, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ persons, and a troubled response against the COVID-19 pandemic in which Bolsonaro spread misinformation about vaccines. His main opponent is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the former trade union leader and president of Brazil (2003-10), whose previous imprisonment on corruption charges based on flimsy evidence preemptively ended his 2018 presidential campaign. The current election promises to be no less dramatic and our panel of experts will address a complex, highly fluid situation whose implications extend beyond Brazil and will engage anyone interested in the global rise of right-wing authoritarian populists, climate change, and the potential redux of the 2000s "Pink Tide" of leftist leaders across Latin America.
You can view the recording here: Precarious Democracy recording
Lara Dotson-Renta, Dartmouth '03, writes about Hurricane Maria in the Washington Post.
[more]Carey explores psychological predispositions that are associated with conspiratorial beliefs in an upcoming article in the Latin American Research Review.
[more]History's Pamela Voekel won MIT prize for her work with Freedom Unviersity.
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[more]Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, 2007-2013, spoke at Dartmouth on September 26. A career diplomat, he also served as Deputy Assisant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and Chief of Policy Planning at the Mexican Foreign Ministry and was Mexican Consul-General in New York.
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