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Special issue in Democratization edited by Timothy Power and Jamie Loxton

Maryhen Jiménez Morales wins the Lord Bryce Award for best dissertation in comparative politics

New book out, co-edited by Dr Andreza A de Souza Santos

New article by Dr Lessa published in LARR

Transition in Venezuela? Challenges for the Rule of Law and Human Rights in 2021

Watch the video of the LAC seminar with Maryhen Jiménez and José Miguel Vivanco

The matters with Evangelical Lives in Brazil. Watch the video of the LAC seminar with Juliano Spyer

New book on inequality by Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

New paper published in Nature Scientific Data by Dr Andreza A. de Souza Santos et al., bringing data on local policies in Brazil to contain the spread of #COVID19

What explains resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil, despite high seroprevalence?

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos joins the CADDE group in research published by The Lancet

Article by MSc student, Jan Minke Contreras, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research

Brazilian Studies Programme signs cooperation agreement for academic research with Brazil Supreme Court

John Fell Grant awarded to Andreza de Souza Santos

In Defense of Area Studies in the UK: Solidarity with Colleagues at the University of London

Brazilians at Oxford work on COVID-19 research

Brazilians working in Brazil and abroad are racing against time to find ways to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Andreza (LAC), Darlan Candido (Zoology) and Pedro Folegatti (Clinical Research Fellow) in Oxford show a little of their work routine

Article by former Academic Visitor, Leandro Raizer, published by Sociologies in Dialogue

Cannabis Reform in Uruguay

Article by LAC former student, Jonas von Hoffmann, published in the Journal of Politics in Latin America

New study in Science on the pandemic in Brazil

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, lecturer at the Latin American Centre and Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme, is part of the research team whose new study on the SARS-Co V-2 pandemic in Brazil has just been published in Science.

Latin America in an Age of Discontent

Michael Reid, Senior Editor at The Economist, interviewed by LAC students, Maria Maria Puolakkainen, Sabrina Escobar-Miranda, Pablo Uribe and Clement Bourg

The Caribbean Cold War New book by former LAC student Nicolás Prados published by Palgrave Macmillan

Alan Angell’s Memories of Pinochet’s Chile

Alan Angell, Emeritus Fellow at the LAC, talked to Tanya Harmer about her biography of Beatriz Allende in our recent ‘Tertulia at the Latin American History Seminar’. Following the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, he visited Chile in 1981 – he offers here some memories of his visit

Canadian prize to Oxford DPhil Student working on Indigenous human rights in Latin America

The Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) awarded the 2020 CALACS Graduate Essay Prize to Nancy R. Tapias Torrado

US Hegemony and the Americas

Arturo Santa-Cruz, Professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, offers a summary of his recent book on US hegemony in Latin America, the subject of his talk at the LAC

The politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos offers a review of the launch of her book at the Latin American Centre

The impact of COVID-19 in Latin America

We have compiled a selection of titles on the impact of COVID-19 on the societies, politics and economies of Latin America

Gustavo Hirsch (MSc, 2017-18) remembers his time at the LAC

The Latin American Boom Phenomenon in the Publishing World

Consuelo Sáizar, former CEO at the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico, outlines some of the main landmarks in the publishing history of the Latin American Boom

Maestras de Escuela en Argentina, 1880-1920

Flavia Fiorucci, investigadora de Conicet y de la Universidad de Quilmes en Argentina, ofrece un resumen de su charla en nuestro seminario de historia

VIRGILIO BARCO

Malcolm Deas, LAC’s Emeritus Fellow, offers a brief portrait of former Colombian President Virgilio Barco, the subject of his latest book

Fiscal Policy in the Time of Coronavirus

With authorization from the IDB we publish an analysis of fiscal policy options for Latin America and the Caribbean as the crisis of coronavirus develops, written by Alejandro Izquierdo and Martín Ardanaz

Migrants and the Impact of COVID-19 on Remittances

With authorization from the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, we publish their report on Migrants and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Remittances

El COVID-19 en América Latina

Con autorización del Real Instituto Elcano, publicamos el siguiente informe de Carlos Malamud y Rogelio Núñez, donde se examinan los desafíos políticos, retos para los sistemas sanitarios e incertidumbre económica, causados por el Covid-19 en América Latina

COVID-19 and The Business of News

Researchers across the University of Oxford across disciplines are at the forefront of global efforts to understand the coronavirus (COVID-19) – for a selection of latest articles, see http://www.ox.ac.uk/coronavirus-research

With the authorization of the Oxford Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, we published the recent article by its Director, Professor Rasmus Nielsen