Articles by Forrest Hylton
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Remaking Medellín
in NLR 44, March-April 2007, pp. 70-89
Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Colombia , Cities
Transformed from murder capital to corporate boom town, Medellín has been hailed as a rare urban success story for neo-conservatism in South America. The singular progression of Escobar and Uribe’s hometown—cattle-trading post, industrial centre, drug-trafficking hub, neoliberal Latin Mecca.
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The Landslide in Bolivia
in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 69-72
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Bolivia
The Left owes its December victory in Bolivia to the popular movements that have stymied water and gas privatizations since 2000. Forrest Hylton surveys the landscape ahead, and the militant formation of Morales’s running mate Álvaro García Linera.
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The Chequered Rainbow
in NLR 35, September-October 2005, pp. 40-64
Subjects: Bolivia , Movements
As tensions mount on the eve of national elections in Bolivia, a study of the longest insurrectionary cycle of any Latin American country, stretching from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The explosive fusion of ethnic and class aspirations in the newest round of risings, overthrowing two presidents in as many years.
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Colombia: An Evil Hour
in NLR 23, September-October 2003, pp. 51-93
Subjects: Colombia
The longue durée of Uribe’s Colombia, from its origins in the mid-19th century, through the Violencia of the postwar years, to the coming of today’s guerrillas, narco-traffickers and paramilitaries. Conditions and prospects of the latest campaign to wipe out armed insurgency against Latin America’s oldest ruling order.
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