@gabrielhetland.bsky.social is a friend, comrade, and helps me navigate what a leftist approach to Venezuelan politics should be. In this episode, we analyze the possibilities+ pitfalls of populist politics, and the history of left hegemony in a different political moment w lessons for the present.

Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here

Insurers of last resort are state-enabled programs meant to provide insurance to properties that insurers refuse to cover. And yet in our @cplusc.bsky.social report, we find these plans are ill designed to meet their policy objectives, and are instead run by and for the private insurance sector 🧵

La mitad de los pagos iniciales para el canal de Panamá se hicieron en inversiones de JP Morgan en finca raíz en NYC, y ahora es un promotor inmobiliario Neoyorquino quien busca quitarle el canal a los panameños... Me encantó colaborar con @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

I went on an ill-fated hike that kept me from hosting this episode; the silver lining is that i got to hear Sebastian Solarte interview Prof. Herrera as a listener, and learned SO much about what makes successful social movements+policy change, esp. around environmental harms. Check it out!👇🔥

The antics of the global populist right are intended to make us forget that theirs is a project of class+racial domination + that we must counter it on those grounds. @bhbradlow.bsky.social reminds us of the power of fighting for equality at the scale of the city +that a more just world is possible!

El dolor de la diáspora consiste en sentir destruidas nuestras comunidades; sentí a lo largo de estas conversaciones que el DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS nos va a ayudar a tejerlas de nuevo <3 Espero que les guste este episodio, buena excusa para escuchar mucho reggaetón

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

The possibility of resistance in this moment requires that we understand why so many Latinos supported Trump+possibly the most racist and explicitly imperialist iteration of the Republican party. On #Sur-Urbano, @williamcallison.bsky.social + I talk to Prof. Daniel HoSang on the multi-racial right.

Siento que las posibilidades de resistencia a este momento tan desolador requieren que entendamos por qué tantos latinos apoyaron a Trump, y el fenómeno de la derecha multi-racial. No se pierdan a @williamcallison.bsky.social y Daniel HoSang en #Sur_Urbano