From Charnel-House to Breadbasket: Legacies of South America’s Forgotten Holocaust
Jaime Litvak, March 12, 2025
In the 1860s, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay decimated Paraguay’s population in a genocidal, scorched-earth military campaign known today as the War of the Triple Alliance. Jaime Litvak argues that Paraguay's defeat in the war played a key role in thwarting autonomous economic development in post-Independence Latin America. Read Article.
Galeano in Mogadishu: Sheep and the Emergent Geography of Gulf Capitalisms
Jaime Litvak, June 7, 2024
Adapting radical Latin American theories of economic geography, Jaime Litvak argues that a regionally-centered, extractive economic subsystem links the Arab Gulf and northeast Africa. Read Article.