Pub Date : 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251324510
Veronica Serafini Geoghegan
Understanding the current situation of Paraguayan contributory social security—particularly, its low coverage, institutional fragmentation, and socioeconomic segmentation—requires considering the role of economic elites in policy implementation. Given the potential effect and influence social protection can have on people’s security, economic autonomy, and income redistribution, this social protection policy poses a risk to sectors in power. A rentier economic elite who benefits from the weakness of public institutions and social vulnerability has little incentive to incorporate this policy into its agenda and contribute to the strengthening of the pension system. This paper seeks to address some elements that help explain the weakness of the contributory system in terms of the influence exercised by the Paraguayan economic elite.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251327410
Joel E. Correia
This article assesses the state of Indigenous rights in Paraguay through the year 2022 to show how latent authoritarianism and agrarian oligarchies threaten to roll back ongoing efforts to support the country's democratic transition. Recent civil society efforts to map Indigenous lands and make georeferenced data about those lands free to access online presuppose that greater transparency about the location and extent of titled and claimed lands will protect communities from dispossession and violence. Mapping efforts like these create demo-cartographic imaginaries—attempts to envision democratic futures through the promise of transparency captured in counter-mapping practices. Combining a case study with observations from field research, it is argued that tensions between the demo-cartographic promise and the resurgent authoritarianism evident in open violence against Indigenous peoples reveal much about how land is simultaneously a site of oligarchic power and the seed of social discontent to challenge that power.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251327411
Michael Shterenshis
The literature on Paraguay’s political regime labels it as an incomplete or flawed democracy without systematically analyzing how Paraguay is actually governed. The concept of multicracy can describe Paraguay’s political organization and analyze Stroessner’s rule and the post-Stronato period. The governability of Paraguay’s democracy is weak, various kratiae (powers) intervene in policymaking, and the state's regime is an unstable multicracy consisting of the presidential autocracy, the Congress partocracy, democratic institutions, plutocracy, inefficient bureaucracy, theocracy, technocracy, and still-in-power aristocracy. Further political development suggests a redistribution of power between the kratiae by changing their power percentage within a power pie.
{"title":"Thirty-five years after Stroessner: Multicracy in Paraguay","authors":"Michael Shterenshis","doi":"10.1177/0094582x251327411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x251327411","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on Paraguay’s political regime labels it as an incomplete or flawed democracy without systematically analyzing how Paraguay is actually governed. The concept of multicracy can describe Paraguay’s political organization and analyze Stroessner’s rule and the post-Stronato period. The governability of Paraguay’s democracy is weak, various kratiae (powers) intervene in policymaking, and the state's regime is an unstable multicracy consisting of the presidential autocracy, the Congress partocracy, democratic institutions, plutocracy, inefficient bureaucracy, theocracy, technocracy, and still-in-power aristocracy. Further political development suggests a redistribution of power between the kratiae by changing their power percentage within a power pie.","PeriodicalId":47390,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Perspectives","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143661247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-15DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251324509
Andrew Nickson, Peter Lambert
This article examines Paraguay’s lack of progress in meeting the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the conceptual framework of state capture. It argues that the current model of economic development, based primarily on soya and meat production, is unsustainable in economic, social, and environmental terms and almost exclusively serves the interests of a small elite. The example of three interrelated SDGs is used to show how elites have used state capture to defend this model and block the structural reforms required to attain Paraguay’s SDGs. Conceptually, it argues that i) the incorporation of state capture, currently absent from analysis of SDGs, is fundamental to understanding the relationship between agricultural elites and sustainable development; and ii) that a broader definition of state capture, to include legal as well as illegal methods, is needed to understand the reality of its operational mechanism and the extent of its impact.
{"title":"State Capture and Elite Resistance to the Sustainable Development Goals in Paraguay","authors":"Andrew Nickson, Peter Lambert","doi":"10.1177/0094582x251324509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x251324509","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Paraguay’s lack of progress in meeting the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the conceptual framework of state capture. It argues that the current model of economic development, based primarily on soya and meat production, is unsustainable in economic, social, and environmental terms and almost exclusively serves the interests of a small elite. The example of three interrelated SDGs is used to show how elites have used state capture to defend this model and block the structural reforms required to attain Paraguay’s SDGs. Conceptually, it argues that i) the incorporation of state capture, currently absent from analysis of SDGs, is fundamental to understanding the relationship between agricultural elites and sustainable development; and ii) that a broader definition of state capture, to include legal as well as illegal methods, is needed to understand the reality of its operational mechanism and the extent of its impact.","PeriodicalId":47390,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Perspectives","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143635691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-15DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251325235
Jamie C. Gagliano
As the weight of the agro-industrial model of agriculture becomes abundantly evident, the role of seeds inserted into either capitalist or agroecological production models has become a central way that scholars and activists conceptualize food sovereignty struggles. This is no less the case in Paraguay, where peasant and Indigenous movements like CONAMURI articulate that having seeds is a political question. While often such politics are conceptualized in terms of land, I utilize multi-scalar seed geographies to argue that politics over seeds are also a body politics that contest agro-industry on the grounds of health, ecological changes, and generational reproduction.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251321834
Alfonso Gonzales Toribio
This article is about Central American asylum seekers from the perspective of dependency theory and Gramscian international relations. It argues that Northern Central American asylum seekers are fleeing the contradictions of the hegemonic US-led neoliberal development model that depends on migration and remittances as its main source of hard currency. This article is grounded in structural/conjectural analysis and supported with quantitative methods. I suggest that the increase in asylum seekers is a function of US aid through the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), which contributes to the conditions that people flee and to US apprehensions of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran nationals, leaving would-be migrants no choice but to apply for asylum. I conclude that the security and development model imposed on the region under the conditions of US hegemony, and US migration control policies designed to apprehend and deport asylum seekers are producing the very crisis they purport to resolve.
{"title":"Dependent Neoliberalism, US Aid and Central American Asylum Seekers","authors":"Alfonso Gonzales Toribio","doi":"10.1177/0094582x251321834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x251321834","url":null,"abstract":"This article is about Central American asylum seekers from the perspective of dependency theory and Gramscian international relations. It argues that Northern Central American asylum seekers are fleeing the contradictions of the hegemonic US-led neoliberal development model that depends on migration and remittances as its main source of hard currency. This article is grounded in structural/conjectural analysis and supported with quantitative methods. I suggest that the increase in asylum seekers is a function of US aid through the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), which contributes to the conditions that people flee and to US apprehensions of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran nationals, leaving would-be migrants no choice but to apply for asylum. I conclude that the security and development model imposed on the region under the conditions of US hegemony, and US migration control policies designed to apprehend and deport asylum seekers are producing the very crisis they purport to resolve.","PeriodicalId":47390,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Perspectives","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251319025
Joseph Wiltberger
The US recently implemented novel spatial strategies of border control that repel asylum seekers to Mexico, forcing them to await the opportunity to request asylum or asylum proceedings. The turning back and expulsion of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border transforms northern Mexican border cities into spaces of extraterritorial containment where asylum seekers form informal migrant camps and face exposure to violence, misinformation, and hindrances to due process. A spatial analytical lens and focus on Central American asylum seekers reveals how these strategies further endanger asylum seekers’ lives, stand in the way of humanitarian protection, and are met with resistance. By improving understanding of the threats to safety that asylum seekers face in and beyond their countries of origin, further research into the situation of repelled asylum seekers in Mexico should inform asylum proceedings and border policies.Estados Unidos implementó recientemente novedosas estrategias espaciales de control fronterizo que repelen a los solicitantes de asilo a México, obligándolos a esperar la oportunidad de solicitar asilo o procedimientos de asilo. El regreso y la expulsión de solicitantes de asilo en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México transforma las ciudades fronterizas del norte de México en espacios de contención extraterritorial donde los solicitantes de asilo forman campamentos informales de migrantes y enfrentan exposición a violencia, desinformación y obstáculos al debido proceso. Una lente analítica espacial y un enfoque en los solicitantes de asilo centroamericanos revela cómo estas estrategias ponen en peligro aún más las vidas de los solicitantes de asilo, obstaculizan la protección humanitaria y encuentran resistencia. Al mejorar la comprensión de las amenazas a la seguridad que enfrentan los solicitantes de asilo dentro y fuera de sus países de origen, una mayor investigación sobre la situación de los solicitantes de asilo rechazados en México serviría para mejor los procedimientos de asilo y las políticas fronterizas.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251320083
Sarah England
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Pub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251321830
Juan Iglesias, Rut Bermejo
The Spanish asylum system and refugee reception program demonstrate persistent problems involving initial access to asylum and the processing of applications; access to assistance from the reception system; and the process of integration of asylum seekers, which is characterized by social segregation. This article analyzes these issues and seeks to explain them by looking beyond the immediate circumstances of the substantial increase in applications, mainly from Latin Americans, that has taken place in Spain since 2015. The deficiencies of the asylum system are explained in terms of the restrictive refugee paradigm employed by Spain and the European Union as a whole, as well as the development of a restricted, isolated reception model focused more on the initial assistance process than on social integration. Our analysis is based on two recent studies and provides empirical evidence in an area of study that has been scarcely addressed in Spain.El sistema de asilo español y su programa de acogida presentan problemas persistentes relacionados con el acceso al asilo y la tramitación de las solicitudes, el acceso y la intervención del sistema de acogida, y los procesos de integración de los solicitantes, marcados por la segregación social. El artículo analiza dichos problemas, y trata de explicarlos yendo más allá de la coyuntura del fuerte crecimiento de las solicitudes ocurrido en España desde el año 2015, protagonizado principalmente por solicitantes latinoamericanos. Se apunta, así, que los déficits del asilo se explican por la existencia de un paradigma restrictivo del refugio en España y en la UE, y el desarrollo de un modelo de acogida restringido, aislado y centrado en el proceso de atención inicial más que en la integración. El análisis se apoya en dos investigaciones realizadas recientemente, aportando evidencia empírica a un área de estudio poco estudiada en España.
西班牙的庇护制度和难民接收计划显示出在最初获得庇护和处理申请方面持续存在的问题；获得接收系统的帮助；寻求庇护者的融合过程，其特点是社会隔离。本文分析了这些问题，并试图通过超越2015年以来西班牙申请（主要来自拉丁美洲）大幅增加的直接情况来解释这些问题。根据西班牙和整个欧洲联盟所采用的限制性难民模式，以及发展一种限制的、孤立的接收模式来解释庇护制度的缺陷，这种模式更多地侧重于最初的援助过程，而不是社会融合。我们的分析基于最近的两项研究，并在西班牙几乎没有涉及的研究领域提供了经验证据。“援助系统”español通过“援助方案”提出了“持续存在的问题”，“援助系统”通过“tramitación援助方案”，“援助系统”通过“intervención援助系统”，“援助过程”通过“integración援助方案”，“援助系统”通过“segregación社会”。《拉丁美洲贫困救济的主要问题分析》（artículo），《拉丁美洲贫困救济的主要问题分析》（más），《拉丁美洲贫困救济的主要问题分析》（España），《拉丁美洲贫困救济的主要问题分析》（año）。Se apunta, asi,洛杉矶赤字del asilo Se explican关于地认同联合国paradigma restrictivo del refugio y en la问题在西班牙,y el desarrollo de联合国莫德罗de acogida restringido, aislado y centrado en el proceso de atencion调整mas, en la integracion。El análisis se apoya en dos investigaciones realizadas recientemente， aptando evidence empírica和un área de estudio poco estudiada en España。
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Pub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1177/0094582x251319024
María Dolores París Pombo
Based on a critical geopolitical analysis, this paper addresses the convergence of refugee policies and migration control policies in southern Mexico within the framework of border externalization and internalization. I posit that the border process in this region responds to both political and military interests espoused by the U.S. as well as Mexican governments. The refugee system is a device though which mobility is controlled, and the militarization and securitization of Mexico’s southern border can be legitimized. One consequence of this process is the indefinite blocking of migrants and asylum seekers in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, and its current transformation into a “city-prison.”A partir de un análisis geopolítico crítico, este artículo aborda la convergencia de las políticas de refugiados y de control migratorio en el sur de México en el marco de la externalización e internalización de las fronteras. Postulo que el proceso fronterizo en esta región responde a intereses tanto políticos como militares propugnados por los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y México. El sistema de refugiados es un dispositivo mediante el cual se controla la movilidad y se puede legitimar la militarización y securitización de la frontera sur de México. Una consecuencia de este proceso es el bloqueo indefinido de personas migrantes y solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Tapachula, Chiapas, y su actual transformación en una “ciudad-prisión.”
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