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The Long Reverberation: How the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Years Shaped Latin America
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) did not end on the Jarama or the Ebro; it spilled across the Atlantic and took up residence in classrooms, publishing houses, barracks, parishes, ports, and party headquarters from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego. The Franco regime that followed became, at once, a source of exiles who rebuilt Latin American culture and a distant mirror admired by certain strongmen. Out of that contradiction—a defeated republic fertilizing democratic life abroad, and a surviving dictatorship flattering authoritarian imaginations—Latin America inherited institutions, habits, and cautions that still matter. What follows is a map of those legacies: intellectual, diplomatic, cultural, migratory, and political.
After Ten Months: What We've Learned About Power, Policing, and the Word We Hesitate to Use
Ten months into Trump's second term, we have enough evidence to test the term "fascist" in practice. Not by tallying tweets, but by looking at state power: who it targets, how it moves, and what it leaves behind. Three arenas tell the story: immigration enforcement, elections, and deployments as leverage.