The Historias podcast is a weekly program featuring scholars, journalists, and activists discussing cutting edge research and offering perceptive observations on current events associated with Latin American and Caribbean societies. If you are looking for smart and inviting conversation on a wide variety of issues and more, this show is for you.
Historias is a digital media project from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).
En este episodio de Historias Podcast conversamos con la historiadora Elena McGrath sobre su libroThe Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City. A través dela experiencia de las familias mineras de Corocoro, McGrath examina las profundas transformaciones que siguieron a la Revolución Nacional de 1952 y la construcción del “ciudadano trabajador” como figura central del proyecto revolucionario. Hablamos de la expansión de derechos sociales, del papel de COMIBOL en la vida de trabajadores, mujeres y niños, y de las luchas de las familias mineras por defender esas conquistas. La conversación aborda también las jerarquías de género, clase y raza que atravesaron el proyecto nacionalista y el progresivo debilitamiento de la ciudadanía obrera bajo los gobiernos militares, invitándonos a repensar tanto los logros como los límites y legados de la Revolución Boliviana.
1 Sept 2026
Rachel Newman - The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
En The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite (Publicado por la Universidad de California, 2026), la historiadora Rachel Grace Newman reconstruye más de un siglo de políticas de educación en el extranjero para explorar la formación de una élite mexicana cosmopolita. El libro muestra cómo estudiar en Europa y Estados Unidos funcionó a la vez como mecanismo de distinción y reproducción de jerarquías sociales y como una inversión nacional asociada a las promesas de modernización, desarrollo y progreso. Newman examina así las tensiones entre privilegio, cosmopolitismo y proyecto nacional que atravesaron más de cien años de movilidad estudiantil mexicana.
20 Apr 2026
Los golpes de estado en América Latina, con Sebastián Carassai y Kevin Coleman
In March 2026, we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. To reflect
on its significance within a broader regional frame, we speak with historians Sebastián Carassai
and Kevin Coleman, editors of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.
Their work adopts a comparative approach across cases such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina,
and Central America, examining the forces that drove these coups, the roles of the United States
and local actors, and the forms of social support that sustained them. In doing so, it challenges
the idea that these coups can be treated as a single phenomenon and instead highlights the
distinct national dynamics that shaped authoritarian rule and its legacies.
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Aldo Marchesi
Amanda Waterhouse
Thomas Field
Fabricio Prado
Alex Borucki
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Carmen Soliz and Edward Brudney host the show. Published by SECOLAS.
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