Rethinking Latin America's Revolutionary Left: The Chilean MIR Fifty Years Later

Recorded October 27, 2015

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2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Chile’s MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, or Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Dr. Schlotterbeck sheds light on how grassroots organizing strategies endured despite the defeat of the Latin American Left’s vanguard politics.

Marian Schlotterbeck is an assistant professor of history at UC Davis, where she teaches courses on modern Latin America, social revolutions, and human rights.