Fifth International Colloquium. Thinking about the Right in Latin America
The event took place on July 23, 24 and 25 Fifth International Colloquium. Thinking about the Right in Latin America, organized by the University of the Republic (Uruguay) with the participation of the CLACSO Working Group Contemporary Right-wing: Dictatorships and Democracies.
In 2024, we commemorate a decade since the first colloquium dedicated exclusively to studying the right wing in Latin America, around which a broad network of academics has formed in various parts of the world. The events held in France (2014), Argentina (2016), Brazil (2018), and Mexico (2022) have contributed to fostering dialogue among researchers and promoting the development of various groups dedicated to the analysis of the right wing from a historical perspective, at different scales and using multiple approaches and methodologies.
This edition is intended as a continuation of the work carried out in previous colloquia, coinciding with a new phase of right-wing expansion in several Latin American and European countries. Among other manifestations, this phenomenon has been expressed through the rise of right-wing leaders without party affiliation, an accelerated shift of electorates toward the right and far right, and the emergence of movements that celebrate past dictatorships and oppose the promotion of new rights, such as same-sex marriage and adoption, the decriminalization of abortion, and the legalization of marijuana use.
Over the past decade, the research agenda on right-wing movements has broadened and deepened, encompassing topics and issues from diverse perspectives, drawing on new sources and interdisciplinary methodologies. As in previous editions, the colloquium's outcomes are expected to contribute to a better understanding of the strategies, projects, imaginaries, and networks of a wide range of right-wing political and social actors throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Table 1 – Economic projects and neoliberal debates
Moderated by: Sabrina Álvarez (Uruguay)
RODRIGUEZ METRAL, Matías (Uruguay): From the region to the world: an approach to the transnational links of Uruguayan neoliberal economists (1955-1985)
CASALS, Marcelo (Chile): The battles for the economy. Global debates and disputes over the Chilean neoliberal experiment (1975-1983)
BAUZA, Luciana (Uruguay): To privatize or not to privatize? A debate from the '90s
VICENTE, Martín (Argentina): The Argentine-North American Forum, international politics and networks between the 1970s and 1990s
Table 2 – Fascist Networks, Recruitment and Militancy
Moderated by: Gabriela Gomes (Argentina)
BERTONHA, João Fábio (Brazil): Fascists and Falangists of Latin America in the fascist wars. Italians and Spanish emigrants in the Ethiopian and Spanish Civil Wars, 1935-1939
VANNUCCHI, Marco Aurélio (Brazil): As social bases of integralism: historiography and propositions
MORANT I ARIÑO, Toni (Spain): Embora mulher I wish to contribute to the salvation of my homeland. A transnational look at the women of the Ação Integralista Brasileira
FIGUEREDO CABRERA, Katia (Spain): The National Revolutionary-Syndicalist Legion: the true face of Cuban fascism
Table 3 – Social and cultural policies of/in dictatorships
Moderated by: Franco Morosoli (Uruguay)
BERNÁ, Leonor (Uruguay): Education as an antibody to Marxism. The 1976 reform as an anti-subversive pedagogy
GOMES, Gabriela (Argentina): Housing in the social construction of Latin American dictatorships
ZIMMERMAN, Ana Carolina (Brazil): The anniversaries of the 1964 coup during the Brazilian military dictatorship and its political impact
CORREA MORALES, Javier (Uruguay): Right-wing movements in transition. Collaboration, electoral participation, anti-leftism, and justifications. The Luis Alberto de Herrera group of Durazno, 1981-1985
PANEL – The dictatorships of the Southern Cone, half a century later. Memory, history and historiography
Moderated by: Camilo López Burian (University of the Republic)
ERNESTO BOHOSLAVSKY (Centre national de la recherche scientifique – France / CONICET, Argentina) MAUD CHIRIO (Gustave Eiffel University, France)
MARCELO CASALS (Finis Terrae University, Chile)
MAGDALENA SKEWERS (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
Table 4 – Culture, imaginaries and visuality
Moderated by: Virginia Martinez (Uruguay)
ORTIZ ROMERO, Sergio (Mexico): Transnational anti-communism in the early Cold War: Mexican newsreels and Dibujos Animados SA (1948-1954)
JARA, Isabel (Chile): Pinochet-era costumbrismo: towards the common sense of the Chilean dictatorship
FERNÁNDEZ ESQUIVEL, Carolina Andrea (Mexico): The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) and the defense of press freedom against the communist threat in Latin America (1942-1959)
SAFERSTEIN, Ezekiel (Argentina): Production, circulation and mass distribution of The Black Book of the New Left
Table 5 – New Right-Wing Movements in National and Global Contexts
Moderated by: Pablo Ferreira (Uruguay)
CARDIM ROCHA, Joallan (Brazil): Past and Present of the Extrema Direita Boliviana: Do Falangismo Histérico ao Neofalangismo Cruceño
GIMÉNEZ, Maria Julia (Brazil): An Atlas Network Cartography in the Global South (2016-2024)
GALDEANO, Maria Luísa and KAYSEL, André (Brazil): A Reaction of the Chilean Radical Direita to the Proposal of a Plurinational State in the Constituinte Process of 2022
HERNÁNDEZ VICENCIO, Tania (Mexico): The Mexican right wing in the context of the Fourth Transformation (2018-2025)
Table 6 – Religion and Morality
Moderated by: Julieta De León (University of the Republic)
KING, Mark (Uruguay): The transnational anti-communist crusade of the Unification Church through the organization “Causa-Uruguay” (1981-1995)
COWAN, Benjamin (United States): A Family Affair: The Double-Edged Sword of Moral Panic and the Religious Right as ´Malignant Society´
ALBORNOZ, Celina (Argentina): It is the duty of all Catholics to fight against communism. Vatican vigilance over communism in Argentina during the first Peronist period
HERRÁN ÁVILA, Luis (United States): The revolution of the crusaders?: Underground and right-wing youth radicalism in 1970s Mexico
Table 7 Anti-communism, civil violence and state repression
Moderated by: Marcia González (University of the Republic)
ALCÁNTARA NAVARRO, Mónica (Argentina): Anti-communists and young people in Argentine universities. A proposal to analyze the actions of TACUARA, the Argentine Federation of Democratic Anti-communist Entities (FAEDA) and the National University Concentration (CNU), in the long sixties
SOSA, Álvaro (Uruguay): An approach to the study of anti-communist trade unionism in Cold War Uruguay. Actors, networks and itineraries
GARCÍA, Roberto (Uruguay): The prehistory of Operation Condor: Brazil, Uruguay and the secret police agreements of 1948
LÓPEZ CANTERA, Mercedes Fernanda (Argentina): The 1943 coup and the communist enemy in Argentina. Repression and classifications within the context of the world war
ADROVER, Fernando (Uruguay): Anti-communism and anti-Peronism in the origins of the Anti-Totalitarian Movement of Uruguay (1952-1953)
Table 8 – Intellectuals, culture and public action
Moderated by: Inés Cuadro (Uruguay)
MAIA, Tatyana (Brazil): Intellectuals and the Right in Brazil: The Revista Brasileira de Cultura and Conservative Modernism (1969-1974)
ODYSSIO, John (Mexico): From the Catholic anti-Peronist opposition to the dissemination of neoliberalism in Argentina: the political interventions of Raúl Lamuraglia and Alberto Benegas Lynch between 1945 and 1957
VISCARDI, Cláudia (Brazil): Francisco Campos and the paths of Brazilian life (1930-1942)
TOMAS, Luah (Canada): Rosalina Coelho Lisboa: The transnational story of a right-wing feminist in the Americas
Table 9 – The right wing and rights: networks and ideas
Moderated by: Marcela Schenck (Uruguay)
JARAMILLO, Juliana, BOTERO, Sandra; CORREA PINTO, Daniela (Colombia): Discourses in transformation: actors and networks in the anti-gender mobilization in Colombia
CALDEIRA NETO, Odilon (Brazil) and AXELROD, Ila (Great Britain): As direitas anti direitos no Brasil: itineraries and preliminary reading
STALLONE, Kiran (United States) and ZULVER, Julia (Sweden); PAYNE, Leigh (Great Britain): The Right Mobilizing Against Women's Rights in Latin America
LÓPEZ BURIAN, Camilo (Uruguay); FORTI, Steven (Spain); SANAHUJA, José Antonio (Spain): Far-right groups and transnational networks: (re)thinking from the perspective of global history
PANEL – Contemporary Latin American Right-Wing Movements: Analysis and Perspectives
Moderated by: Magdalena Broquetas (University of the Republic)
RODRIGO PATTO SÁ MOTTA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
GERARDO CAETANO (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
ERNESTO BOHOSLAVSKY (National Center for Scientific Research/CONICET)
MARIO SANTIAGO JIMÉNEZ (Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute, Mexico)
This event was supported by
Department of Political Science. Faculty of Social Sciences | Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences; Embassy of Spain in Uruguay | AECID | Spanish Cooperation. Culture Montevideo | CSIC Sectoral Commission for Scientific Research | General University of Minas Gerias | LHTPPresent Time History Laboratory | National University of General Sarmiento | Teaching | National Universitaire Champollion | CLACSO Latin American Council of Social Sciences | FRAMESPA. France Amériques Espagne Sociétés Pouvoirs Acteurs | RIGHT-WING LOGISTS | Mexican Government | CONAHCYT | Mora Institute
