GOLD, OIL AND AVOCADOS: A RECENT HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA IN SIXTEEN COMMODITIES
Book ID/图书代码： 08885021C00001
English Summary/英文概要： The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America--from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia--but to understand what happened, ask first where your quinoa and lithium batteries came from...The 21st century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction.
Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals what oxen have to do with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, how quinoa explains the mob that descended on Evo Morales, and why oil is the culprit behind the protracted coup in Venezuela. In addition to the usual suspects like gold and bananas which underscored the original plunder of the Americas, Robinson also shows how a new generation of valuable resources—like coltan for smartphones, lithium for electric cars, and niobium for SpaceX rockets—have become important players in the fate of Latin America and geopolitical tensions in the decades to come.
In Gold, Oil, and Avocados, Robinson takes readers from the salt plains of Chile to the depths of the Amazonian jungle to stitch together the story of Latin America’s last decade, showing how the imperial plunder of the past carries on today under a new name.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在過去的十年中，拉丁美洲發生了重大的政治動盪——從巴西到智利，從委內瑞拉到玻利維亞——但要瞭解發生了什麼，首先要問問藜麥和鋰電池是來自哪裡......
2世紀初拉美國家看似有個樂觀的開始，推動減少貧困和增加國家財富計劃的左傾領導人正準備驗收成果——但隨著青壯世代逐漸被青少年取代，他們開始像骨牌一樣倒下。這場“粉紅浪潮”(Pink Tide指從1998年查維茲當選委內瑞拉總統後，超過10個拉美國家陸續由左翼或中間偏左政黨上臺的盛況。)的夢想去哪兒了？看看拉丁美洲剝奪公民權的罪魁禍首：資源豐富的土地和不擇手段的開採。
作者以16個代表商品逐一講述這段近代歷史，揭示了牛與巴西總統Jair Bolsonaro 的崛起有什麼關係，用藜麥如何解釋為何前玻利維亞總統Evo Morales會被襲擊，以及為什麼石油是委內瑞拉長期政變背後的罪魁禍首。另外除了最常被掠奪的黃金和香蕉等外，作者還說明瞭新一代寶貴資源——如智慧手機的鈳鉭鐵礦Coltan、電動車的鋰和火箭的鈮等礦物如何成為重要的商品。在拉丁美洲的命運中，不僅隨著能源轉型導致礦產價格飆升，民眾仍受大宗民生商品價格的擺佈。
作者將帶讀者從智利的鹽田到亞馬遜叢林的深處，將拉丁美洲過去十年的故事拼接在一起，展示過去的帝國掠奪如何以新的名義進行。
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About the Author/作者介绍： ANDY ROBINSON is a roving reporter for the Barcelona daily, La Vanguardia. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he moved to Spain in the eighties where he wrote for The Guardian, The New Statesman, City Limits, Ajoblanco, El Mon, and others. He is a regular contributor to The Nation and has published two previous Spanish-language books, Un reportero en la montaña mágica (Ariel, 2013) and Off the road, miedo, asco y esperanza en América (Ariel, 2016).
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