Hilary Goodfriend

2 months ago | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Interview by Daniel Denvir This is part two of a three-part series on the history and present of Central America with Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar. The interview picks up where we left off in part one amid the revolutionary armed struggles against military oligarchic regimes, struggles that took off in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Those regimes responded with brutal violence against the people aided and abetted by the United States.

2 months ago | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Interview by Daniel Denvir This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in conversation with Daniel Denvir on The Dig, a Jacobin Radio podcast. It is also a history of American near-empire, tracing its impact from the mid-nineteenth century onward.

Feb 22, 2025 | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

The last fifteen years have seen tremendous political upheaval in Central America. El Salvador has fallen under a repressive, authoritarian regime, while Honduras has liberated itself from one; President Daniel Ortega has increasingly isolated himself from former Sandinista allies in Nicaragua; and in Guatemala, a popular tide of outrage against an entrenched ruling class saw an unlikely social democrat take the presidency.

Nov 27, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Skip to main content Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. BiographiesHilary Goodfriend is a postdoctoral researcher at the Geography Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.

Oct 2, 2024 | commondreams.org | Hilary Goodfriend

This week Mexico's former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, handed over the reins to Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally in his Morena party and the country's first female head of state. While López Obrador is leaving office with soaring approval ratings, and has overseen significant reductions in poverty and unemployment, recent articles and op-eds use terms like "authoritarian" and "autocratic" to describe his legacy.