Julia Young

3 weeks ago | americasquarterly.org | Gema Kloppe-Santamaría |Julia Young

Gema Kloppe-SantamaríaReading Time: 7 minutesKloppe-Santamaría is a Nicaraguan-born sociologist and historian specializing in violence, crime, and gender in Mexico and Central America. She is an associate research professor of Latin American History at George Washington University and a lecturer of Sociology at University College Cork. Author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020).

Feb 10, 2025 | theconversation.com | Julia Young |Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

For many observers of the 2024 US presidential election, Donald Trump’s ability to harness so much of the Latino vote remains one of the more puzzling issues. Latino voters – men in particular – swung decisively towards Trump last November: increasing by 16 points from 2016 to 42% of the bloc in 2024. This despite Trump’s consistent history of antagonistic remarks about Latino immigrants.