{"id":22167,"date":"2026-04-20T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=22167"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:35:50","slug":"bisa-bfpg-undergraduate-network-event-the-politics-of-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2026\/04\/bisa-bfpg-undergraduate-network-event-the-politics-of-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"BISA\/BFPG Undergraduate Network event: The politics of Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BISA\/BFPG Undergraduate network was delighted to host another fascinating event on the Politics of Latin America at The University of Manchester. Bringing together a fantastic panel of cross-disciplinary academics from across the region, the event discussed the challenges and opportunities for the region, from domestic politics to the relationship with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The event was chaired by UGN committee member Aliza Dufournet. Other speakers included:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Claudio Navarro Gonzalez \u2014 Teaching Associate in the Department of Economics at The University of Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Ignacio Aguilo \u2014 Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies and the Co-Director of the\u00a0Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\u00a0at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Lopez Moreno Flores \u2014 PhD researcher in Development Economics and Policy Management at the University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p>Mariana Hernandez-Montilla \u2014 PhD researcher In Development Policy and Management at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all those who attended and contributed to a fantastic event.<\/p>\n<p>You can sign up to the network, or find out more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisa.ac.uk\/members\/ugn\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BISA\/BFPG Undergraduate network was delighted to host another fascinating event on the Politics of Latin America at The University of Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":22168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,173,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-event","category-upcoming-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}