Marieke Riethof is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American politics at the University of Liverpool. She is President of the Society for Latin American Studies in 2023-25. Her latest publications include Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil: Between Militancy and Moderation and various articles on socio-environmental conflicts, human rights, and foreign policy in Brazil. Her other research interests focus on Latin American solidarity networks and political activism in exile in the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular focus on Chile, Argentina and Brazil.