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Recent Articles
Cultivating Resilience in Puerto Rico: Harvesting Fields of Change
As a born and raised Puerto Rican, my journey has always been intertwined with my homeland’s vibrant hues and resilient spirit.
Crime and Punishment in the Americas
As 2024 ushered in, newly-elected Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa issued a state of emergency in his country, citing a wave of gang violence spurred by the prison escape of a local criminal leader with ties to Mexico’s ruthless Sinaloa Cartel.
A Review of San Fernando: Última Parada, Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas
One of Mexico’s best investigative journalists, Marcela Turati, takes readers to terrorized and traumatized San Fernando, a town known for dozens of mass graves, and exposes the depths of criminal brutality and official corruption that hid the bodies and the truth for years.
From Our Current Issue
The Impact of Soybeans in Argentina and Beyond: A Double-Edged Sword?
[English + Español]
What have been the impacts of the sweeping expansion of soybean production in South America, particularly in Argentina?
The Exploration of Rare Earth Minerals: Preservation of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Indigenous leader Txai Suruí’s speech during the UN COP Climate Conference (COP 26) in 2021 generated a profound impact and even became a topic for the national education exam (ENEM) in Brazil:
The Chiapaneco: Mayan Oral History of a Climate Disaster
On the steep, westernmost slopes of the Chuchumatanes mountains in Guatemala, a string of villages nestled between forests and cornfields make up the Mam Mayan town of San Juan Atitán.
Spotlight
Perspectives in Times of Change
Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.
Women CEOs in Latin America: Overcoming obstacles, navigating through challenges
I first arrived in Latin America in 1997, and since then, I’ve been involved in education and the development of leadership and governance issues in the region. During these 27 years—12 of them from Spain—I have had the opportunity to interact with leaders from the region, the private and public sectors, multinationals and small and medium-sized enterprises, and various industries.
Alvarado, Arbenz, Arévalo: The Repair of Guatemala
Almost exactly 500 years ago Hernán Cortés dispatched his brother-in-arms Pedro de Alvarado from newly subdued Tenochtitlán to conquer Guatemala. Violent and monumentally willful, Alvarado was a key lieutenant in the Spanish Crown’s conquest of Cuba in 1511 and Cortés’ deputy in defeating Moctezuma’s empire in 1521.
Safety For Whom? The Cost of El Salvador’s Latest Quest for Peace
On January 3, 2024, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele ordered the destruction of San Salvador’s Monument of Reconciliation, an enormous sculpture on the west side of the capital that had been inaugurated in 2017 under Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) President Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Intended to celebrate 25 years since the signing of the Peace Accords, which brought El Salvador’s civil war to an end, the monument featured two bronze figures—an FMLN fighter and a soldier with arms interlocked and releasing a flock of aluminum pigeons.
StudEnt Views
Los Vuelos de La Muerte: Forced Disappearance in Mexico
The first time I heard the word desaparecido—disappeared, a missing person— was in my high school Spanish class as we learned about the Dirty War in Argentina.
Upending the Archive: Notes from Researching Third World Ties in Brazilian Cinema Novo
I made a movie in Africa because I knew that it was time to break down the self-isolation in which various Third World cinemas exist.
Roots in Rhythm: Exploring Activism in Mapuche Punk Music
Environmental activism meets punk music in the Mapuche community of Chile.
Book ReviewS
A Review of Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics
In Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics, Carol Hess provides a nuanced exploration of the Brooklyn-born composer and conductor Aaron Copland (1900–1990), who served as a cultural diplomat in Latin America during multiple tours.
A Review of El populismo en América Latina. La pieza que falta para comprender un fenómeno global
In 1946, during a campaign event in Argentina, then-candidate for president Juan Domingo Perón formulated a slogan, “Braden or Perón,” with which he could effectively discredit his opponents and position himself as a defender of national dignity against a foreign power.
A Review of Born in Blood and Fire
The fourth edition of Born in Blood and Fire is a concise yet comprehensive account of the intriguing history of Latin America and will be followed this year by a fifth edition.
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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