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Learning Nahuatl in the Community
My experience in the Huasteca Veracruzana could be characterized by the relations and friendships I held and will hold dearly in my heart…
A Review of Recentralisation in Colombia
During the last few decades, decentralization processes—the transference of power, resources and responsibilities from national to subnational governments—
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Forbidden Embrace
In 2020, the pandemic crisis has hit the Brazilian Amazon hard. Indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 and its severe consequences, due to historical and socio-economic factors aggravated by the persistence of colonial practices in their native...
Connecting Boston with Latin America
English + Español
From the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, our social, academic and cultural gatherings took a 180 degree turn. The conferences we used to go to and the spaces for networking had to
Brazil’s Vaccinated Democracy
In March 2021, former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a current presidential candidate, posed a pointed question in a speech lambasting President Jair Bolsonaro’s Covid-19 response. “Where is our beloved Zé Gotinha?” Zé Gotinha is not a respected public health expert or crisis manager
Spotlight
Perspectives in the Era of COVID
Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations during this new phase of the pandemic in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.
Editor’s Letter – Eyes on COVID-19
Editor's Letter Documenting Covid-19 It’s been two years, two months and some days since we published Olivia Liendo’s powerful article “With Covid-19, We are All Immigrants.” Relating how friends, family and strangers came together to help her mother in Venezuela...
A Review of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle
James Loxton’s Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle makes very important, original contributions to the study of…
A Review of Cuban Privilege: the Making of Immigrant Inequality in America by Susan Eckstein
If anyone had any doubts that Cubans were treated exceptionally well by the United States immigration and welfare authorities, relative to other immigrant groups and even relative to …
StudEnt Views
Combating Learning Loss
At the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), we take our learning beyond Harvard’s campus.
For the First Time
When I walk barefoot in the Arizona desert, I make sure to dig my feet into the sand. The act is vulnerable, not knowing what has been buried and hidden between specks.
Safe Harbor
The sounds of containers knocking against one another wake me up. A blue light pierces the sheer curtains…
Book ReviewS
A Review of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle
James Loxton’s Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle makes very important, original contributions to the study of…
A Review of Cuban Privilege: the Making of Immigrant Inequality in America by Susan Eckstein
If anyone had any doubts that Cubans were treated exceptionally well by the United States immigration and welfare authorities, relative to other immigrant groups and even relative to …
A Review of The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America
This is how the adventure of the 25-year-old from Kansas begins: “I began to dream dreams, extravagant dreams. I would stay here in this city of the Aztecs and the Conquistadors ..
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