Connecting Boston with Latin America
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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
Category: COVID May 2021
The Endurance of Age
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Growing old in the hills of Nueva Esperanza, southeast of Lima, Peru, has never been easy, even before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. This settlement in the district of Villa María del Triunfo was established in a sandy area in the 1950s as a solution to the housing…
The Challenges of One Nonprofit During Covid-19
The first time I realized I could offer photos to people who had endured more than I could even imagine was when I was 22 years old and living in Egypt as a freelance photojournalist. A…
O Estrangeiro No Meu Celular: Conducting Remote Research in a Community of Self-Construction
The photograph below captures afternoon sun shining down over hundreds of homes that step quickly up an urban hill. The buildings are constructed of terracotta bricks and concrete piers and clad with a varied palette of
Colombia’s Young People: Facing Bullets for Their Beliefs
Eyes on COVID-19 - Category: "COVID May 2021" Colombia’s Young People: Facing Bullets...
Boats of Hope
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In May 2020, almost a year ago, as Covid-19 spread across the Amazon, it took nurse obstetrician Elizabeth Martel Fernández about 14 hours to reach the hospital from the community of Juancito in the…
The Venezuelan Gold Rush
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Control by armed criminal groups, sexual abuse of women and children, slavery, child labor, mercury poisoning, malaria outbreaks, malnutrition, torture, forced disappearances, forced
