Category: Student Views

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The verraquera of Colombian women knows no bounds. This was the message left with me by the March 30 symposium, “Empowering Dreams: 1st symposium in honor to Colombian women at Harvard.”

In the heart of Chicago, where I grew up, amidst the towering shadows of adversity, the lingering shadows of generational demons and the aroma of temptation, the key to the gateway of resilience and determination was inherited. The streets of my childhood neighborhood became, for many, prisons of poverty, plundering, crime and poor opportunity.

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Cusco stands as one of the most culturally and ecologically captivating regions globally.

When I heard the news about my upcoming trip to Mexico, a surge of excitement coursed through me, and I immediately felt the urge to share this exhilarating news with my close friends and family.

I zip up my raincoat and turn on my headlamp as we tread along a damp trail in El Yunque National Rainforest, Puerto Rico.

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With sweat trickling down my forehead, I meditated on the question: What does motivation look like?

As a born and raised Puerto Rican, my journey has always been intertwined with my homeland’s vibrant hues and resilient spirit.

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.

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.

Environmental activism meets punk music in the Mapuche community of Chile.

I have spent the majority of my academic life within the world of Mathematics.

“Do you think I can come dance with you at the patron saint festivities, even though I’m going to study in the United States?”

The words of a Venezuelan woman living in one of the humanitarian shelters that receives refugees and migrants in the city of Boa Vista, in the state of Roraima, in northern Brazil, stuck with me…

While researching how to get to the town of Leymebamba, Peru, where I would be working in the community museum for the summer, I was met with three options.

The relationship between Mexicans and water, spanning from their pre-Hispanic history to the present metropolitan era, has profoundly shaped Mexico City’s development.

Nächste Station: Dammtor. The automated voice caught my attention as the S-Bahn train slowed to a stop under an imposing overhang of steel and glass.

I must confess that when we picked up a car in Salvador, on the coast of the Brazilian state of Bahia, to drive towards the city of Canudos, I didn’t really know what I would find.

Two years ago, I attended the Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) Symposium and was captured by the students presenting about informal street markets, religious pilgrimages and the transportation and sale of gasoline throughout Mexico.

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We’re sitting at an empty restaurant in Guatemala City when our server asks a reasonable question: “Who the hell is this Arévalo guy?” Someone yells back from the kitchen: “Probably another corrupt thief.”