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.
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.
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.
“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.”
“¡Yo me iría a U.S.A. si pudiese!” “¡En Estados Unidos todo es mejor!” “Ay, si fuésemos un estado…” There is an illness amongst Puerto Ricans. Not an illness of bone or skin, of the blood or of the heart.
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Five Harvard students are experiencing Brazil first-hand.
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It hurts. It hurts. It hurts deeply, as if every fiber of my being were intent on resisting the relentless cycle that unfolds day after day, night after night, and even in the early hours in McAllen, Texas.
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What’s the relationship between Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish? This summer, I traveled to the Dominican Republic with a DRCLAS grant to conduct research for my thesis: a sociolinguistic study of Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish through the perceptions Dominicans have about their language use.
I was an international observer to the Organization of American States (OAS) Electoral Observation Mission in the Honduran general elections in 2021 as a student at the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. What I witnessed taught me to appreciate how the nuts and bolts of democratic development might be noisy and messy, but successful nonetheless.
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At my grandmother’s house in the rural town of El Santo, Villa Clara, I was in limbo. It was nearing noon, and I was anxiously awaiting a call from the head of Cuban security to obtain clearance.