Category: Student Views

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.

Ceremonial Dance

“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?”

Green Infrastructure

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

Collecting History

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.

To Bloom Again: The Night Semilla Took Guatemala by Surprise

English + Español
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.”

The Virus of Inferiority: The Puerto Rican Status Question

“¡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.

Ecuador’s Exodus Migration: The Sole Solution for Despair

English + Español
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.

Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish: How Dominicans Think about the Differences

English + Español
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.

A breeze of politics

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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