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Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction

May 5, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Nicaragua, Nicaragua

In the ongoing process of exploring, making and re-making the modern world, some stake flags, others publish books—both being political constructions and assertions as part of larger institutional projects. Such is the case with Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews’ edited volume Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction. With contributions from nearly two dozen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnomusicologists and literary scholars…

Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba – a “Troika of Tyranny”?

May 5, 2019 | Looking Back at the Sandinista Revolution, Nicaragua

President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton recently applied this label to these three countries, while asserting that “it’s our hemisphere”. As a U.S. diplomat for more than 30 years, I had the opportunity to serve in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and to closely follow events in Cuba.

A Tale of Two Food Sovereignties

May 4, 2019 | Indigenous Rights, Food Security and Biodiversity, Nicaragua

I first learned of food sovereignty while I was completing my graduate work in Global Affairs at Rutgers University. I had developed an interest in agrarian and food movements, and particularly an agrarian movement of banana workers seeking justice after being exposed to…

The artistry of the Güegüence

May 1, 2019 | Focus on Culture, Nicaragua

English + Español
El Güegüence has accompanied me for years, first as the colorful childhood memory of a folklore presentation I saw in Nicaragua in the 1980s, before I left the country, and then, years later, as one of my preferred research topics as I pursued my doctorate in Romance…

Poetry

May 1, 2019 | Focus on Culture, Nicaragua

English + Español
Afterglow: Nicaragua, they tricked your children, or perhaps you tricked them yourself. You felt content and abundant in your foreign elite, in the whiteness of your ruling class…

Country: Nicaragua

Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction

Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba – a “Troika of Tyranny”?

A Tale of Two Food Sovereignties

The artistry of the Güegüence

Poetry