About the Author
José Morales Arilla is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences. His research encompasses the political climate of many Latin American countries including Colombia and Venezuela. He is currently working on a large project studying the ongoing political, economic, and social crisis in Venezuela.
Social and Political Effects of the Venezuelan Blackouts
More Student Views
Decriminalizing ‘Colonial’ Laws in the Anglophone Caribbean – ‘Buggery’
The moment I stepped foot back on the island, I was no longer the 14-year-old boy who once proudly wore his school uniform to Wolmer’s Boys High School—the oldest school in the Caribbean—and to Maranatha Gospel Hall, my local church. I had become something else entirely in the eyes of the state: a criminal. An illegal presence.
Empathy Is Listening and Seeing Through: Mapping the Unseen Patient Journeys of Chagas Disease
I write these words not based on my experience from a distant field site in another country but from clinics and community spaces in our neighborhoods in Massachusetts and long video calls—spaces where I’ve had the privilege of listening.
A Journey of Encounter with the Rabinal Achi´and Las Guacamayas
Rabinal Achi’ and Las Guacamayas are among the oldest dances in Guatemala, whose origins date back to before the Spanish conquest.
