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Blossoming Bonds: Beauty and Belonging in Mexico
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.
Women CEOs in Latin America: Overcoming obstacles, navigating through challenges
I first arrived in Latin America in 1997, and since then, I’ve been involved in education and the development of leadership and governance issues in the region. During these 27 years—12 of them from Spain—I have had the opportunity to interact with leaders from the region, the private and public sectors, multinationals and small and medium-sized enterprises, and various industries.
A Review of San Fernando: Última Parada, Viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas
One of Mexico’s best investigative journalists, Marcela Turati, takes readers to terrorized and traumatized San Fernando, a town known for dozens of mass graves, and exposes the depths of criminal brutality and official corruption that hid the bodies and the truth for years.
From Our Current Issue
The Impact of Soybeans in Argentina and Beyond: A Double-Edged Sword?
[English + Español]
What have been the impacts of the sweeping expansion of soybean production in South America, particularly in Argentina?
The Exploration of Rare Earth Minerals: Preservation of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
Indigenous leader Txai Suruí’s speech during the UN COP Climate Conference (COP 26) in 2021 generated a profound impact and even became a topic for the national education exam (ENEM) in Brazil:
The Chiapaneco: Mayan Oral History of a Climate Disaster
On the steep, westernmost slopes of the Chuchumatanes mountains in Guatemala, a string of villages nestled between forests and cornfields make up the Mam Mayan town of San Juan Atitán.
Spotlight
Perspectives in Times of Change
Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.
Recreating a Silenced Newspaper
I first explicitly began to explore the theme of Cuban Blackness in 2014 at BE.BOP 14, Spiritual Revolutions & “The Scramble for Africa,” a theoretical and anti-colonial event in Berlin, Germany, organzied by the late Dominican writer and curator Alanna Lockward. I presented my project “Túmbenlo,” which supported the duo rap group Obsesión in their 2010 demands on the Cuban government to demolish the statue that glorifies racism in Cuba: the statue erected in 1936 of José Miguel Gómez, the second president of Cuba, responsible for the 1912 massacre of thousands of Afro-Cubans who were members of the Independent Party of Color (PIC, after its Spanish acronym).
Reclaiming their Indigenous Languages: Female University Students’ Experiences
Grendy Isabel Nina Huaycane, who comes from the southern Peruvian Andean region of Puno, grew up in an urban area of Puno, where she heard both Spanish and Aymara, though she remembers that most of her interactions where “only in Spanish.” Her entrance to university was a turning point in her life.
Tears and Bullets: A Photoessay by Gabriele Rossi
I read in a recent report by the Norwegian Refugee Council that the violence in Honduras is similar to that experienced in war zones.
StudEnt Views
Upending the Archive: Notes from Researching Third World Ties in Brazilian Cinema Novo
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.
Roots in Rhythm: Exploring Activism in Mapuche Punk Music
Environmental activism meets punk music in the Mapuche community of Chile.
“Summer of Science”: STEM for Mexican Indigenous Women
I have spent the majority of my academic life within the world of Mathematics.
Book ReviewS
A Review of Los Niños del Amazonas: 40 Días Perdidos en la Selva
Los niños del Amazonas. 40 días perdidos en la selva is the first true book by Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell, whose long and impressive career speaks for itself: news director of manifold networks; recipient of prestigious recognitions such as Emmys, Peabodys and Simón Bolívar prizes; and arguably the most widely read columnist in Colombia, where he is as much admired as he is feared.
A Review of Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
Water is a powerful tenet of Afro-diasporic religions that troubles academic disciplines and racial categories that define state, military and geographic borders.
A Review of The Remarkable Reefs of Cuba: Hopeful Stories From the Ocean Doctor
It feels as though work takes up more and more of our lives, expanding into time it never used to touch.
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