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Climbing the Tepozteco: Meditations on Mexico
English + Español
With sweat trickling down my forehead, I meditated on the question: What does motivation look like?
Safety For Whom? The Cost of El Salvador’s Latest Quest for Peace
On January 3, 2024, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele ordered the destruction of San Salvador’s Monument of Reconciliation, an enormous sculpture on the west side of the capital that had been inaugurated in 2017 under Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) President Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Intended to celebrate 25 years since the signing of the Peace Accords, which brought El Salvador’s civil war to an end, the monument featured two bronze figures—an FMLN fighter and a soldier with arms interlocked and releasing a flock of aluminum pigeons.
A Review of El populismo en América Latina. La pieza que falta para comprender un fenómeno global
In 1946, during a campaign event in Argentina, then-candidate for president Juan Domingo Perón formulated a slogan, “Braden or Perón,” with which he could effectively discredit his opponents and position himself as a defender of national dignity against a foreign power.
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.
The Darien Gap: The Boom of the Venezuelans
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faced a dilemma: she didn’t want any more immigrants, but she was facing severe population decline in her country. She needed young people who wanted to start families to settle in Italy; however, she didn’t favor those immigrants arriving from Africa.
Lake Poopó’s Disappearance: The Uru Community’s Tale of Resilience
“The lake was our mother and father. Now, we are orphans,” said Don Rufino Choque, whose words echo through the desolate, windswept salt flat that had once been the thriving shore of Lake Poopó, Bolivia.
Menorahs in Unlikely Places: Guatemala Journal
Everywhere we went in Guatemala, we saw shops with Hebrew names—Eben Ezra Pharmacy, El Shadday Fertilizer.
StudEnt Views
Why Knot Chacha? A Summer with the Khipus of Lagunas de Los Cóndores
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.
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.
Book ReviewS
A Review of Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story
Young adults traveling to find themselves is a tale as old as time. It’s not hard to conjure images of historical figures or folk heroes sailing out for adventure, looking for fame, fortune or—perhaps more important—meaning.
A Review of Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia
Amelia Fiske’s ethnography, Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia, widens and deepens details of Ecuador’s highly controversial, post-1960s, Amazon oil development.
A Review of When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Taking care of patients in rural Haiti or in southwest Uganda, say, who are sick from diseases long since vanquished from the United States, in communities that did not get much access to Covid-19 vaccines when they were most critical, a healthcare practitioner might easily fall into despair.
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