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Eyes Closed, Eyes Open: The Puerto Rico Winter Institute
¡Ojos cerrados! On my fifth day in Puerto Rico as part of the 2024 Harvard Puerto Rico Winter Institute (HPRWI), my peers and I went to a workshop at a small but mighty theater collective called Agua, Sol y Sereno.
Alvarado, Arbenz, Arévalo: The Repair of Guatemala
Almost exactly 500 years ago Hernán Cortés dispatched his brother-in-arms Pedro de Alvarado from newly subdued Tenochtitlán to conquer Guatemala. Violent and monumentally willful, Alvarado was a key lieutenant in the Spanish Crown’s conquest of Cuba in 1511 and Cortés’ deputy in defeating Moctezuma’s empire in 1521.
A Review of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
In February 2019, I found myself serving as the special attorney general for the then newly recognized interim government of Venezuela, tasked with addressing more than 50 claims before the U.S. courts stemming from the $140 billion debt inherited from Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
From Our Current Issue
Water Stewardship Is Strategy, Not Philanthropy: A Field Note from Latin America
The first time I sat across from a farmer in rural Latin America, water sat with us too—silent, almost taken for granted.
The AI-Era Digital Divide: Listening to Mexican Youth Voices
One Mexican teenager admitted in an on-line survey, “To summarize information or conduct research, honestly, it makes my work much faster, but it does worsen my research skills.” She was referring to AI as an educational tool.
Technology and Collective Memory: Commemorating the Unidad Popular
The one thousand days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, from 1970–1973, marked a period of political innovation in Chile.
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.
StudEnt Views
Measuring 21st Century Skills
Educators everywhere are talking about how we need to be teaching “21st century skills.” But what do these skills include exactly? While different stakeholders have different definitions of…
Untold Stories of the Past and Future
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As I read Los comentarios reales de los Incas (1609), the work of the great Peruvian chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, I could easily imagine him as a young man, reunited with…
Keiko Fujimori Finds a Refuge in Trumpism
Growing up, I was often shuttled between the United States and Peru, where most of my time was spent in the back of taxis, listening to the radio as we languished away in Lima’s traffic jams…
Book ReviewS
Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context
When I was running a newspaper bureau in Nicaragua, I once went to look for my housekeeper to ask where we kept something or other. She wasn’t there, but her TV was on…
Getting Respect
When I first arrived in Brazil in the 1980s, I quickly learned that race in Brazil was not important there. The country that once had by far the largest slave population in the…
The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Fifteen-plus years ago, historian David Bushnell argued in his widely read textbook that Colombia was the least studied and probably the least understood major country in Latin America…
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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