Spotlight
Perspectives in Times of Change
Photo by Lisette Morales McCabe
“Perspectives in Times of Change” reflects on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in these times of change in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States. The Spotlight is an outgrowth of the former Spotlight, Perspectives in the Era of Covid, which ran throughout the pandemic.
If you would be interested in contributing articles or photographs, please contact June Carolyn Erlick, jerlick@fas.harvard.
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2022: Uma Encruzilhada Histórica
English + Português
Este segundo turno da eleição 2022 no Brasil é um embate histórico entre visões de mundo. Entre concepções de vida e seus sistemas de valores. Você vai eleger (etimologia: escolher) em que mundo seria concebível viver.
Fritangas
In Latin America, a house is a family heirloom that gets passed on for generations.
Looking Back
Writing about the experience of this pandemic has been more difficult than I imagined. When I was invited to do this article, we were still in a very uncertain moment of the pandemic. It was September 2021 and, even if we already had vaccines, the predominant variants of Covid-19 were still a major threat to health and life itself.
Distress in the Palace
Ludmila wakes up early, has a cup of green tea for breakfast, and goes to the meeting point that her party leader had assigned a few days before…
The Other Pandemic
The Other Pandemic A Photoessay by Al Rendon When I first saw the memorial not far from my home in San Antonio, Texas, I thought, “There are no words for this.” Fifty-three migrants had suffocated to death in a truck there. It was just so hard to process. I still have...
The Future of Higher Education
Since 839, when the Karueein University was founded in Fez, considered the first in the world, or 1538 when the first university in Latin America was created, the Royal and Pontifical University …