History with All the Fixings
English + Español
On a chilly July day in the small town of Yauli, in Huancavelica, Peru, I was walking back from a day of excavations at the site of Atalla, a 3,000-year-old temple and settlement that I was…
Theme: Culture
A Week Living La Via Campesina in Northern Argentina
I spent a week of my month in Argentina in a northern province called Santiago del Estero. There, I lived at the Universidad Campesina de Santiago del Estero, the UNICAM, one of eleven territorial bases of the Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero (MOCASE)…
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The Afterlife of Rubén Darío in English
English + Español
Argentine writer Enrique Anderson Imbert (1910–2000)—who, incidentally, in 1965 became the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic Literature at Harvard—once wrote that the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío divides the history of Spanish-language literature in…
Ambivalent Memories
English + Español
On July 20, 1979, the dawn after the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, I had the good fortune to arrive in Managua as an assistant for a Dutch TV crew. As for anyone who lived through those days, the experience overwhelmed my senses—the palpable collective joy tempered…
Remembering São Paulo
Comfort Abuwa ‘21 (left) meeting her mentee in person for the first time. Her mentee, Thalita (right), drew a picture of her in anticipation of the meeting…
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