Rediscovering Latin America through Journalism
Throughout my life, my exposure to the diverse realities of the American continent has been marked by my growing up in a small town in southern Uruguay, and by the many books that…
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Theme: Personal Story
Active Free Media is More Important than ever in Brazil
In Brazil, my home country, President Jair Bolsonaro has been at continuous war with the media, denouncing any unfriendly press coverage as “fake news.” To my surprise, I recently…
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Friends Who Disappear
I first met Marvyn Perez in 1988 when I was teaching English in Mexico. I was having dinner at the home of Guatemalan exiles, fellow instructors at the university in Puebla. Marvyn…
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Leve Historia: The Power of Public and Private Schools Partnership
English + Portuguese
When I started the Leve Historia movement in March 2021, I could not imagine that we would end up giving more than 24,000 books to public school students without a signature or a penny. Leve…
Gender, Grief and Forced Disappearance
English + Español
As a student of international development, I’ve been trained to understand gender as one of the many factors that often leads to hard struggle. In my studies of poverty, hunger, war and…