Category: Regions
October 26, 2018 > Santiago O'Donnell
Prelude
A Guest Opinion Jorge Rafael Videla didn’t come into power overnight in Argentina, nor did he start disappearing people by accident. It was the result of years of authoritarianism, violence […] Read More >
October 25, 2018 > Alanna Elder
With or Without Paris, Brazilian Politics Sway Global Climate Change
This Sunday Brazilians will vote in the second round of a presidential election that has captured the world’s attention. The choice is between a representative of Brazil’s leftist Partido dos […] Read More >
October 25, 2018 > Staff
Venezuela Denies Funding Caravan
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA THE CARAVAN : Yesterday Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro blasted U.S. Vice President Mike Pence over comments that Maduro’s government is responsible for funding the caravan of […] Read More >
October 18, 2018 > John Sevigny
El Salvador’s Murdered Ex-Archbishop is Canonized
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – At 2 a.m. local time last Sunday, while gang-related killings continued throughout the country, El Salvador’s murdered former Archbishop Oscar Romero was canonized. It may have […] Read More >
October 10, 2018 > Jacquelyn Kovarik
How Can the UN Better Include Indigenous Peoples in Its Development Goals?: There’s An App For That
NEW YORK — “These are the people who can either choose to support us, or choose to destroy our lives and our lands with their international development projects?” This was […] Read More >
October 5, 2018 > Isabel Caballero-Samper
50th Anniversary Tlatelolco Massacre Protest
MEXICO CITY—The city center was paralyzed on Tuesday by the floods of mainly young people marching from the Plaza of the Three Cultures to the Zócalo, the two main squares […] Read More >
October 1, 2018 > Nidia Bautista
“Porros”: The Criminal Shock Groups Disrupting Student Protests in Mexico
In Mexico, violent groups likened to goon squads and criminal shock groups have rattled student protestors for decades. In the latest rash of violence, a large group of porros—Spanish slang […] Read More >
September 28, 2018 > Alanna Elder
A year after María, 150 years after the Grito, Manhattanites march
Late at night a century and a half ago, hundreds of rebels against Spanish rule entered the town of Lares in the western part of Puerto Rico and captured the […] Read More >
September 27, 2018 > Staff
Venezuela Under Fire at UN General Assembly
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, five South American presidents and the Canadian prime minister met to sign a joint letter […] Read More >
September 26, 2018 > Jo Corona
Nicaragua poised to clash with US at UN General Assembly
The United States put the roiling domestic unrest in Nicaragua on the UN Security Council’s agenda this month, only days after the country expelled a UN human rights mission sent […] Read More >