October 9, 2018 > Staff
Transgender and Indigenous Candidates Break Glass Ceiling in Brazilian elections
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA BRAZIL : Despite the near victory of the far right in Sunday’s election with presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro entering the runoff election as the frontrunner, indigenous […] Read More >
October 8, 2018 > Staff
Bolsonaro snatches the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA BRAZIL: A contentious presidential race in Brazil reached its conclusion yesterday as the votes began tallying in. Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate from the Social Liberal […] Read More >
October 5, 2018 > Staff
Federal Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Trump’s Termination of Temporary Protected Status
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA UNITED STATES: Immigrants and immigrant rights groups celebrated a new California federal court decision blocking the Trump administration’s plans to stop renewing the legal status of […] 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 4, 2018 > Staff
Peru Revokes Fujimori’s Pardon
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA PERU: The Supreme Court annulled the controversial 2017 pardon of former President Alberto Fujimori, handing down a new “location and capture” order that would have the […] Read More >
October 3, 2018 > Staff
Audit finds failures in border separations
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA THE BORDER : A government audit stated that the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was “plagued” with “lack of preparation, resource shortfalls and communication failures.” The […] Read More >
October 2, 2018 > Staff
Canada joins US and Mexico in trade deal to replace NAFTA
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL: The United States, Mexico and Canada have decided to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with a new trade deal. The latest round of […] Read More >
October 1, 2018 > Staff
Journalistic Investigation Reveals How Illegal Timber Ransacks Amazon Forest
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA AMAZONIA: An international team of journalists has shed light on the mechanisms that traffickers use to ship illegal timber out of the Amazon jungle — where more […] 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 >