Introducing the CUSLAR Class of 2024

	Rafael Montán ‘26Rafael is a rising junior studying Government and American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. Program Director Jorge DeFendini approached him to join the resurrected student organization in Fall 2023 and he has fallen in love with CUSLAR since. Applying his studies from the Latina/o Studies Program, Rafael is very interested in Latin American social movements, history, and electoral politics. He is excited to join CUSLAR as a Summer Intern, hoping further to explore his interest in Latin American and US politics.
	Jeronimo Pinto ’24Jeronimo is an undergraduate senior studying history. He is studying paramilitary land governance in Colombia’s Magdalena Medio region during the 1980s and 90s, and is more broadly interested in critical theory and historical and contemporary anticolonialist movements. He is proud to be working with CUSLAR, an organization with a rich history of solidarity with liberation movements in Latin America, and which offers a much needed critical perspective on US imperialism in the region. He looks forward to researching and organizing alongside CUSLAR, which not only provides analysis on the contemporary struggles of Latin Americans, but seeks to actively support them.