Christmas, 2020: A conversation with Sandra Cisneros
by Tim W. ShenkCommittee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) I am sitting under Tia Tere’s Christmas tree,her first apartment in this, our new world:my sisters by my side,I wear a […]
by Tim W. ShenkCommittee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) I am sitting under Tia Tere’s Christmas tree,her first apartment in this, our new world:my sisters by my side,I wear a […]
Por Tim Shenk Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Presentación en el foro virtual, “Oye Mi Gente: Foro Público de la Comunidad Latina de la Campaña de la Gente […]
by Tim W. Shenk, CUSLAR Coordinator Easter is Resurrection, the triumph of the poor living under empire, the final victory of life over death. Today as we face multiple crises, […]
By Kimberly St Fleur “Mommy! Mommy! I see my dad!” Those were some of the words I heard while in El Paso, Texas volunteering at the seventh edition of the […]
An interview with Todd Miller Todd Miller, winner of the 2018 Izzy Award for investigative journalism, has written three books about borders. On October 22, he gave a talk at […]
By Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Excerpted from the opening article of the issue, Making Sanctuary: Claiming and Defending our Human Rights. Access the full […]
by Rebekah Jones “In our countries, we were already dead,” Central American migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border told Mexican anthropology student Margarita Nuñez last year. “Here some of […]
Reflections prepared for a presentation at the forum titled, “Everybody’s Got a Right to Live,” hosted by the New York State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral […]
by Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations More and more analysts, activists and migrants themselves are speaking in terms of an “exodus” northward out of Central America. […]
by Kevin Maldonado Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations The U.S-Mexican border may have receded from our news feeds, but the asylum crisis there still rages on. On March 22 Cornell […]