CUSLAR Newsletter: Our Histories, Our Future
Summer/Fall 2021 CUSLAR Newsletter OUR HISTORIES, OUR FUTURE Read or download the full newsletter here.
Category Archives: Paulo Freire study group
A Quarantine Farewell for Francisco Antonio Santos
by Tim W. Shenk, CUSLAR Coordinator Ver versión original en español. On April 15, a mentor and friend, Francisco Antonio Santos, passed away in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Santos, a […]
Los nueve días de Francisco Antonio Santos: Un homenaje desde la cuarentena neoyorquina
Por Tim W. Shenk, Coordinador de CUSLAR English version here El pasado 15 de abril, falleció en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, un mentor, maestro y amigo, Francisco Antonio Santos. Fue […]
Where is one to go? The Effects of Zero-Tolerance Policy on Displacement
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 […]
Puerto Rico’s post-Maria recovery marked by inequality
by Melanie Calderon Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) September will mark two years since Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Yet, the island remains in shambles. […]
Mayan groups oppose high-speed ‘Maya Train’
by Daniela Rivero Last summer, Mexico’s presidential election resulted in the landslide victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist candidate whose campaign earned unprecedented popular support. He ran on […]
Dominican Republic off to an ugly start in human rights violations in 2019
by Tim Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Two serious human rights violations have marred the beginning of 2019 in Dominican Republic, both involving the arrest and harassment […]
The Haitian Revolution and Reflections on Political Strategy
by Tim Shenk Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) We owe incomparably more to Haiti than to all of our abolitionists. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of […]
Mining and resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico
by Nicole Mance Enrique Peña Nieto, the president of Mexico, runs a government that has pushed structural reforms to enable land dispossession in rural and indigenous areas of Mexico. Mass […]
Zonas Económicas Especiales en México: ¿Alternativa de desarrollo regional o desarrollo neoliberal?
por Ángel Álvarez Martínez y Marx Aguirre Ochoa ¿Qué es una Zona Económica Especial, o ZEE? Se considera un área delimitada geográficamente que ofrece un entorno de negocio excepcional para […]
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