Welcome to our new CUSLAR Coordinator, Yéssica Martínez!
We are writing with exciting news about our organization. In the past couple of weeks, we hired a new CUSLAR Coordinator, Yéssica Martínez. Welcome Yéssica! In the middle of the […]
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CUSLAR Newsletter: COVID-19 in the Americas
COVID-19 in the Americas: Inequalities, Response and Impact Find the Winter/Spring 2021 CUSLAR Newsletter here!
Desigualdades sociales en tiempos de coronavirus
Desigualdades sociales en tiempos de coronavirus: desafíos de la democratización de la Educación Superior en Argentina en el contexto pandémico. El caso de la Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Por Prof. […]
No Place to Call Home: Latinos Suffer Housing Discrimination in U.S.
By Melanie Calderon Displacement transcends more than geopolitical borders. It follows the Latino community in the U.S. through discriminatory housing practices and unresponsiveness from federal officials and agencies. And it […]
Save Oak Flat, Sacred Apache Site
By Tim W. Shenk Led by former chair of the San Carlos Apache, Wendsler Nosie, Sr., indigenous leaders have been joined by people of faith from across the country to […]
Indigenous Rights Are Human Rights: Violations Rampant at U.S.-Mexico Border
By Joshua Lam In the early 2000s, Faustino Romero Zepeda was deported to Mexico after returning from tribal business to his Tohono O’odham home north of the border, despite the […]
Standing in the Middle: ‘Hugs Not Walls’ and Mestiza Consciousness
By Gabriel Fernandes On October 26 I got to be part of history being written. For four hours on that day in El Paso, Texas, the border between the United […]
Celebrated Undocumented Activist, Protagonist of Infiltrators Film, Faces Deportation
By Daniela Rivero Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s 2019 documentary The Infiltrators tells the story of two young undocumented activists who successfully infiltrated an ICE detention center in Broward County, […]
‘We’ve never seen so many attacks on our community’: Border Network Leader García Shares Responses to Violence at U.S.-Mexico Border
CUSLAR-LASP Public Issues Forum Lecture by Fernando García Fernando García, founder and executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, gave a lecture titled “Border Communities, Racial Inequalities, and […]
The Challenge of Constructing Peace in Colombia
By Rebekah Jones At the heart of any policy implementation lies a core proposition, a request of change in behavior or thought. As Pressman and Wildavsky highlight, to equate policy […]
Committee on U.S./Latin American Relations 