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 […]
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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 […]
Making Sanctuary: Claiming and Defending Our Human Rights
By Tim W. Shenk Coordinator, Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) “I love my country By which I mean I am indebted joyfully To all the people throughout its history […]
What’s behind Ecuador’s October 2019 uprising?
by Gabriel Fernandes Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) On October 13, the 14-day conflict over recent neoliberal economic reforms approved by Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno finally came to an […]
Che Guevara: More than a beard, more than a brand
by Tim W. Shenk Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Many of us first became acquainted with Che Guevara by way of the iconic photo: the one of a serious, […]
