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 […]
CUSLAR helped propel me into a global career in journalism
by Bill Gasperini For me CUSLAR was almost more important than Rural Sociology at Cornell. I chose that major after doing volunteer social work in Brazil on an exchange program […]
Romero, FIOB strengthen indigenous languages and cultures in California
by Vanessa Bauch Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Mexico and the United States appear very different. Yet the two countries share a grave history, building their modern democracies on […]
Resist the Disney-fication of Dr. King
Russell Rickford, associate professor of history at Cornell University, gave the 2016 address to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community Luncheon at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, […]
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 […]
Migration: Moving people, moving capital
by Richard Gaunt Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) Immigrant and migrant workers who depend on precarious wage labor are at the crux of global capitalism’s explosive crises. As members […]
Nothing in the DR begins on time
by Paige Wagar I came to the Dominican Republic expecting humidity, the heat of a city in summer, mosquitos, and to be honest, a lot of beans and rice. I had […]
The war over mangoes
In the state of Oaxaca, a major agricultural center of Mexico, mango production has been taken over by organized crime, with dangerous effects for local populations and the environment. Intertwining […]
Mexico’s Special Economic Zones: Regional development or more neoliberal reform?
by Ángel Álvarez Martínez and Marx Aguirre Ochoa Translated from the original Spanish by Tim Shenk, CUSLAR What is a Special Economic Zone, or SEZ? It’s considered a geographical area that […]
Becoming family in Dominican Republic
by Dylan van Duyne One of the most humbling parts of the Cornell University Global Health Program in Santo Domingo was having my host mother, Doña Carmen, accept me with […]
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