Alicia Swords: Connecting grassroots leaders
For CUSLAR’s 50th Anniversary: Interview by Luna Olavarria Gallegos Can you tell us about yourself and your connections to CUSLAR? Alicia Swords: I have been a part of CUSLAR […]
‘If they kill me, I will be reborn’ – Oscar Romero nearer to sainthood
By Tim Shenk and Celina Foran Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) This article appeared here on TeleSUR’s English website on Feb. 5, 2015. “As a Christian I do […]
Find all of the latest issues of the CUSLAR Newsletter online here, or in print at newsstands and on university campuses in and around Ithaca, New York. In this […]
The right to health: Collaborations in Dominican Republic
by Tim Shenk Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations When you arrive at ANDA, you get the sense very quickly that this is no ordinary doctor’s office. ANDA is at once […]
Colombian conscientious objector speaks about peace and music
by Kailin Koch “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein This past week, CUSLAR got the opportunity to speak with Mario […]
CUSLAR launches Paulo Freire Program
by Diana Folla During the Fall 2013 semester, CUSLAR launched the Paulo Freire Engaged Practitioners Program and welcomed its first guest, Judite Stronzake of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). During […]
‘Sin reforma agraria, no hay democracia’
Judite Stronzake, representante de la Coordinación Nacional del Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) de Brasil, impartió la ponencia de cierre del Congreso Latinoamericano sobre Democracia y Dictadura, realizado […]
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo comparten sobre 36 años de lucha por los derechos humanos
En su presentación de Estela Barnes de Carlotto y Buscarita Roa, la Embajadora Argentina Cecilia Nahón dijo de estas abuelas, “son dos ejemplos emblemáticos de las luchas por los derechos […]
Cornell undergrad leads peers to Intag, Ecuador
by Jessica Barragan Cornell undergraduate Martin Zorrilla ’13 has found himself at the head of the class, teaching a course on the struggles of his home community in Ecuador and […]
Argentine grandmothers: ‘NEVER AGAIN!’
In her introduction of Estela Barnes de Carlotto and Buscarita Roa, Argentine Ambassador Cecilia Nahón called the grandmothers “two examples of courage that are emblematic of the struggles for human […]
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