News and Politics

Symbolic power shift as China signs $1.4 billion contract with Panama

On Tuesday, December 6, news broke that the government of Panama had awarded a $1.4 billion contract to a Chinese consortium to initiate a new...

Un discurso con los activistas jóvenes de la Alianza Cívica de Nicaragua/A discussion with the young activists of Nicaragua's Civic Alliance
December 3, 2018
Spanish in U.S. Education
November 27, 2018

Art and Culture

Tropicália no Brasil

Tropicália

O que é Tropicália? Tropicália foi um movimento artístico no Brasil que aconteceu no início da ditadura militar...

Radical Women, Radical Art
October 17, 2018
Latin Music and Latino Identity
October 4, 2018

Health and Society

The Prison System: Guatemala's Separate Society

Guatemala places in the top ten among the most overcrowded prison systems in the world. A lack of infrastructure and financial corruption has...

Latin Americans living in the Shadow of Volcanoes
Venezuela: what will the future look like?
Baby Trafficking Ring Busted in Peru: A Conversation on Global Child Trafficking Networks

Opinion and Interviews

Reconsidering the Legacy of Estrada Palma, Cu...

                     “…Who controls the present controls the past…,”   George Orwell

 

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Desde Pittsburgh: Repudio a la Retórica y al Crimen de Odio/From Pittsburgh: Renunciation to the Rhetoric and to Hate Crimes
El racismo contra las personas indígenas
The “Real Venezuela” is Exactly What You Think

Economy and Development

Immigration: friend or foe of the Latin American economy?

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The Message of the Petro: Venezuela’s Crypto-currency Effort

Venezuela’s years long economic crisis has not slowed down, as the...

The Question of Puerto Rican Statehood, One Year After Hurricane Maria

 

            On September 16, 2017 Puerto Rico was...

Other

Racism at the 2018 World Cup

On June 14th, soccer players and representatives from thirty-two countries...

Mitchell A. Seligson, LAPOP, and the slipping support for democracy in Latin America

On Friday, January 19, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and...

The Rio Huatanay: My Experience with one of the most polluted rivers in Peru

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