News and Politics

Nicaragua’s University Students: A Force of Resistance within the Conflict

Nicaragua’s current President, Daniel Ortega, rose to power as a revolutionary leader in the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (otherwise known as...

What's Next: Lopez Obrador secures victory in Mexican presidential election
July 10, 2018
Argentina’s Feminist Momentum: A Journey to Legal, Safe Abortion Laws
July 9, 2018

Art and Culture

A New 'Indigenismo'?: The Revival of Indigenous Culture and Pride in Latin America

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What should we be asking about the new discovery of advanced ancient Maya civilization?
March 14, 2018
Resiliencia académica, nuevas perspectivas de interpretación del aprendizaje en contextos de vulnerabilidad social/Academic resilience, new perspectives of interpreting learning in contexts of social vulnerability
February 26, 2018

Health and Society

Death Tolls to Reconstruction: Post-Hurricane Maria Damage in Puerto Rico

A Silent Killer

Only two weeks after hurricane Irma caused destruction in Puerto Rico, hurricane Maria ravaged throughout...

Medicare, Medicaid, and Mexico: A Transnational Heath Insurance Plan
Security, elections and public policy: Do candidates listen to the citizens during campaigns?
Political participation and constitution-making: the case of Chile

Opinion and Interviews

The “Real Venezuela” is Exactly What You Thin...

(Response to:...

A Lottery System not so Random
Naming Controversy Surrounding Parran Hall
Puerto Rico: The Rise and Drastic Decline of the Island’s Economic Situation

Economy and Development

Aid & Trade Relations with Cuba: Trump’s Updates
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Brazil’s Return to Neoliberalist Policy

In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s many Latin American countries...

US-Latin American Trade Before and After NAFTA
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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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