By Evan Fernández Adam Hochschild and Isabel Allende speaking at Berkeley, February 2020. (Photo by Peg Skorpinski.) On February 25, the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies hosted author Isabel Allende and Berkeley’s own Adam Hochschild to discuss the publication of Allende’s newest novel, Largo pétalo de mar (A Long Petal of the Sea).... Continue Reading →
By Gabriel Boric Written remarks prepared for a public talk at the University of California, Berkeley | Hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) | February 10, 2020 A protest in Santiago, Chile, October 2019. (Photo by Carlos Figueroa.) It’s incredible how language can limit your expression and even your imagination. As you... Continue Reading →
By Gabriel Lesser Political humor is booming in Brazil. It’s practically inescapable if you’re on social—or unsocial—media. Sérgio Augusto recently wrote in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper that the election of an extreme right-wing president who reveres Brazil’s most recent dictatorship (1965-1980) has resulted in a rebirth of anti-authoritarian, resistance-focused humor. My Facebook feed,... Continue Reading →
By Harley Shaiken A version of this article originally appeared as an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on July 5, 2019. President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2017. (Photo by Michael Vadon.) President Trump would like to see the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ratified without delay. It’s a bit like a used car salesperson... Continue Reading →
By Margarita Martínez This article is partially abridged from The Peace Project by the VII Foundation A demonstration against FARC, 2008. (Photo by Camilo Rueda Lopez). Imagine being in Havana, Cuba, in perhaps the only room in the entire Caribbean city devoid of charm, with long beige curtains and particle-board tables set into a fixed... Continue Reading →
By Venicia Slotten Arenal Volcano viewed from the archaeological site La Chiripa. (Photo by Venicia Slotten). This July, supported by a Tinker Foundation and CLAS-funded research grant, I helped excavate a house structure in Costa Rica that was preserved by the eruption of Arenal Volcano around 3,500 years ago. This archaeological site, La Chiripa, is... Continue Reading →
By Eleni Anagnostopoulou Associate Justice Domingo Salgado explains the legal basis for the Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice in Exile and its inner workings. (Photo courtesy of the Berkeley Law special committee). “This fight is not about ideology. It is about democratic, constitutional legitimacy.” These were the first words uttered to the crowd in a packed auditorium... Continue Reading →
By Julia Nee A mother dekerneling corn, submitted by a Zapotec language learner as part of a Photovoice project where students were asked to take a picture of “what speaking Zapotec means to me.” (Photo courtesy of Julia Nee). In Teotitlán del Valle in southern Mexico, there are many people who desire to use and... Continue Reading →
By Adriana Ramirez Downtown Oaxaca, Mexico by night. (Photo by Eduardo Robles Pacheco). Mexican migration in the U.S. is typically perceived to come from the South, as migrants pursue the “American Dream” in the North. My research focuses on the children of migrants who have no agency in their own migration to the U.S. Even... Continue Reading →
By Ana Lucía Tello Attendees of the fourth annual Quechua Alliance Meeting. (Photo courtesy of Quechua at Penn). Spoken by 8-10 million people in the Andes, Quechua is the most widely spoken indigenous language in the Americas, yet it is still considered endangered. As scholars Kendall King and Nancy Hornberger argue, “data from a range... Continue Reading →
