By Daniel Payares Montoya The inauguration of President Iván Duque on August 8, 2018 in Colombia. (Photo courtesy of the Colombian government). August 8th marked the beginning of the term of President Iván Duque, who will lead Colombia for the next four years. This comes amid a political environment characterized by increasing polarization and a... Continue Reading →
By Emma Steigerwald The Marbled water frog is believed to be important for its medicinal properties, as well as for its role in the ecosystem. (Photo by Emma Steigerwald). “When I was a child and the rain did not come,” adults sometimes told us, “my mother had me carry a frog far from the water,... Continue Reading →
By Franklin Moreno Military police trucks returning from patrols in Chamelecón. (Photo by Franklin Moreno.) I returned not too long ago from Honduras after the catrachos went to the polling stations for the national elections on November 26 and the firestorm of allegations of fraud and voting irregularities made by the political opposition and by the... Continue Reading →
By Liz McKennaNovember 4, 2017 This article was originally published in Portuguese by Nexo. In the stream of sensationalist stories coming out of Brazil, electoral reform seems among the least newsworthy. The updated rules of the political game, however, reveal exactly how the deck gets stacked against democracy—and how incumbent elites tinker with institutions to... Continue Reading →
by Franklin Moreno In approximately two months there will be general elections in Honduras—a country where much of the population live in difficult living conditions. I’ve spoken to youth and adults in the city of San Pedro Sula about the elections and have been told the same thing numerous times: the elections are rigged and... Continue Reading →
by Cristobal Madero and Daniel Cano In August 2015, a telephone rings in the history department of an elite high school in Santiago, Chile. After several unanswered calls, Marcela, one of the history teachers, finally picks up the phone. It only takes us a few minutes to convince her to participate in a program on... Continue Reading →
By Alfonso Fierro The story of Doctor Atl’s Olinka is the story of a failure. Olinka was meant to be a city for artists, intellectuals, and scientists – a place where they could work independently and collectively, in a space detached from the modern world. Dr. Atl was a disenchanted revolutionary and a landscape painter.... Continue Reading →
By Michael Mitchell I came to Tabasco, Mexico with a Fulbright research grant in August 2014 to study the socio-economic impact of small-scale fish farming in rural communities. Nestled between Chiapas and Campeche, Tabasco shares a southern border with Guatemala and is one of the primary transit points for Central American refugees and migrants into... Continue Reading →
By Shane Fallon As a 2016 recipient of the Tinker Summer Research Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies, as well as the recipient of UC Berkeley's Center for Global Public Health Reporting Fellowship, my summer research project took me south of the hemisphere to Peru. My photojournalism project in the coastal, urban city... Continue Reading →
By Ignacio Escalante A muddy trail on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, right after the rain. (Photo by Ignacio Escalante.) I am walking in a tropical rainforest on a small island in central Panama. The sound of my muddy boots mixes with the sounds of raindrops hitting the tree canopy, and toucans singing, and monkeys howling in... Continue Reading →
