Christián González Reyes and Miroslava Guzmán Pérez share highlights of the student-organized event series about Mesoamerica centered around storytelling, research, and community-building, showcasing various speakers' insights into Indigenous identity and practices. From engaging professors to poets, each event emphasized the importance of storytelling in shaping understanding and resilience.
Juan C. Campos, Ph.D. student in Political Science and a 2025 CLACS Summer Dissertation Fellow, studies the effects of police reform efforts in Mexico. Do efforts at centralizing control of police forces strengthen their ability to control organized criminal groups, or do they increase collusion between the two groups?
Julia Nee finds delight in studying non-colonial languages in Latin America through the work of Berkeley's programs in Indigenous Language Revitalization.
By Denise Dresser Andrés Manuel López Obrador shakes hands with children at an event on March 15, 2020.(Photo courtesy of the Presidencia de la República Mexicana..) March 16, 2020 Kissing and hugging. Going from meeting to meeting and from one restaurant to another. That is how Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to move around Mexico,... 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 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 Esteban Mirón Marván Professors at the UIET in Oxolotán after a workshop on Classic Maya archaeology led by the author. (Photo courtesy of Esteban Mirón Marván). Archaeologists in the Maya region have exploited the heritage and history of the contemporary indigenous Maya peoples for more than a century. For the last eight decades federal... Continue Reading →
By Elizabeth Oglesby A version of this article originally appeared in The Hill on December 13th, 2018. "Mexico only" sign at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing. (Photo by Noah Jacquemin.) This week's Oval Office sparring between President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders, over border wall funding and the possibility of a government shutdown, made for great political theater. In... Continue Reading →
By Harley Shaiken and Representative Sander Levin (D-MICH.) A version of this article originally appeared in The Detroit Free Press on December 7th, 2018. Presidents Peña Nieto, Trump, and Trudeau with the recently signed USMCA at the G20 Summit in Argentina earlier this month. (Photo courtesy of Presidencia de la República Mexicana.) General Motor’s surprise announcement... Continue Reading →
