In the wake of the oil explosion tragedy in Hidalgo, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces the first major crisis that may outline the course of his administration’s plans to tackle fuel theft and corruption in both the state-owned oil company Pemex and the federal government itself. On January
Mexico’s South Wall
A couple of months ago, thousands of immigrants from Central America crossed the border between Guatemala and Mexico in their journey to reach the United States of America. The arrival of more than 4,000 people to the bridge between the two countries, their encounter with armed Mexican forces, and the
A Young Rebel Of Ortega’s Dictatorship: “We Feel The Repression To Our Bones”
Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, once stood at the frontline of his country’s leftist revolution, fighting for the emancipation from forty two years of dictatorship. Almost forty years later, as Ortega is serving his third consecutive term, large-scale protests against his presidency have resulted in hundreds of deaths and the
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Argentina’s “Green Wave”: A Women’s Rights Struggle In Latin America
On June 13, 2018 the lower house of the Argentinian Congress voted in favor of a bill to decriminalize abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. Less than two months later, the upper house voted against the bill so abortion in Argentina remains penalized except in the case of
The Notorious E.C.G. – Kingpin Robin Hood Or Menace To Society?
This is a tale of rags to riches. This is the tale of a man who received no formal education past third grade. The story of a man who grew up on the streets of Mexico. The son of a poor farmer, who worked hard to create a multimillion-dollar empire.
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How Fidel Castro Inspired The Left In Latin America
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz passed away in November 2016 and his death sparked varied reactions across the globe. Hated and admired by so many, Castro is a legend not only in Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America and the world. He was also an inspiration to well-known Latin American
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Blood on the leaves: menstruation and the masculinity of humanitarian aid
Your home is in ruins, your possessions scattered, and your livelihood is destroyed. You are on the move now, forced to move away from everything you know. Then you get your period. Most humanitarian aid is gender-blind. In practice this means that factors of everyday life that impact both women
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No Place for Moral Vacuums – the Crisis of Humanitarian Aid
Those who follow international news would have found it hard to miss the recent scandal faced by one of Britain’s biggest aid agencies, Oxfam. An investigation by The Times claimed that the charity covered up misconduct by senior aid workers in Haiti, including the then-country director Roland van Hauwermeiren. The
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hurricane Maria?
It’s difficult to imagine in our modern connected society that an entire country could lose contact with the world for a whole day, yet in September 2017 this is what happened to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica when Hurricane Maria made landfall. To make matters worse, Maria kept a
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Lingering turmoil in Venezuela
“I seriously started to think about moving in 2010 when our son was about to be born. By that time about 80% of my closest friends had already moved,” Nelson (31) from Venezuela reflects. Nelson, his wife Karem (30), and their son (8) are currently residing in Tasmania, an island