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October 14, 2014
A guerrera de la luz, Lila Downs talks about her current and future projects and what it means to live and make art on real and metaphorical borders.
October 9, 2014
Without clear legislation governing street prostitution in Ecuador, sex workers band together to battle frequent and arbitrary police crackdowns—and win.
October 2, 2014
Cómo los ataques de la prensa de derecha, un escándalo de falsificación, y la insatisfacción de los usuarios de transporte decidirán elección de la alcaldía de Lima
October 2, 2014
How right-wing media attacks, a forgery scandal, and commuter dissatisfaction will decide Lima's mayoral election.
Rebel Currents
September 29, 2014
Bolivian president Evo Morales is expected to win the October 12 national elections by a landslide. But will Morales and the MAS party that emerges from the electoral process have the political will to deepen Bolivia's "process of change?"
September 29, 2014
After Obama's mishandling of this Summer's influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the border, will Democrats win back the trust of Latino voters?
September 26, 2014
On September 19, a dispute between armed cement factory workers and local indigenous Mayan community members left 11 killed and 20 wounded. Once completed, the cement factory is planned to be one of the largest in Latin America.
Border Wars
September 23, 2014
As immigration enforcement and local police continue to merge, bureaucracy has become a crutch on which the U.S. immigration policing apparatus leans.
September 10, 2014
Martín Rodríguez Pellecer, co-founder of Plaza Pública, on how his new media outlet Nómada fits into the boom in Latin American journalism that could reshape the region.
September 10, 2014
Almost 10 years after their origins as a quirky indie-hip hop cum alternative reggaetón music group, Calle 13 continues to bring its message of a dissolution of borders in favor of social class alliances to the mainstream.