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Metropolatino
December 6, 2014

Translating is a dangerous act of resistance, and Juan knew that danger all too well, but never stopped striving to avoid losing anything in that translation.

Contested Natures
December 4, 2014

Development that depends on “water grabbing” threatens Latin America’s ability to conserve wetland-based communities and ecosystems.

Border Wars
December 1, 2014

The United States is enforcing its economic borders over its geographic ones.

November 26, 2014

Bad Hair Director Mariana Rondón shares her thoughts on the right to be different, utopian cities, and the ingenuity of children.

November 25, 2014

Susana Villarán's electoral defeat in Lima is instructive for left-wing leadership in Latin American cities where the left remains weak.

November 22, 2014

Mexico’s human rights crisis must be understood within the context of delayed and incomplete democratization.

November 20, 2014

With 43 disappeared student teachers presumed dead, Mexican popular resistance is creating new alternatives to the militarized narco-state.

November 19, 2014

In Justin Simien’s debut film Dear White People, a passing comment about Puerto Ricans exposes the contradictory status of mixed-race people in the "post-racial" Americas.

November 18, 2014

Argentina’s debt dispute with U.S. holdout creditors sparked a global conversation on debt restructuring, and may determine the fate of Kirchnerism at home.

November 12, 2014
Although a rallying cry for the global abortion rights movement, these 17 Salvadoran women did not purposefully end their own pregnancies. Instead, they suffered a combination of obstetrical complications and poverty.

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