Latin News

Seeking Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker College Students to Intern in Washington DC..

Washington D.C. December 18, 2014 –Five migrant/seasonal farmworker college students will be selected to live and work in D.C. for an intensive eight week internship and professional mentoring program. The goal is to provide life altering experiences and networks to help students make the intellectual, cognitive, and emotional transition from…
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Latinamerican Slowdown

By Isaac Cohen* Most international economic agencies recently released downward revisions to the economic growth forecasts in Latin America, for this and next year. The region’s performance has been hurt by the fall in commodity prices caused by the slowdown in most advanced economies and in China. The International Monetary…
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Human Rights Violations in Brazil: Report of the National Truth Commission

By Clemént Doleac*   Affairs
Editorial credit: Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Towson University. After two years and seven months of investigation, the Brazilian National Truth Commission (Comissão Nacional da Verdade, CNV) delivered on December 10 its…
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A Legacy of Violence: Impunity for Murdered Journalists Continues in Paraguay

By Louise Højen*   On October 16, investigative journalist Pablo Medina and his young assistant, Antonia Almeda, were murdered in an ambush all but certainly orchestrated by Brazilian drug cartels and the mayor of the Ypejhú district, Vilmar ‘Neneco’ Acosta Marqués, in Paraguay’s northeastern Canindeyú Department. These killings reveal a disturbing…
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