Tag: Latin America
The secret Latin American history of the Kentucky Derby
E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina
This Triple Crown season, which opens on May 4 with the Kentucky Derby, horses with Latin American bloodlines...
We train Colombian woolly monkeys to be wild again – and...
Mónica Alejandra Ramírez, Universidad de los Andes ; Manuel Lequerica Tamara, University of Sydney, and Pablo Stevenson, Universidad de los Andes
Colombia’s Andes Mountains...
Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary's College of California
President Donald Trump has spoken forcefully about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, calling it a “human tragedy”...
Argentina bets 60 percent interest rates – and $50B international bailout...
Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University and Kenneth Mitchell, Monmouth University
An economy in recession. Pesos fleeing the country. The worst drought in decades. The...
Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate
Jessica Eise, Purdue University and Natalie White, Purdue University
In Colombia’s coffee-producing region of Risaralda, small trees run along the sharp incline of the Andes...
Mexico elects a leftist president who welcomes migrants
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
Mexico’s next president will be Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and outspoken critic of the...
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 30...
Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
On March 24, 1980, the archbishop of San Salvador was shot inside his own church in a deliberate, cold-blooded murder...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
