Tag: Latin America
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...
Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross and Kia Lilly Caldwell, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Women’s empowerment recently got a big...
Latin American history suggests Zimbabwe’s military coup will turn violent
Rut Diamint, Torcuato di Tella University
On Nov. 14, a group of soldiers from the Zimbabwe Defense Forces arrested and detained Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe....
In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
Robert Muggah, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in Rio de Janeiro, it’s...