by Laurie Coyle* * This is the first in a series of dispatches by filmmaker Laurie Coyle and Chicana activist and former political prisoner Olga Talamante documenting their current trip to Argentina. The occasion is the November 28, 2013, premiere … Continue reading
by Laurindo Dias Minhoto* In Rio de Janeiro—the “marvelous city”—there is an old port where slave ships that brought captive workers from different parts of Africa to the center of the colony docked. The port area has been recently named … Continue reading
by J. Patrice McSherry* In 2012 and 2013 there have been important developments in the case of Víctor Jara, the beloved Chilean folk singer and songwriter who was tortured and killed in the Stadium of Chile after the 1973 … Continue reading
by Cliff Welch* While Olympic athletes faced victory and defeat along the putrid shores of Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, on the shores of sparkly Lake Paranoá in Brasilia, Brazil’s 36th president, Dilma Rousseff, faced only defeats as her enemies … Continue reading
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Clifford Welch* The new year had barely begun when the sting of a yet-to-be-installed … Continue reading
by Edward J. McCaughan & Ani Rivera* If going home is denied me then I will have to stand and claim my space, making a new culture—una cultura mestiza—with my own lumber, my own bricks and mortar and my own feminist … Continue reading
by Clifford Welch* Thirty-eight years ago, in April, 1980 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva went to jail for the first time. On April 7, 2018, the former president of Brazil, one of the most beloved politicians in the world, went … Continue reading
by Clifford Welch* The front-runner in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election refuses to debate his opponent. He prefers to generate and reproduce disinformation about his opponent without ever issuing an apology or correction. Sounds familiar? In fact, front-runner Jair Bolsonaro looks … Continue reading
(Click on any author’s name to download the pdf) 2014–2010 2009–2005 | 2004–2000 | 1999–1995 | 1994–1990 | 1989–1985 | 1984–1980 | 1979–1974 | • • • 41:4 (2014) Youth under Control Randolph R. Myers & Judah Schept, Editors’ Introduction: Youth under … Continue reading
(Click on any author’s name to download the pdf) 1999–1995 (Vols. 26–22) 2015– | 2014–2010 | 2009–2005 | 2004–2000 | 1994–1990 | 1989–1985 | 1984–1980 | 1979–1974 26:4 (1999) Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America Paz Rojas B., Impunity and the Inner History of Life … Continue reading