Category: Environment
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Do Indigenous Ecologies Matter?
By BARBARA E. MUNDY AN INVITATION TO THE 2025 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America,” allowed me to…
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On the Cover
The cover of our 2017–2018 print edition of Portal features a photograph by Lynda M. Gonzalez, a photojournalist who is pursuing a dual master’s degree…
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A Love Letter to the Library
LLILAS Benson is proud to announce the publication of A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection by the University of…
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Interview: Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos
Social psychologist Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos works with people and communities pushed to the brink by economic, social, and environmental forces beyond their control.…
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Overcoming Statelessness in Chile
BY FELIPE GONZÁLEZ MORALES Statelessness, or the lack of a nationality, is one of the worst conditions in which migrants and their descendants can find…
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Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire
BY MEGAN RABY At the end of 1960, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, on the Soledad estate of a US-owned sugar company, the American Director and Cuban…
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21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents: Revisiting the Digital Portal to the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional
Editor’s note: According to an August 13 report on the National Security Archive website, “Guatemala’s renowned Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) is in crisis after…
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Faculty Spotlight: Jason Borge
BY SUSANNA SHARPE In his new book, Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz (Duke, 2018), Jason Borge uses jazz as a way…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kelly S. McDonough
BY SUSANNA SHARPE There is a term in the Nahuatl language that means learned person, sage, or knowledge keeper: itxtlamati (plural, ixtlamatinih), a compound of…
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“Morir poco a poco”: Desaparición y pérdida ambigua en las vidas de madres activistas en el México actual
Leer en inglés. Por MORAVIA DE LA O Margarita1 ha pasado los últimos nueve años buscando a su hijo Mauricio. Tiene un folder con fotos…
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Staff Spotlight: Albert A. Palacios
BY SUSANNA SHARPE Albert A. Palacios possesses an insatiable thirst for knowledge and the energy to match. In the almost fifteen years since he moved…
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El viaje donde se pierde la inocencia y la niñez: Niños migrantes sin acompañante
POR CÉSAR IVÁN ARANA LÓPEZ La migración de niñas, niños y adolescentes centroamericanos (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua) y mexicanos que viajan sin acompañantes…
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Alumni Spotlight: A Language Is Not a Widget
BY JOSEPH M. PIERCE It has been five years since I completed a PhD in Spanish American Literature, and seven since completing the MA in…