Tag: New Spain
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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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Struggles and Obstacles in Indigenous Women’s Fight for Justice in Guatemala
BY IRMA ALICIA VELÁSQUEZ NIMATUJ Transitional justice refers to measures both judicial and non-judicial that are intended to redress large-scale human rights abuses. In this…
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LLILAS Benson and the Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Patrimony of Mexico
BY KELLY McDONOUGH One of the main attractions among the rare books and manuscripts at the Benson Latin American Collection is a group of late-sixteenth-century…
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Where History, Science, and Coral Reef Conservation Meet: A Case Study from St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
BY CARLOS E. RAMOS-SCHARRÓN Landscape is . . . a land shape, in which the process of shaping is by no means thought of as…
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Departing Reflections: Charles R. Hale
BY CHARLES R. HALE I take this opportunity—the last Portal produced under my directorship—to offer a few words of thanks, an expression of excitement for…
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Architecture Through the Lens
Faculty and students at LLILAS Benson train their cameras on Latin American architectural gems old and new. Here is a sample of images from Brazil…
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García Márquez’s Pentimenti
BY JOSÉ MONTELONGO On the morning of November 24, 2014, The New York Times published the news that The University of Texas at Austin had…
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A Tale of Two Tomatoes: The Fair Food Program as a New Paradigm of Social Responsibility
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT BY SEAN SELLERS In December, the Los Angeles Times published a searing exposé on the grinding poverty and rampant human rights abuses faced…
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Masculinity and Gender in Kaqchikel Sololá, Guatemala
BY RIGOBERTO AJCALÓN CHOY “The law is giving many freedoms to women,” notes an interviewee with some dismay when I ask him about the current…
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Politics or Fish? What the Normalization of Cuba–U.S. Relations Means for Food
BY SARA LAW My fieldwork and the last year of my master’s research occurred during a remarkable time in Cuban politics and Cuba–U.S. relations. On…
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Geoclimatic Hazards and Environmental Disasters in Latin America: Human Dimensions and Future Challenges
BY EDGARDO LATRUBESSE Latin America is often treated as a single socio-cultural entity by the international community. This generalist view has permeated disaster analysis, resulting…
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Going Local: Understanding Chinese Transnational Hydroelectric Projects in Ecuador
BY RUIJIE PENG Over the past decade, China and Latin America have experienced exponential growth in trade and direct investment. China is now the second…