This is the grave of Frank Tannenbaum. Born in 1893 in Austria to a Jewish family, Tannenbaum came with his family to the United States in 1905, like so many Jews of that time and place. Too bad more didn't come to the U.S. They...
Latin America
Paraguay will elect a president today. It's a bit of those good news/bad news kind of situation. The good news is that the conservative, historically dominant Colorado party, an effective.
Carina Vance Mafla is the former minister of public health in Ecuador. She writes for Al Jazeera on how the global health model failed Latin America and the Global South.
Today's podcast features Christy Thornton of Johns Hopkins University, discussing her recent New York Times op-ed on the complete failure of the War on Drugs and its impact in Latin America. We discuss how the Biden administration has moved forward significantly on admitting this within...
It's just great that as the U.S. is going backwards on women's rights that Latin America is moving ahead. I mean, who wouldn't want to be falling behind such beacons.
It's nice that Latin America is moving the right way on reproductive justice. That this is happening at the same time that a tiny of group of far-right Catholic extremists.
When racists talk about "protecting our borders" and stopping immigrants from coming to the U.S., it's the biggest act of intentional self-denial and ignorance in history. Nearly every reason for migration from Mexico and Central America is directly related to the United States, even if...
The U.S. most certainly has a lot of problematic statues. But so does Latin America and that reflects the history of racism and genocide just as profound there as here..
What a time to be alive: In Afghanistan, the Taliban has dispatched health teams to far-flung provinces to confront the coronavirus. In Mexico, drug cartels are offering aid packages to.
I love how liberals will go out of their way to say that Fidel Castro or other Latin American leftists are monsters and then just never even speak about the horrors of the Latin American right. This isn't a defense of Castro or Chavez or...
As we discussed the other day, we don't really know what the heck is going with the Zika virus. We do know that it is causing a variety of health.
Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya protest outside the entrance to the international airport in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, July 5, 2009. After the Organization of American.