The Petro-Trump meeting seemed positive despite the coded rhetoric and general statements delivered by the Colombian president during the press conference held at the Colombian Embassy in the United States. Germán Ayala Osorio* The somewhat fawning tone of President Donald Trump’s response about how the meeting went forms […]
Latin America
Rio under siege: when security is measured in bodies
Bullets, cordons and bodies have marked a state offensive which treated the favelas as if they were enemy territory. Decades of neglect, lack of public policies and turf wars against the poor, fuel a cycle of violence which does not reduce crime and further deepens social breakdown. Frei Betto […]
Crisis, war and coercion in Latin America
These events expose an escalation of violence and coercion exerted by the United States on the region. Military interventions, threats against Latin American governments and the complicity of local authorities create a scenario of systematic abuse that feeds popular discontent and the will to resist. Gustavo Espinoza M […]
The challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation
Mestizos are neither Hispanic nor indigenous and have been viewed both negatively and positively depending on their social class and ideology. If being mestizo represents, above all else, a racial and cultural mix, then Latin Americans take this to its furthest and fullest extent, in terms of their culture, society […]
That racism creates violence and inequality in Brazil
Brazil is the country with the most Afro-descendants outside of Africa, but its cultural wealth coexists with a painful legacy of slavery, exclusion and injustice. Structural racism persists in all areas, and black youth face systemic violence that continues to be unpunished, despite recent attempts at reparation and historic visibility. […]
















