On Wednesday, November 19, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is hosting a teach-in on the recent disappearance of...

The decade long drug war has brought the Mexican military and judicial system eye to eye with the abyss. Corruption and brutality have...

On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped, “I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means.” This sense of gallows humor is...

“Be careful, someone was killed here last month,” the cab driver said as he dropped us off at the entrance to Vidigal, one of Rio de...

It has been three weeks since the disappearance of the 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Starting with demonstrations on...

-Salvador Allende September 11 is a date to be remembered for more than one tragic event.  An obscure era of Chilean history began when,...

The obvious is treated discretely in Brazil: Two women are fighting head-to-head for the presidency, one black and one white, and yet...

Magdaleno Rose-Ávila, a revered hero in many Latino communities, former CNN hero of the year and a tireless civil-rights activist, was...

President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff In June 2013, the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil erupted in protest over the rising cost of public...

Over the course of eight months from October to June of this year, 52,000 child immigrants have endured the long and perilous journey to...

Mariela Castro is both advocate and propaganda machine. Regardless, her efforts towards the LGBTI movement have been derided by some as...

Americans have a notorious sweet tooth. The average American now consumes 20 teaspoons of combined sugars — just under half a cup and...

The recent protests by Argentina’s unions against inflation and crime barely scratch the surface of public discontent with Latin...

President Michelle Bachelet marked her second inauguration last month wearing the country’s traditional red, white and blue presidential...

Last Thursday, the world lost one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. At the age of 87, Colombian author and Nobel...

The history of targeted mob violence in this country is not pretty. The act of lynching – heavily racialized in the American context –...

In my first column for BPR, I wrote about the legacy of Chilean socialist Salvador Allende and the covert international scheme that led...

Latin America has experienced a wave of pro-LGBT legislation in recent years. Argentina and Uruguay have legalized gay marriage, as have...

In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...

A state-subsidized “agro.” “No es fácil” – it isn’t easy – is the go-to phrase Cubans use to explain just about any life difficulty....