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Polling suggests that white and Black Americans are coming from different positions on discrimination.
DigitalVision Vector/Getty Images
July 1, 2022
Poll reveals white Americans see an increase in discrimination against other white people and less
against other racial groups

Stella Rouse, University of Maryland and Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland

Researchers found political partisanship is a significant factor in determining perceptions of discrimination against different
racial groups.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is a notorious Covid-sceptic.

Sergio Lima/AFP
June 16, 2022
Quantifying the effects of Bolsonaro’s dismal management of the Covid-19 pandemic

François Roubaud, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and Mireille Razafindrakoto, Institut de recherche pour le développement
(IRD)

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Research confirms that Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, bears heavy responsibility for the death toll in his country, at
every wave of the pandemic.

EPA-EFE/Etienne Laurent
June 14, 2022
Summit of the Americas: Biden’s attempt to unite the region on migration gets off to a shaky start

Katia Adimora, Edge Hill University

The US president was hoping that the gathering of Latin American leaders would present a united front of migrants. But
several key players were absent.

Migrants from Latin America are traveling through Mexico as part of a caravan heading to the U.S.
Isaac Guzman/AFP via Getty Images
June 9, 2022
Migration to the US is on the rise again – but it’s unlikely to be fully addressed during the Summit
of the Americas, or anytime soon

Jack Maguire, Florida International University

The US is convening Latin American countries in Los Angeles this week to discuss major regional issues. An expert
explains 3 key things to know about one top concern – migration.

Javier Zorrilla/EPA
April 4, 2022
Rosalía: raising reggaetón’s ‘global cachet’ or robbing it of its roots?

Ellen Rebecca Bishell, Newcastle University

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Spanish musicians are increasingly producing reggaetón music while ignoring the colonial history of Spain and South
America and also erasing its Black roots in the process

Armed Salvadoran soldiers, following presidential orders, surrounded lawmakers in 2020.

AP Photo/Salvador Melendez
March 8, 2022
Support for democracy is waning across the Americas

Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University and Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University

For the commitment to democracy to regain strength across the Americas, citizens need to become more confident in the
integrity of their elections and their elected officials.

Disappeared: relatives protest at the headquarters of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Bogota, Colombia, August 2021.
EPA-EFE/Mauricio
Duenas Castaneda
January 13, 2022
The science that is helping researchers find the ‘disappeared’ in Latin America

Jamie Pringle, Keele University; Alejandra Baena, Universidad Antonio Nariño; Carlos Martín Molina, Universidad Antonio Nariño; Kristopher
Wisniewski, Keele University, and Vivienne Heaton, Keele University
Researchers are using modern forensic techniques to find the bodies of victims of civil conflict in Latin America.

The graffiti on the building reads, ‘The rich abort, the poor die.’
(Megan Rivers-Moore)
January 4, 2022
In Latin America, not only abortions but miscarriages can lead to jail time

Megan Rivers-Moore, Carleton University

As debates about abortion heat up in the U.S. once again, we need to pay attention to the hard-fought struggles over
abortion in other nations where religion plays a key role in politics and public life.

A Mayan spiritual guide arranges crosses, marked with the names of people who died in the nation’s civil war, in a circle in preparation for a
ceremony marking the National Day of Dignity for the Victims of Armed Internal Conflict. Guatemalans annually honor the victims of the 36-year civil
war that ended in 1996 on Feb. 25.
(AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
January 2, 2022
Guatemala: 25 years later, ‘firm and lasting peace’ is nowhere to be found

W. George Lovell, Queen's University, Ontario

Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace accord that ended a 36-year civil war, Guatemala is still struggling with
violence and corruption.

Activists in Uruguay took part in global marches against gender-based violence.

(AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
December 5, 2021
How Latin American feminists shifted global understanding of gender-based violence

Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo, University of Toronto

Latin American activists have made important contributions to the movement against gender-based violence. Their impact
has been significant within global feminist movements.

Waiting for SCOTUS: pro-choice activists outside the US Supreme Court on November 1.
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

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November 25, 2021

US abortion bans back before the Supreme Court – but globally more countries are liberalising
access than restricting it. Podcast

Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation

 Plus, a forensic scientist explains how he uncovered the mysteries behind deadly lightning strikes. Listen to The
Conversation Weekly.

A climate measuring station in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Alexander Siegmund
November 17, 2021
How plants survive in one of the driest places on Earth, and what they can tell us about
climate change

Alexander Siegmund, Heidelberg University of Education

This hardy desert plant lives in the hostile Atacama Desert in Chile by sucking moisture out of passing fog. As water
resources become ever more scarce, humans could follow suit.

An empty school classroom in Uganda.

narvikk/Gettyimages
November 16, 2021
The cost of COVID: what happens when children don’t go to school

Conrad Hughes, Université de Genève

School closures have immediate and long-term effects on students, both emotionally and economically. They will also
have a ripple effect on a country and on income inequality.

Nicaragua’s power couple, Vice President Rosario Murillo and husband President Daniel Ortega.
INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images
November 9, 2021
Why Nicaragua’s slide toward dictatorship is a concern for the region and the US, too

Kai M. Thaler, University of California Santa Barbara

The rule of Daniel Ortega has become increasingly authoritarian. Sanctions and repression could destabilize the region
and result in increased numbers of refugees.

Once a revolutionary: Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega appears to want to stop at nothing to retain power.
EPA-EFE/Jorge Torres
November 5, 2021
Nicaragua: former revolutionary Daniel Ortega now resembles the dictator he helped overthrow

Eline van Ommen, University of Leeds

Once a Sandinista revolutionary, Ortega’s oppressive neoliberal regime now imprisons opponents and raids newspaper
offices.

Shutterstock
October 8, 2021
The English language dominates global conservation science – which leaves 1 in 3 research
papers virtually ignored

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Tatsuya Amano, The University of Queensland

Many valuable scientific breakthroughs were originally published in a non-English language. New research shows more
effort is needed to transcend language barriers to improve conservation science.

Desperate: relatives of inmates at Ecuador’s Litoral Prison wait for news after 118 were killed in violent riots on September 30.
REUTERS/Santiago
Arcos
October 5, 2021
Ecuador prison riot: 118 killed as gang violence spirals out of control in Latin America’s jails

Malcolm Evans, University of Bristol

Gang violence is a serious problem in Latin American society – not just its jails.

Chinese engineers pose after welding the first seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in Vientiane, Laos, June 18, 2020.
Kaikeo
Saiyasane/Xinhua via Getty Images
September 22, 2021
China is financing infrastructure projects around the world – many could harm nature and
Indigenous communities

Blake Alexander Simmons, Boston University; Kevin P. Gallagher, Boston University, and Rebecca Ray, Boston University
Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows
that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.

Mexico City on Aug. 8, 2021: lots of masks, not so much social distancing.
Luis Barron / Eyepix Group/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
August 18, 2021
Mexico, facing its third COVID-19 wave, shows the dangers of weak federal coordination

Adolfo Martinez Valle, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Felicia Marie Knaul, University of Miami

COVID-19 cases in Mexico are approaching the highest levels seen during the second wave in late January 2021, with
about 22,000 new infections a day. A slow vaccine rollout is stunting progress.

The relationship between immigrants’ and refugees’ education, experience and economic integration matters. It can tell us whether Latinos are
unemployed or underemployed or contributing to the Canadian economy.
(Shutterstock)
August 3, 2021
Latin Americans face a stubborn pay gap in Canada, data shows

Alejandro Hernandez, Concordia University

Although Latinos are present across all Canadian labour markets, they are lagging behind the Canadian median total
income. What does that mean for their economic integration?
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Luis Gómez Romero
Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong

Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town

Marco Aponte-Moreno
Associate Professor of Global Business and Board Member of the Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies, St
Mary's College of California

Neil Pyper
Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London

Pia Riggirozzi
Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton

Anthony Pereira
Professor in the King’s Brazil Institute and Department of International Development, King's College London

Juan Pablo Ferrero

Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Bath

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Robert Muggah
Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Andrew Self
Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University

Marieke Riethof
Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool

Annette Idler
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing
Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Sanne Weber
Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham

Miguel Angel Latouche
Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela

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Benjamin Waddell
Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

Alexis Sergio Esposto
Senior Lecturer, Economics, Swinburne University of Technology

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