Category: Columns & Features
Human rights activists to be honored for work in Guatemala, Latin America
Revue Magazine Two human rights defenders who have worked extensively in Guatemala and elsewhere in Latin America will be honored this month in New York with one of the largest human rights awards in the world. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) and the Puffin Foundation have selected Fredy Peccerelli, executive director of the Guatemalan [...]
A few words about Love Thy Neighbor, Mexico: Getting American drug users to connect their usage with violence in Mexico
By Slyvia Longmire Mexico’s Drug War A little over a year ago (maybe more, maybe less…my memory is like a sieve), I was asked to serve on the Board of Advisers for an organization out of Stanford University called Love Thy Neighbor, Mexico. In a nutshell, their goal is to educate people between the ages [...]
Guest Voz: Moral Authority, The Supreme Court and La Mordida
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Direct forms of political control are easy to figure out. For a time, laws and police agencies can keep things together. However, most institutions and societies depend on social control to deceive people into thinking that they live in a democracy. They use processes that socialize them into believing that [...]
Chasing Down a Better Way to Run: Learning How and Why We Run
This View of Life Harvard Provost Alan Garber loves running — so much so that when he returned to his alma mater last year, he listed among the job’s perks a chance to resume his exercise route along the Charles River. “I love seeing Dunster House as I’m approaching the end of my run,” said [...]
The First Step about Wine: Drinking It!
Vino Latino One thing that drives us crazy is how complicated and intimidating people can make wine. There are big thick books out there with titles such as, “How to Enjoy Wine,” “How to Taste Wine” and about a dozen different volumes of “Wine For Dummies.” It’s no wonder people are hesitant to even open [...]
From Cradle to Conflict: Child Soldiers’ Growing Role in Latin America’s Drug Wars
By Melissa Beale Council on Hemispheric Affairs Approximately 300,000 children around the globe have been recruited as child soldiers. These children are forced to enter “various armed groups, civil militia, paramilitaries and government armed forces.” According to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of a Child, any person under the age of 18 years [...]
Using Research to Move Policy in Highly Obese South Texas
SaludToday Salud America! pilot researcher Dr. Nelda Mier documented a lack of sidewalks, street lights and parks along the poverty-stricken Texas-Mexico border — an environment that she found contributes to obesity and sedentary behavior among Latino children. But this story doesn’t end with just research results. To change the local environment to make it easier [...]
Guest Voz: Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Arguments Over Arizona SB 1070
By Ben Winograd Immigration Impact Almost two years to the day after Arizona enacted the notorious immigration law known as SB 1070, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be the first of many cases over the validity of the measure. Although most critics of the law have focused on its potential for civil [...]
Modern Alchemy’s Secret to Longevity: The Truth about Sugar
By Carlyn Montes De Oca Modern Alchemy My love affair with sugar When I was young, I loved playing sports. Once during my 8th grade softball season, our coach made us a proposition that was too good to be true. She offered to buy an ice cream sundae to any player who hit a home [...]
More time for family and friends
By Andres Ramirez Latino Y Urbano Today I was thinking about the differences in cultures between Latin American countries and the US. I was born in Colombia and lived there until the age of 9 when we then moved to America. I remember that things were very different there compare to how I live my [...]
