Feb 24, 2016 | Caribbean, Colombia, Education, LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Jose Luis Guevara Salamanca, Research Student, Institute of Latin American Studies I am writing this post one year after arriving in London. Having finished my undergraduate studies in 2005 in Colombia I began looking for a place abroad where I could develop my...
Feb 2, 2016 | Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Latin America, South America
by Christine Anderson (Latin America Research Librarian) and Julio Cazzasa (Special Collections Cataloguer), Senate House Library On 23 February 2016, Senate House Library will be hosting “Thinking Inside the Boxes”, a series of talks about its extensive...
Dec 18, 2015 | Amazonas, Caribbean, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America, Venezuela
by Dr Amy Penfield, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2015-16 On the morning of Monday 7th December, I was greeted with news reports of the Venezuelan ruling socialist party’s (PSUV) landslide defeat in the previous day’s parliamentary elections, accompanied by images of...
Oct 14, 2015 | Latin America, Peru
by Camilla Capasso, Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme Máxima lives in Peru, in a house by the Blue Lagoon of Celendin in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Like most campesinos of her community, Máxima and her family are subsistence farmers and herders. The...
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