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...
Sep 29, 2015 | Dominican Republic, LAC and the World, Latin America
by José R. Sánchez-Fung, Assistant Professor in Economics at University of Nottingham China (Ningbo) and Associate Fellow of ILAS I am currently a full-time member of the economics faculty at the University of Nottingham’s Business School in Ningbo, China. I moved to...
Jun 29, 2015 | Latin America, Mexico
by Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology at University of Southampton and Visiting Fellow at Institute of Latin American Studies During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there...
Jun 11, 2015 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Javier Farje, Journalist, TV Presenter, Consultant, and former Editor of Latin America Bureau In 2009, on the eve of the Conference of the Parties 15 (COP 15), in Copenhagen, the World Bank published a revealing document. Entitled Low Carbon, High Growth, Latin...
May 27, 2015 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Jo Morley, Postgraduate Student on the SAS Human Rights Consortium MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights April 2015 brought the news that Eduardo Galeano, whose seminal book The Open Veins of Latin America established him as one of the region’s most...
May 12, 2015 | Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by Dr Luis Pérez-Simon, Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research, Institute of Latin American Studies It is a historical fact that Cuba has always punched above its weight in matters economic, political and cultural, especially starting in the latter part...
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