Peculiar alliances
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One of the most counterintuitive sights in the referendum on #Colombia’s historic peace agreement between the government and FARC rebels, was a coalition between #Human_Rights_Watch (HRW) and former President Álvaro Uribe in favor of a “no” vote. At the beginning of October, Colombian voters narrowly rejected a comprehensive historic peace agreement that would […]
On the brink of peace
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It seems as if Gabriel García Márquez, by divination, foresaw what would happen in #Colombia this month, when he wrote in his seminal work, One Hundred Years of Solitude: “It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent […]
Budgets, bureaucracy and realpolitik trump #human_rights advocacy
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The year 2015 was El Salvador’s deadliest since the end of that country’s civil war in 1992. According to police records, more than six thousand people were murdered. Elsewhere, in Honduras, Brazil and Columbia, dozens of environmental activists are under attack. And in the Dominican Republic, thousands of Dominicans of Haitian ancestry are on the […]
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Americas #Funding #Inter-American_Commission_for_Human_Rights #OAS
#Football and power in #Colombia : in bed since 1948
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When thirty years ago #Noemí_Sanín – then Minister of Communications of Colombia – asked the directors of the main news media outlets in the country to stop their reports from the burning Palace of Justice and, instead, to broadcast a boring Millonarios-Unión Magdalena game, she was not being innovative. Football has been, throughout the country’s […]
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Bogotazo #Dimayor #Futbol #Jorge_Eliécer_Gaitán #narcos #soccer
The struggle for #Afrodescendant rights
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In the short span since its inception, the Latin American Afrodescendant movement has had an extraordinary impact on the formulation of anti-racism policy in Latin America and beyond. Its origins.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Harvard #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference
Anti-racism in Latin America discussion arrives at #Harvard
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A Symposium entitled “Afrodescendants: Fifteen Years after Santiago. Achievements and Challenges” recently took place from December 4th to 5th at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute of the Hutchins Center for.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #race #racism #United_States #Afrodescendant #Afro-Latinos #Santiago_Conference
#Brazil’s Cold Welcome to Dr. #carl_hart
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Brazil’s mythological ethos of racial democracy exhausted itself, again, this past August. Dr. Carl Hart, neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University, was invited to São Paulo by the Brazilian Institute.....
Anti-Dominicanism, a No Lesser Evil
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In the recent crisis involving #Haiti and the #Dominican_Republic, the world seems to be lacking stories that show Dominicans in identification with human rights or #blackness. In the absence.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Caribbean #deportation #immigration #race
Come to the Third #Festejo Pachone in Bogotá
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About five years ago, three friends and I gathered in an apartment in downtown Bogotá, #Colombia, and decided to create an online radio station. We called it #Radio_Pachone. We.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Arts #Bogotá #Capital_de_Festivales #culture #Festejo_Pachone #Festival #Music
#Guatemala’s new president: a #blackface star backed by the military
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Jimmy Morales, a Evangelical Christian and a former TV star who has never held public office, was elected as the new president of Guatemala. In the second round election held.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Central_America #elections #genocide #Ixil_Maya #Jimmy_Morales
The Dream and the Illusion of #South_American_Unity
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It is a grandiose idea to think of consolidating the New World into a single nation, united by pacts into a single bond. It is reasoned that, as these parts.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #America #CELAC #Colombia #Ecuador #Mercosur #OAS #OEA #South_America #Suramérica #Unasur #Venezuela
Where is “America” ?
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Last week marked the 523th anniversary of the day when Christopher #Columbus (or Cristoforo Colombo, or Cristóbal Colón, depending on which biography you believe) and his Spanish ships arrived to #America.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Americans #Columbus_Day #History #Latin_America #North_America #South_America #US #Why_is_the_us_called_america
#Colombia, the #Peace_Process and an historic handshake
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Some handshakes, either famously or infamously, have sealed an inflection point in the narrative course of history. Mandela and Frederik de Klerk, Pinochet and Kissinger, Raúl Castro and Obama. Last.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Farc #Havana #Juan_Manuel_Santos #Timochenko
The #Young_Lords In #New_York Exhibit: A timely and provocative look at a political movement
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In 1970, a young man of color who was a member of a radical group was sent to prison; shortly thereafter, he was found dead under suspicious circumstances, and his.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Art #Bronx_Museum_of_the_Arts #El_Museo_del_Barrio #Loisiada_Center #nyc #Puerto_Rico
Between the Volcano and the Tyrant: Political Dissent Erupts in #Ecuador
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After 134 years of dormancy, Ecuador’s #Cotopaxi volcano began spewing ash on August 13th. The 5,897-meter giant’s initial rumblings generated wide-spread panic due to its close proximity to the nation’s.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Indigenous #Politics #Quechua #Rafael_Correa
At the Heart of the #West_indies Parade
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In New York City, Labor Day is associated with the West Indies Carnival. This enormous parade is a magnetic force that attracts, on average, one million spectators every year. It.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Afro-Caribbean #Brooklyn #Caribbean #Crown_Heights #Eastern_Parkway #Flatbush #Jouvay #Prospect_Park #West_Indies_Parade
One Hundred Academics for #Ayahuasca Dignity in #Colombia
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Yagé, or ayahuasca, is the name of a plant and also of a beverage made from it that is used in many native tribes in the Upper Amazon in South.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Alberto_José_Varela #Cofanes #Queribín_Queta #Taita #Yagé #Yajé
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY in the #Afro-Latino_Festival in NYC
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The third edition of the wonderful Afro-Latino Festival was held in #New_York City between July 10th and July 12th. The festival included amazing concerts from traditional musicians that carry on.....
#Amílcar_Priestley #Bolívar #Colombia #Cumbia #Fetival_Afro-Latino #Harlem #Los_Gaiteros_de_San_Jacinto #Madiba #Mai-Elka_Prado #Music #Rafael_Castro #San_Jacinto
What is “Champeta Urbana”? An #interview with #Kevin_Flórez
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Kevin Flórez is one of the main stars of an up-and-coming Colombian genre dubbed as “champeta urbana.” #Champeta, without the “urbana,” is on of the most traditional rhythm of his native.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Cartagena #Champeta_Urbana #Colombia #hip_hop #Music #New_York
On #Music, Tradition and Race : #Los_Gaiteros_de_San_Jacinto take #Brooklyn
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When I was a kid, my dad, my stepdad and one of my dad’s friends sometimes helped organize concerts in Bogotá for this band called Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto......
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Afro-Colombians #AfroLatino_Festival #Afrolatinos #Bushwick #Colombia #Cumbia #The_Wick
“El Chapo”‘s (New) #Escape
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These days the fonda where I usually eat has been packed with Policía Federal officers. The fonda was designated as one of the official restaurants for the troop sent to Oaxaca to contain.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #El_Chapo #Enrique_Peña_Nieto #EPN #Joaquín_Guzmán_Loera #Mexico #War_on_Drugs
“El Chapo”‘s (New) #Escape
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These days the fonda where I usually eat has been packed with Policía Federal officers. The fonda was designated as one of the official restaurants for the troop sent to Oaxaca to contain.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #El_Chapo #Enrique_Peña_Nieto #EPN #Joaquín_Guzmán_Loera #Mexico #War_on_Drugs
#Shake_the_dust : How #break_dancing Unites the World
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Shake the Dust is a documentary film directed by journalist Adam Sjöberg, and produced by American rapper and producer Nasir “Nas” Jones. The movie is a showcase of the break.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Bogotá #Cambodia #Colombia #Don_Popo #Familia_Ayara #hip_hop #Music #Uganda #Yemen
#Chile’s #Copa_América – Can #Football Still be Political ?
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Copa América, the South American football championship, is over and, for the first time ever, Chile are the champions. To lift their first-ever piece of silverware, Chile, who also hosted.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Alexis_Sánchez #Bachelet #Chile_2015 #Claudio_Pizarro #Indigenous_People #Jean_Beausejour #Mapuche #Mapundungun #Pinochet #Quechua #soccer
“Liniersgate” – Is This Cartoon Wrong?
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The image that you see above was circulated often on social media last week after the United States Supreme Court legalized #same-sex_marriage in all of the 50 states of.....
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Argentina #Black_Power_Salute #civil_rights #LGBT_rights #Liniers