ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America

27/06/2024

Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup.

26/06/2024

We analyzed more than 4.1 million U.S. immigration court records amid debates about the U.S.-Mexico border, which often omit what happens to migrants who stay.

26/06/2024

In Book Reviews, Alfred P. Montero, Frank B. Kellogg Professor of political science at Carleton College, reviews Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond, edited by Anthony W. Pereira. " Anthony Pereira’s volume reminds us that there is much more comparative work to do to understand the full scope of the challenges to democracy in Latin America presently and for years to come," he observes.

Scholars of populism in Latin America for much of the period of “the pink tide” in the region during the 2000s and early 2010s associated populism with governments of the left. Presidents such as Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Néstor and Cristina Kirchner (Argentina) and Rafae...

26/06/2024

Venezuela's election is coming up soon. How likely is it that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro will accept the result?

26/06/2024

A big-picture overview of Latin America’s economies, including the question of how much nearshoring is really happening.

25/06/2024

Ieva Jusionyte exposes the cross-border trade that perpetuates a cycle of gun violence.

25/06/2024

Latin America and Spain are in the vanguard when it comes to a human rights context for gay rights, Omar Encarnación asserts in this NYT op-ed piece.

The modest campaign created an opening for today’s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. backlash.

25/06/2024

It shouldn't be a surprise that a fifth of Atlas Obscura's "bucket list" for coffee shops are in Latin America. Two are in Mexico City: Cafebrería El Pendulo and Café La Habana; one in Colombia, Abaco Libro y Café in Cartagena; one in Brazil, Brazil's Coffee Palace in Santos; and Café Brasilero in Montevideo, Uruguay.

A global tour of the world's most interesting cafés.

25/06/2024

An extraterrestrial-themed art exhibit makes the perfect place to crash-land while interacting with Andean culture and history.

25/06/2024

Franciscan Catechist Sr. Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso tells NCR the synod on synodality "will open up ways for us to continue the conversation."

24/06/2024

La ganadora de ‘La casa de los famosos’ se hizo conocer en redes sociales durante la pandemia gracias a su humor, al mismo tiempo que ha venido señalando el racismo y el machismo

24/06/2024

In Book Reviews, Marjorie Miller, the administrator for the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University and a long-time bureau chief in Mexico, reviews Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border by Brown University Professor Ieva Jusionyte. “The book reflects her background as an anthropologist and ethnographer and employs the skills of a journalist,” writes Miller.

Of the millions of fi****ms produced in the United States annually, tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands are smuggled south to Mexico, Brown University professor Ieva Jusionyte writes in Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border. In the seven years she spent researching and ...

23/06/2024

An attack on the family of Colombia's vice president by the EMC has worsened the security situation in Cauca and Valle de Cauca.

23/06/2024

Traffickers in Brazil took advantage of flood chaos in Brazil to hide a boost in ma*****na flows, but more police meant more drug seizures.

23/06/2024

After Venezuelan authorities dismantled Tocorón prison, the Tren de Aragua's home, they said the gang had disappeared. It hasn't.

23/06/2024

Tapachula, on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, has always been a migration hub. But now the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG have arrived.

22/06/2024

Immigration and Customs Enforcement monitors more than a quarter-million migrants in the U.S. through smartphones, but ICE admits its latest technology faces challenges.

22/06/2024

Los gobiernos de estos países negaron a firmar el documento final de la cumbre de unos 100 países realizada en Suiza | Opinión

22/06/2024

A beautiful story by Maria Sachetti.

After President Biden took office, his administration created a program that allows deported veterans to apply to return to the U.S. for humanitarian reasons.

22/06/2024

Rebel groups in rural Colombia are using social media to recruit young people to their ranks.

22/06/2024

Avocados are a thirsty crop with a carbon footprint that’s more than twice that of bananas.

22/06/2024

Political polarization and funding cuts have hammered public faith in the media.

22/06/2024

A U.S. court holds the fruit company accountable for death-squad murders in Colombia.

22/06/2024

An ecopark that treats injured wild animals from all over Argentina and the largest biobank in South America has the support of the public and conservationists

22/06/2024

From semiconductors to critical minerals, Latin America can bolster U.S. economic security, writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in Barron's.

22/06/2024

The Mexican president-elect has revealed cabinet picks for key secretariats, including Foreign Relations and Economy.

22/06/2024

After years of boycotting elections, Venezuela’s opposition has united behind a presidential candidate. The result of the July 28 vote could give way to stability—or still deeper polarization.