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The Rise Of The New Left: Amlo’S Mexico In The 21st Century, Gina Andrade
The Rise Of The New Left: Amlo’S Mexico In The 21st Century, Gina Andrade
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, commonly known by his initials as AMLO, was voted to be the next Presidente de Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos in the country’s general election on July, 1 2018. On July 1, 2018, AMLO won a landslide electoral victory and he assumed presidential office on December 1, 2018. This was AMLO’s third time running for president and many like to think he should have won the first time he ran but Mexico’s corruption problem is big and that 2000 presidential election is often believed to have been rigged. AMLO’s win is significant because of how unexpected it …
Venezuelan Refugee Crisis: A Consequence Of U.S. Economic Sanctions, Joel Alexander Lopez
Venezuelan Refugee Crisis: A Consequence Of U.S. Economic Sanctions, Joel Alexander Lopez
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
Significant trends of outward migration from Venezuela date back to the 1998 election of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. These migratory trends may be attributed to a number of reasons such as political corruption, economic mismanagement and hyper-dependency on oil. Venezuelans have since fled from the political turmoil and extreme economic recession that continues to ravage their country and impoverish their families at an alarming rate. However, it was not until the year 2017 that migration in Venezuela skyrocketed into the state of crisis it is in today.
Stonewall’S Parallel Queer Latinidad, Kassondra Gonzalez
Stonewall’S Parallel Queer Latinidad, Kassondra Gonzalez
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
The Stonewall Riots in New York City marked the official beginning of the U.S. gay rights movement in 1969. Following a police raid, the intense fight between officers and LGBTQ+ bar goers at Manhattan’s Stonewall Inn developed into a series of organized uprisings over the following days. Despite the bar’s predominantly white population, people of color were on the front lines of most physical incidents during the riots as well as other forms of activism (Gan 2007, 131). According to scholar Jessi Gan, the legacy of black and brown activism during this time period has historically been glossed over, particularly …
Dear United States Of America, We Are Children: Unaccompanied Minors At The U.S./Mexico Border, Briana Dominguez
Dear United States Of America, We Are Children: Unaccompanied Minors At The U.S./Mexico Border, Briana Dominguez
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
The United States government creates policies that have systematically excluded nonwhites from being legally recognized as members of U.S. society. Immigration laws have historically been influenced by the cultural construction of race and racism in the United States.
Barbados’ Debt Crisis: The Effects Of Colonialism And Neoliberalism, Noel Chase
Barbados’ Debt Crisis: The Effects Of Colonialism And Neoliberalism, Noel Chase
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
This research project explains the correlation between the tourism sector and Barbados’s cycle of debt. Barbados has continuously incurred debt, from international financing institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, since its independence from Great Britain in 1966. As of 2017, the estimated national debt of Barbados is $7.92 billion (USD).[1] Sir Hillary Beckles, Michael Howard, and other economic experts and professors at the University of the West Indies, believe the country has gone into debt for a variety of different reasons. Barbados incurred such a staggering debt due in part to its violent history of chattel slavery, the …
A Missed Opportunity: Post-Revolutionary Mexican Murals And Incomplete Historical Narratives, Jesus Gandara Ortega
A Missed Opportunity: Post-Revolutionary Mexican Murals And Incomplete Historical Narratives, Jesus Gandara Ortega
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
This research project investigates the sociopolitical factors that contributed to the lack of Afro-Mexican representation in post-revolutionary murals and how the erasure of Afro-Mexicans in government-commissioned propaganda has affected Afro-descendant communities today in Mexico. The post-revolutionary struggles for power to unite the country have all but erased the representation of Afro-descendants in murals, historical records, and among its citizens. The absence of Afro-descendants in post-revolutionary murals contributes to continued stigma and discrimination against Afro-descendants in Mexico.
The Salvadoran Struggle: A Transnational Resistance Against Imperialism, Erik Villalobos
The Salvadoran Struggle: A Transnational Resistance Against Imperialism, Erik Villalobos
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Guatemalan Youth And Education: Family, Environment, And Dropping Out, Katie Grasso
Guatemalan Youth And Education: Family, Environment, And Dropping Out, Katie Grasso
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
Guatemalan education, in rural and urban areas throughout the 21st century, has gone through various fluctuations and has been studied by numerous scholars including Adelman Ainsworth, Bassi et. al, Behrman, Crane, Davis, Rogers, Tumen, and Yount who all study different aspects of education including parental investment, neighborhood life, family life, parental migration, poverty and class issues, and other interdisciplinary aspects of these issues. This project focuses on how sociocultural aspects, like family and environment, effect middle and secondary school dropout rates in both rural and urban Guatemala throughout the 21st century for children ages 13 to 18. In …
Free Trade Does Not Free People, Ernesto Porcari
Free Trade Does Not Free People, Ernesto Porcari
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Honors Program
The following paper is in attempt reveal, analyze and explain the effects the North American Free Trade Agreement specifically along the US-Mexican border region. Starting with the agreement itself, the ratification, and the elements surrounding its implementation, this paper will then move through analyzing the quantitative and qualitative effects NAFTA has had along the border region of the United States and Mexico. Taking those effects, the comparison enshrined in the title: whether free trade frees people (free as in a better life) will be tested and analyzed for a possible grading the results of NAFTA has had. Finally, the future …