“Minari,” Language, and the Pain of Categorization
Apparently, through a year and a pandemic, the Golden Globes organization has yet to understand that the language of a film’s dialogue is not what defines the f...
Category: Americas
Our Americas desk covers all of North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
A Means to End Nuclear Proliferation: An Argument for U.S. Recommitment to an Iran Nuclear Deal
The City of Music is set to host a round of negotiations on a potential return to the magnum opus of nuclear agreements next week. Vienna, Austria’s capital cit...
The Prospect of Radically Inclusive Love in Latin America
While holding Cuba’s first LGBTQ+ friendly mass, Alexya Salvador, a Brazilian transgender pastor, proclaimed God’s love to be radically inclusive. [1] Her words...
A “Growing Concern”: The Public’s Xenophobia Toward and Discrimination Against Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador
Introduction Since 2015, over 4.7 million Venezuelans have left their country and become part of the largest exodus in the history of Latin America (UNHCR, 2020...
Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”
This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...
The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa
The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...
Critiquing the Canon: Pancho Fierro and Peruvian costumbrismo
Art is not neutral; nor is its history. As it currently stands, the conventional canon of the history of art is rich with Western artists representing other cul...
Below Us: A Very Brief History of Modern U.S.-Latin America Relations and Trump’s Legacy
As we approach the end of President Donald J. Trump’s first term as occupant of the White House, it is valuable to reflect on his relationship with countries to...
Fault Lines in the Legal Basis for America’s ‘Snapback’
On 14 August 2020, the United States of America introduced a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’ or ‘the Council’), to extend the in...
21st-Century Powder Keg: How Bolivia’s Military Coup Puts South American Democracies At Risk
The United States has an unfortunate history of inserting itself into any region that contains a coveted resource. From our expansion into Mexican-owned lands i...
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