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The Real Need for Scholarly Exchanges
By: Daniel Nardini Organizers of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) will hold their scholarly conference in San Francisco this year. LASA has professors, Latin American scholars, and scholars from… Read more
Latino Art Beat Receives Recognition from White House
By: Daniel Nardini This year Latino Art Beat will celebrate its 15th anniversary for holding its art competition. Since it began as a dream by Don Rossi Nuccio’s nephew Daniel… Read more
No More Stop-and-Frisk
By: Daniel Nardini One of New York City Police’s most controversial methods of law enforcement is what is called “stop-and-frisk.” The point of this act is to stop anyone, find… Read more
A Nicaraguan Icon?
By: Daniel Nardini Just a few weeks ago, the last co-founder of the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (i.e. the Sandinistas), Thomas Borge, died from respiratory failure. He was 81…. Read more
Secure Communities Police State
By: Daniel Nardini Last week, the federal government started the Secure Communities program in New York state. The program, initiated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is a cooperative… Read more
The Mayan Message from Xultun
By: Daniel Nardini Archeologists have discovered what seems to be so far the oldest Mayan calendar system in existence at the Xultun site in Guatemala. The series of Mayan numbers… Read more
“Race War” Averted
By: Daniel Nardini The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested ten people of an extremist right wing group called the American Front for possible attacks against immigrants and racial and… Read more
Cubans to be Able to Travel?
By: Daniel Nardini There is now more talk about it than ever before in Havana—the possibility of Cubans to be able to leave Cuba, travel elsewhere and to be able… Read more
Undermining the Detention Center
By: Daniel Nardini The Illinois Senate, normally not always in agreement with the politics of Chicago and Cook County, was in complete agreement about preventing the federal immigration detention center… Read more
“Warning: Death to All Drug Traffickers!”
By: Daniel Nardini This startling and threatening label is at the bottom of every single immigration form a person fills out when going to countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei…. Read more »