According to a report recently published by the Financial Times, the number of deaths per week in Peru totaled 40,100 in excess deaths, or the difference between observed numbers of deaths and expected number of deaths, around July 8th, 2020.…
I had the enormous pleasure of conversing with the journalist, photographer and professor, Marc Espín, co-founder and co-organizer of the project called Descartados. This is a project supported by the NGOs: CORDES, Asociación Rural para la Tercera Edad (ARTE) and Coalición Nacional para…
Archeologist Richard Hansen wants to create a privately managed and US government-funded tourist attraction in Guatemala’s Ancient Mayan city of El Mirador. Hansen and US Republican senator Jim Inhofe, infamous for his denial of climate change, wrote bill S.B.3131 to…
Each year, thousands of bills are introduced in the chambers of Congress, of which only a few hundred survive the complex process to become laws. Although the subject matter of these bills ranges from sports and recreation to immigration to…
Besides having profoundly frigid winters and more than ten thousand lakes, Minnesota wasn’t well-known on a national level, like many Midwestern states. However, its biggest city was brought into the public eye both nationally and internationally after Minneapolis police officer…
Georgia is one of three states to ban undocumented students from attending public universities and paying in-state tuition. To combat educational segregation in Georgia, Freedom University is an organization that strives to advance the human right to education for undocumented…
As a lifelong resident of Tapachula, Mexico, located in the State of Chiapas near the border with Guatemala, Fabiola Diaz has seen migrants pass through her city her whole life. Being half Mexican and half Guatemalan herself, and regularly visiting…
This article is the second part in a series of articles titled Nicaragua Proud. To read Part I, click here. Nicaraguans’ demonstrated against the Ortega/Murillo regime on 18 April 2018. Immediately after the demonstrations began, the government violently repressed those…
Modern Day Segregation: Undocumented Students Continue to be Banned from Georgia Public Universities
Under Georgia Board of Regents, Policy 4.1.6, any student who is not residing in the United States legally is not allowed to achieve a college education as they are banned from public state universities. The Senate Bill 492 passed in…
The gridlock in Congress seems to deepen each year. Political debates between the two major parties exacerbate tensions, legislative output remains stagnant, and a prevailing sense of pessimism is felt by legislators and constituents alike. These sentiments heighten when we…