A Unesco study reveals that 51.1% of sixth grade students in 16 Latin American countries have been victims of theft, as well as verbal and physical abuse, inflicted by their fellow students, Vistazo reports. Students that are victims of bullying perform significantly worse in reading and math than students who are not. Colombia had the highest rate of theft between students of this age among countries studied, while student in Argentina experience the highest rate of physical and verbal abuse. Cuban students suffered the least in all three categories. Additionally, the presence of bullying was much less frequent in rural schools in most countries. Read Article
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Sanghyun Ryu, a Korean soccer player, was unable to find any rooms in the 7 hotels that he checked in Medellín, and so the taxi driver who picked him up at the airport offered him to stay at his house during the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Sanghyun Ryu expressed that the family gives a good […]
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Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have found two partially mummified bodies and one skeleton of Tarahumara (Rarámuri) ancestry in a large cave in the Chihuahuan mountains, Noticieros Televisa reports. The bodies are believed to be between 800 and 1000 years old and are part of a pre-Hispanic cemetery in which […]
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In an interview with Público, two Mexican writers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Hector de Mauleón, spoke about the effect of the war on drugs on journalism in Mexico. Both have written books on the subject. They say that journalism has turned into a high-risk profession and that there are parts of the country in which […]
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More than 100 large pieces from the Olmec civilization, which date back more than 4000 years, are being presented at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City as part of the exposition Colossal Works of the Olmec World, according to a release from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The exhibition includes […]
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Over the last decade, Latin American protest songs have undergone a revolution, going from poetic ode to explicit, raw hip-hop. The first protest songs sung in Central and South America were corridos, ballads that were sung during the revolution that started in Mexico in 1910. The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s were modern […]
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•The FIFA U-20 World Cup begins today in Colombia after the opening ceremony at 7:25 p.m. in the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquilla according to caracol.com.co. •The first game will be between Brazil and Egypt. •The soccer tournament will be covered by over 2000 reporters from all over the world and will have an […]
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After four years of investigations, specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have confirmed that the pre-Hispanic Xiximes in northern Mexico practiced cannibalism for religious purposes, according to a report released by the institute. Anthropological studies on 40 sets of human bones revealed that they showed signs of being cut and boiled, […]
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According to DiarioCorreo.pe, on Monday July 25th officials of the Ecological Police of Cusco warned of a huge wildfire a few kilometers from the archaeological site of Pikillacta. Officials say the fire began around noon and they are unable to contain it by the time the warning was made public. Officials are seeking help from […]
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•During the FIFA U-20 World cup, soon to begin, Colombia will participate in the environmental program “Green Goal” which will consist of calculating and compensating for the carbon footprint that the tournament will leave. •Cartorce6.com reports that this will be accomplished by planting 35,000 trees and will help raise awareness of the environment to all […]
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Illegal woodcutting in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve fell from 3.85 affected acres in 2009 to just 1.19 acres in 2010, Notimex reports. The positive results are due to renewed efforts to protect the winter habitat of the Monarch butterfly, including effective monitoring of the central area of the reserve. The efforts were helped by […]
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Peruvian authorities have recently recovered cultural goods that were confiscated in Switzerland, Denmark, and Spain reported HispanTV. The antiques, which were recovered by a joint effort of the Peruvian diplomatic mission and authorities, consisted of 55 pieces of metal, ceramic, and textile of different cultures throughout Peru. Read article.
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The local administration is presenting a plan of action to save the famed river boat district of Xochimilco, El Universal reports. The wetlands district has experienced extreme deterioration, despite investments by state and federal agencies. The local government is pairing with the Ministry of Environment and the Natural Resources commission to estimate the costs of […]
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Reporting from Machu Picchu, Peru— At the top of the mountain, where an attendant will take your $46 ticket, foot traffic is steady and cellphone reception is excellent. At the bottom of the same mountain, the town teems with pizzerias, tourists chatter in half a dozen languages and a school band director is herding his […]
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Professors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) say that the Line 4 (L4) bus line construction project is accelerating the damage rate to Mexico City’s historic district, El Universal reports. Most of the district’s buildings date back to the 17th century. Academics and unhappy neighbors are protesting the construction project, saying they will […]
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Somehow I’ve ended up helping to cater a party in Havana, and a burly, jovial architect called Rafael is asking me whether I’ve heard of Radio Bemba. Basically it’s the Cuban grapevine: “Bemba” is a slang word for big lips, and the expression has its origins in the way Fidel Castro communicated with his men […]
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According to ElNorte.ec tourism in Otavalo has increase significantly in the month of July, where authorities say about 10,000 tourists have made their way to the Plaza de Ponchos and other popular tourist sites in Otavalo. Officials say in previous years the tourist season picked up in August, but this year July seems to have […]
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According to RPP.com.pe the Regional Director of Culture, Juan Julio Garcia Rivas says the availability of tickets is not their responsibility and that all ticket sales for Machu Picchu have to be made online or through an authorized ticket agency. Rivas says tourists that were not able to enter Machu Picchu in the last couple […]
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“The Birtplace of the Water God”, as translated by its Nahuatl name, Atecozol is a growing tourist destination in El Salvador informed De Vacaciones. With 24 acres of land, Atecozol maintains a balance between its water park and forest preserve. Last year more than 222 thousand visited, and the park is sure to remain an […]
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Committees of self-management tourism (CAT), optimistically wait for a boost in tourism this fall to meet expectations of the Guatemalan Institute of tourism (Inguat), inform PrensaLibre.com. Inguat is expecting around 35 thousand Salvadorians for the Savior of the World festivities, which prompted the preparation of several promotions. CAT hopes that the sudden increase in tourism […]
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According to ElComercio.pe archeologists found remains that date back 700 years 25 kilometers from the archeological site of Chotuna-Chornancap. Scientists believe that the findings are connected to the ancient belief of human sacrifice. Along with human remains, scientists found altars, friezes, ceremonial knives, pottery, copper objects and other objects from the Lambayeque civilization. The director […]
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Cuban Fiestas – Recorded interview with author Dr. Roberto González Echevarría. (Recording Time – 01:29.52) Recorded July 14, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:Cuban Fiestas (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta […]
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According to ElComercio.pe many tourists in Peru are deciding to experience the cuisine of Peru on specialty food tours. Tourists are able to visit popular local markets in Lima and participate in preparation of ceviches and pisco sours. The cuisine tour operator, Culinary Tours, takes tourists through the Surquillo Market were they get to see […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that many Peruvian restaurants are offering free pisco sours in order to attract customers. However, these piscos are causing the reputation of Peru’s national drink to suffer since they are usually made with the pisco alcohol and use poor quality ingredients. In Cusco, where the drinks reputation is suffering, the Regulatory Council of […]
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A joint study between the University of Southern California and the Mexico City campus of Monterrey Technological University is revealing key facts about Internet use in Mexico. The study, known as the World Internet Project (WIP), has been studying the habits of Internet users and non-users since 2007. Despite the fact that most families in […]
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Peruvian company Paiche Amazone — subsidiary of the Hochschild group –signed a contract with the French company Adrien to start marketing Peruvian paiche in the most sophisticated restaurants in Europe. Read Article
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Two elaborate, life-size sculptures of Mayan warriors were discovered at the archaelogical site of Toniná in southern Chiapas, El Universal reports. Archaeologists say the stone sculptures are approximately 1300 years old and depict in detail two captured warriors. They also have hieroglyphic inscriptions and specialists believe the information related by the sculptures will shed light […]
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PERU Indigenous Women Weave New Community Ties By Milagros Salazar Vilma Matías weaving on a loom at the Lucanamarca workshop. Credit:Milagro Salazar/IPS Buy this picture LUCANAMARCA, Peru, Fuchsia, green and turquoise yarn shuttles swiftly across the wooden loom Dora Huancahuari has learned to use. Together with other craftswomen, she has started a small weaving business […]
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First ever National Nutritional Intake Survey finds Chileans develop unhealthy habits. The traditional pattern of eating four daily meals has nearly disappeared from the average Chilean’s life, the first ever National Nutritional Intake Survey found. Other notable changes include a drop in consumption of fish and seafood among the average Chileans. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.com today, Thursday June 30th in Santiago, Chile more than 100,000 people marched through the streets demanding improvement of the public education system, including lowering costs in Chile. The peaceful marchers made their way to the Ministry of Education and the Presidential Palace. This is one of the largest protests in the last […]
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Archaeologists with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have found what is believed to be the largest pre-Hispanic cemetery yet discovered at the archaeological site of Comalcalco in Tabasco, Milenio reports. Archaeologists originally believed they were excavating housing remains, but soon discovered 66 funerary urns and 50 burial sites, all between 1,161 and […]
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Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life – Recorded interview with author Dr. Amy Chazkel (Recording Time – 01:17:01) PURCHASE BOOKLaws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (Radical Perspectives) The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that many “clinics” that offer a cure to homosexuality actually participate in the abuse and mistreatment of individuals under their care. This past Wednesday, June 22nd, Paola spoke in front of about 70 people in Quito describing her experience being taken from her home to one of these “clinics.” In many cases including […]
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A small video camera has allowed archaelogists to discover a large tomb– untouched for over 1500 years– amid the Mayan ruins at Palenque, ABC Mexico reports. The tomb is believed to be of a high-ranking official who lived in the period between 431 and 550 ACE. The images from the video camera show red-painted walls […]
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Authorities at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have gathered a large panel of Mexican and Israeli experts for the symposium “Archaeology, Heritage and Identity: Challenges for the 21st Century. Mexico-Israel,” to be held between June 20 and June 23, 2011, El Economista reports. Twenty-eight total sessions will be held at the symposium. […]
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A recent ComScore report shows that Argentineans spend the most time on Facebook in all of Latin America and are second, behind Israel, for the most time spent on the social network in the world, according to islabit.com. Of the 27.4 hours an average Argentinean spends online a month, 9 of those are devoted to […]
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The jar of Severed Hands Spanish Deportation of Apache Perisoners of War 1770-1810 – Recorded Interview with author Mark Santiago (Recording Time – 01:08:26) The Jar of Severed Hands: The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810 Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first […]
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Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement- Recorded interview with co-author Dr. Scott H. Beck (Dr. J. Mijeski) (Recording Time – 01:16:21) Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories […]
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Reporters from conexionbrando.com find 15 restaurants in Buenos Aires Federal Capital where you can eat for less than 50 pesos. Ranging from cafe classics like coffee with milk accompanied by a warm croissant at Le Blé in Chacarita to jazzed up French cuisine at Le Bistrot de la Alianza Francesa downtown. Or try a more […]
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Refugee rights organizations are calling for reflection and citizen participation in Mexico for June 20, World Refugee Day, La Jornada reports. Refugees face intolerant attitudes, discrimination and challenges to integrating in Mexican society despite a series of new laws protecting refugees and migrants. According to the 2010 National Survey on Discrimination, 26.6% of Mexicans would […]
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Dr. José Alfonso Yamamoto Nagano, head of the Division of Organ, Tissue and Cell Donations and Transplants at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), said Mexico need to develop a culture of organ donation, according to Grupo Fórmula. With chronic and degenerative diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity and heart conditions on the rise in […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that Guayaquil will house the new municipal Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art between the street of Rocafuerte and Loja. Melvin Hoyos, director of municipal Culture and Civic Promotion says that the center will house the cultural property of more than 14,000 pieces that was unable to be accommodated by the municipal museum. […]
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Mexican authors Álvaro Enrique and Sandra Lorenzano gave an interview for El Universal in which they discussed the absent father figure in Mexican literature. The authors agreed that the father who is not physically or emotionally present paradoxically embodies a powerful influence over patriarchal Mexican society, as well as over their abandoned or orphaned children. […]
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On Wednesday June 8th the National Commission of the Fight Against Illicit Trafficking of Ecuador’s Heritage, held a meeting to discuss the illegal trafficking of Ecuador’s cultural property. Interpol reports that the drug trafficking, arms, sex trade, and trade of cultural property are the three largest illegal money-moving networks in the world. Ecuador has lost […]
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Attracted by the fame of the Habanos cigars, hundreds of tourists tour tobacco plantations and cigar factories in this Cuban province, the birthplace of the best tobacco in the world. While some prefer to visit the fields where the aromatic plant grows – under the sun or soft covers – others admire the dexterity of […]
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Mexican archaeologists have found a grave in Monterrey containing ten skeletons they believe to be U.S. soldiers from the Mexican-American War, SDP Noticias reports. The height of the skeletons and the shape of the skulls exhibit Caucasian characteristics, supporting the hypothesis that the soldiers fought for the United States. They are believed to have died […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Ecuadorians are marrying less and divorcing more often, the results of a study completed by the Ecuadorian Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). The study finds that the divorce rates have increased 68.8% in a decade. Furthermore, the study shows that marriages did not rise with the population growth from 2000 to […]
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A Salvadoran beat out baristas from 56 countries to take home first place honors at the 2011 World Barista Championship held in Bogota, Colombia earlier this week. After his win, 23-year-old Alejandro Mendez said he was proud to represent the coffee producers of a small country such as El Salvador and was happy both for […]
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•According to Samuel Azout, the high Counselor for Social Prosperity, the high birth rate is one factor, especially of adolescent mothers, that prolongs the high rate of poverty in Colombia per rcnradio.com. •Azout states that early pregnancies prevent young mothers from being economically productive and attaining a formal education •He describes a plan by the […]
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The campaign proposed this month by the National Departments of Health and Agriculture called “Argentina 2014 free of trans fats” aims to reduce the consumption of these fats that cause high blood pressure. This condition leads to hypertension and cardiovascular disease which account for 32% of all deaths in Argentina, according to saludable.infobae.com. The proposal […]
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The indigenous Guaraní culture in Paraguay is kept alive today through music.
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The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador – Recorded interview with Dr.Michael Uzendoski – (Recording Time – 01:25:49) Purchase Book – The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador (Interp Culture New Millennium) (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) An indigenous Amazonian group’s enlightening perspectives on value, reproduction, and exchange Based upon historical and archival research, as well as […]
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Although his former agent, Fernán Martínez, stated that the Colombian artist would take a three to four year break, Juanes says that he is simply taking a month off to dedicate to his family per elespectador.com. He affirmed his continued dedication to music and expressed a need to redirect his music when communicating with Efe. […]
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The works of eight artists from Latin America reached record prices this Friday in an auction held by Christie’s in New York, where he noted the more than one million dollars paid for a painting by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias. Read Article
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Reporters from conexionbrando.com chronicle their search for the most bizarre food in Chinatown located in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is common for many Porteños to visit Chinatown for fresh fish and vegetables, herbal teas, spices and sushi, but not so common to them are sweets like Sanko-Seika’s puffed rice and peanuts featuring […]
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Reporters from conexionbrando.com share their experience after visiting a yerba and tea plantation in Corrientes called Las Marías. By following longtime grower and tea connoisseur, Néstor Galvalisi, they learn about the process of harvesting, drying, resting, testing and packaging tea and yerba. Galvalisi treats his crops with love during the harvesting process and sends the […]
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A report released by the private consulting firm, Prince and Cooke, shows that 66% of the Argentine population accesses the internet from different locations and with different devices. At the end of last year 27 million people were online, showing a 17.4% increase just that year. According to ambito.com, the report explains the increase in […]
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Yesterday the president, along with a band of elite government officials, inaugurated the Bicentennial Museum with emotional remarks about the history and the future of Argentina, according to pagina12.com. The museum showcasing 201 years of national history is located behind the Casa Rosada in what was once ruins of the first Fort of Buenos Aires. […]
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Argentina, a history of film An in-depth look at filmmaking in Argentina from the influx of immigrants and the introduction of moving pictures in the late 19th century to a now semi-stagnant production of national films. According to argentinaindependent.com, the film industry still suffers from past political turmoil and competition from Hollywood, but has produced […]
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Make the leap from traditional analog TV to digital mean for Costa Rican households about $ 272 million in the next six years. + MULTIMEDIA RELATED NEWS Country will use TLC to bring ‘tele’ flights This amount includes the purchase of new screens, and the decoder, a device that allows the user to receive the […]
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They begin arriving in early evening. These are children, adults and squalid women, some pregnant women, who form a battalion of crack addicts who walk toward the sidewalk stunned the parking lot of a supermarket in the center of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense. Under Secretaries of Social Promotion and community councils, the scene […]
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Research shows that Incas built citadels such as Machu Picchu after the earlier achievement of agriculture at high altitudes through the use of llama dung. Manure from llama herds provided fertiliser which enabled corn to be cultivated at very high altitudes, allowing the Inca civilisation to flourish in the Andes and conquer much of South […]
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In a decade working as a nanny, Andreia Soares finally clambered up the ladder into Brazil’s middle class. Andreia Soares played with a child at her employer’s home. The training she has received has helped her command higher pay. With the money she saved, she bought a two-bedroom apartment with granite kitchen countertops and a […]
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Although there is still time, it is best to start saving up for a new digital television set as Costa Rica moves to “digital only” television on December 15, 2017. On that date, free television – signals picked up by antenna and rabbit ears – will only air digitally. Read Article
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Argentine Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government’s probe of crimes committed by Argentina’s dictatorship, died Saturday morning April 30 at the age of 99 in his Buenos Aires residence, from complications related to bronchitis, though he was in ill health during his latter years including being affected by partial blindness. Sabato only wrote three […]
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Religious liberty is growing in Cuba after a half-century of repression, and the Roman Catholic Church is more able to pursue a humanitarian, public mission than it has been for many years, the archbishop of Havana said Thursday in Omaha. Read Article
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A group of mothers held a group session on breastfeeding in São Paulo, in the Brazilian Southeast, as a protest. The “Mamaço” (Big Breastfeeding Event), as the event was called, happened in events center of Itaú Cultural, on Avenida Paulista, a public space sponsored by Itaú, one of Brazil’s largest financial institutions. Read Article
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Bolivia was the site of a mass wedding with 350 couples married at the same time. The Andean mass wedding had all couples married in accordance to their customs and traditions of their Indian heritage. “Indian religious leaders presided over the wedding as did symbolically Pachamama — the earth deity of the Aymara and Quechua […]
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Brazil’s high court formally opened deliberations Wednesday on granting gays and lesbians the right to form civil unions, and on guaranteeing them the same legal rights as other couples. President Dilma Rousseff’s top prosecutor Attorney General Roberto Gurgel has backed the plan. Read Article
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In the darkened theater, a mother rocked her baby while another breastfed her little girl. It’s part of a new trend in Brazil where moms go to the movies with baby bottles, diapers and toys. “Getting out of the house with a baby requires a certain amount of organization,” said Irene Nagashima as she placed […]
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Visitors can ski in mountain ranges including the Cebollera and La Demanda, cycle through country lanes, hunt, fish or play golf. But it is wine production that is the biggest contributor to the region’s economy and tasting tours lure many holidaymakers to the area. Read Article
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While known to be in relatively small numbers, here is a video from 2008 depicting Skinheads in Ecuador.
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“Fewer postcards, more reality” is the rallying cry of Chile’s port city of Valparaiso. Residents of this picturesque but dilapidated city have taken to the streets over the city’s inability to keep its iconic cable cars clattering up and down its fabled hills. The “ascensores” are the trademark of a city whose residents are fiercely […]
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Brazilian police say at least four soccer fans have been shot during a fight before a match. Police say 80 fans have been detained after the incident Sunday in which six other people were hurt. Read Article
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The president of Brazil’s only public golf course is threatening to “lay down kids” in the middle of the fairways to keep government bulldozers from entering the property, constructing a new highway and destroying the course. Read Article
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MEXICO has just pulled off its once-a-decade miracle of quizzing 112m souls about their lives and habits. The census results, presented to journalists today, form a mountain of data that your correspondent will mine for stories over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are a few findings that jumped out at him, in […]
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After a peak at 1.140 million units in 2006, the Mexican new car market had been slipping down, accelerating its fall to minus 26 percent in 2009. The drop was halted in 2010 when the market grew 9 percent at 820,406 registrations. So far, 2011 is looking pretty good too, with a 12 percent increase […]
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A Bolivian couple who hadn’t been able to afford a formal wedding reception got some royal treatment Friday when they shared their day of matrimony with a British prince and his bride. Britain’s ambassador to Bolivia invited Fabianna Rivera, 24, and Alejandro Antezana, 29, to the embassy for a champagne toast to honor the marriage […]
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Indigenous Writings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico – Recorded interview with Dr.Mónica Díaz – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) (See all History of Mexico Books) Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María […]
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LESSONS FROM A QUECHUA STRONGWOMAN: IDEOPHONY, DIALOGUE, AND PERSPECTIVE – Recorded author interview with Dr. Janis B. Nuckolls – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman: Ideophony, Dialogue and Perspective (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena […]
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It’s a dead-slow news day in Brazil, so it’s as good a time as any to revisit one of the weirder aspects of life here: the truly crazy rates consumers here pay when they borrow money. We’ve written about this before, but it’s something you almost have to see to believe. Read Article
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Green iguana, slider turtles and the world’s largest rodent, capybara: it’s not a trip to the zoo. It’s what’s for traditional Easter dinner in Colombia. “This is the season we have them all coming in,” said nutritionist Carolina Rangel, at a center for confiscated animals in the Colombian capital. She showed AFP about 30 confiscated […]
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Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, regarded as one of Latin America’s greatest modern writers, has died in Santiago at the age of 93, his family has announced. Rojas, who was forced into exile after the 1973 military coup, died today after suffering a debilitating stroke two months ago, one of his sons said. Read Article
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The Maltese are well known for having big hearts. I experienced the truth of this statement during the past nine years, since I left home for missionary work in Tarija, Bolivia. The Maltese Carmelite Fathers in Bolivia are conveying hope and dignity to 60 per cent of the population through projects that encourage them how […]
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Politics makes for bedfellows, strange and otherwise, in Santiago Mitre’s “The Student,” a taut, incisive look at university wheeling and dealing. Providing an excellent platform for the subtle acting talents of rising young star Esteban Lamothe as an apathetic collegian-turned-crafty operative, pic is most acutely a metaphor for Argentine political machinations, though so universal in […]
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Colombian household is increasingly marked tendency to serve the wines produced.Today in the country, besides the traditional cabernet sauvignon and merlot grape wines are drunk as carmenere, malbec, syrah or pinot noir (in red), whereas in white, the classic sauvignon blanc and chardonnay, has joined forces with the torrontes. Read Article
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After a 7-year process conducted by legal and diplomatic ways before the German Government, which concluded with success, Mexico recovered 49 archaeological pieces illegally subtracted from national territory. This is the first delivery made to Mexico of Prehispanic objects seized in 2004 in Frankfurt, part of the Patterson Collection. Read Article
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April 20 (4:20) is a special day for marijuana smokers around the world, many lighting up to mark the occasion, sometimes even in public places like parks, and sometimes in fairly large groups. In Costa Rica a group of 70 youths gathered in Costa Rica’s Plaza de la Democracia de celebrate the day, taking the […]
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With a strong presence of policy conferences, today inaugurated the 37 th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, after a controversy provoked by the visit of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, rejected by intellectuals close to the government of Cristina Kirchner. In the venue of La Rural is expecting more than one […]
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‘Border Crossings – Transnational Americanist Anthropology’ – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare (Co-editor, Dr. Steven L. Rebenstein) (Recording Time – 01:04:57) Purchase Book – Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as […]
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Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She grew up bombarded by the first video games and surrounded by people who talked more about how to get […]
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The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction. Read Article
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Textiles and rope fragments found in a Peruvian cave have been dated to around 12,000 years ago, making them the oldest textiles ever found in South America, according to a report in the April issue of Current Anthropology. Read Article
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As demonstrated by Joseph, this office is not exclusive to women, because for every 19 households there is a man who exercises that work for all, time is the worst enemy because they have cooking, cleaning, ironing and perform daily chores in homes of their employers. Joseph lives in Potosí, a department that, like Beni, […]
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Conducted for the first time last October, the evaluation showed that 89% of students couldn’t understand everyday phrases and short, simple texts. Acknowledging the poor results, Education Minister Joaquín Lavín admitted that it was not a surprise, as “we know our reality and we knew our weaknesses, but we must be clear that what is […]
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Since 1984 is based in Quito, more than 25 years of experience in Ecuador and 35 as an actor. Christoph Baumann is married to actress Tamara Nabas with whom he has just carried out a project called “Tables on wheels”, which is based on a truck with a drop-scene, in which just go around the […]
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Our corruption, crime and government mistakes are based on a unique scandal system and not the rule of law. Don´t get me wrong. We go through the judicial motions, but that´s where it ends. “Scandal” trumps the legal system for both the famous and infamous. Read Article
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Pamela Yates, director of the new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and a documentary filmmaker with Skylight Pictures, believes taking a journalistic film about war crimes prosecution to the Academy Awards could help elevate human rights causes in the West. Read Article
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This is a clip from the film ‘Impunity’ which is a new documentary that Hollman Morris produced with filmmaker Juan Lozano. It won a special mention at the International Human Rights Film Festival and Forum on March 11th, 2011, in Geneva. The film condemns the amnesty which paramilitaries received under the Justice and Peace Law […]
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The people of Suriname want to foster strong socio-cultural ties with their Indian counterparts to cement the relations between this country and the South American island, its Ambassador, Mr Krishadett Baijnath, said today. Read Article
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