BREATHE – The Resistance to Police Brutality
BREATHE -- After a week of riots in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin, we reflect one what was and where do we go from here. #VOTE2020
Latin America Under Threat of Cybercrime Amid Coronavirus
Online scams, ransomware attacks and phishing email schemes have proliferated in Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic, exposing the dangers hackers pose to people, banks and governments.
Protected Sex Without It Making You Miserable
Why Can’t More Women Have Protected Sex Without It Making Them Miserable? We need more female-friendly birth control options and here’s why
Green Card Veterans – Deported and Forgotten
In the Mexican border town of Tijuana, Edwin Salgado sat on a folding chair cracking jokes with fellow U.S. military veterans on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-April. Salgado, 35, had just returned from a Mexican government office where he had helped one of the newest arrivals at this border shelter known as “the Bunker”.
The COVID Blues: What You Need to Know About Depression
It's perfectly normal to feel sad every now and then. But what if that sadness seems to extend for days, or even weeks or months? You might have depression. These feelings are being exacerbated even more given the current COVID-19 fears and uncertainty about the near future.
Confronting COVID-19 in Mexico
It has now been more than 100 years since the “Spanish Influenza,” and more than a decade since the H1N1 outbreak. With nearly 500,000 cases of the new coronavirus, Covid-19, having been confirmed worldwide, the WHO on March 11 declared the outbreak to be a pandemic.
Nicolás Maduro’s Drug Trafficking Exploits Exposed
US prosecutors have charged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his closest allies with drug trafficking and corruption, cementing the embattled nation’s reputation as a mafia state.
Mexico Land of Refugees
In March of last year, Alba Luz Maldonado Paz left her Honduras town in search of a better life. The 36-year-old woman said she left her country due to a lack of economic opportunities and physical danger. She was terrified, she explains, when members of an international criminal gang, La Mara 18, threatened to kill her.
Females Lead As Political Innovators in Latin America
Bogotá is a portentous and unruly city, a beast of numerous maverick heads slumping in the core of Colombia, serving as the country’s heart, brains—and if the air were less polluted, its lungs, too—thumping arrhythmically to the beat of inequality.
Easy Cash or Exploitation?
With a stacked schedule — two jobs and a full course load I didn’t really have time to become an Uber driver or a Postmates delivery girl, but I needed money to pay for books. So, I turned to the internet.