A Crisis of Democracy
2020 is proving to be one of the most tumultuous years in our Nation’s history. A perfect storm has formed that will challenge the very fabric of our democracy. Our shores are being pounded by what appears to be a never ending pandemic, a widening chasm in our political ideologies, increasing inequality in race relations, continued wealth disparity, and an upcoming election crisis that has been forming.
The Impeachment Spectacle You Didn’t See!
With the impeachment vote leaving our country more divided than ever, you might consider a quirky app that allows teens to create short-form, often funny videos to be a harmless diversion from the withering political discourse..TikTok
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
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”.
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.
America The Land of the Free?
As Donald Trump just celebrated a military style July Forth holiday filled with war tanks and missile launchers, his administration is back to work neglecting safe haven for those most vulnerable and in search of the very freedom and liberty the United States was “once” known for.
Mexico City’s Art Scene is Moving Culture
We landed in Mexico City later than we expected. Two of the three of us were home and eager to get into our own beds. We were parting ways that night for the first time in a full week.
