Arts & Culture
The Death and Revival of Indigenous Languages
"As Indigenous languages go extinct, so too do the culture and history that they carry with them."
The Americas
Agriculture
Nicaraguan Indigenous Groups Face Violent, Ongoing Settler Raids
"Indigenous groups in eastern Nicaragua ... continuously face violent attacks led by the militant arms of logging, mining, and farming enterprises seeking to exploit the area’s largely untouched land."
China
The Future of the Sino-Venezuelan Relationship: Make or Break?
"China has invested around US$67 billion into Venezuela. Compared to the rest of Latin America, this is more than 40 percent of Chinese investment in the continent."
China
On Environmental Activism in Argentina: A Conversation with Andrés Nápoli
"I believe the future holds much more activity because, lamentably, every day there are more pressures out there against the environment."
The Americas
On the Future of Currency: Interview with Charles Hoskinson, Part 2
We started with gold but then we created a gold-backed money. Now we have crypto, and we may have crypto-backed money.
Energy & Environment
Protecting Latin America's Environmental Defenders: The Fight for the Escazú Agreement
"Latin America’s wealth of natural resources creates conflict between environmental defenders and businesses that wish to exploit these resources. Latin America’s 'plague of state weakness' then allows businesses to kill environmental defenders and get away with it."
Energy & Environment
Venezuela's Environmental Collapse: A Harbinger of Health and Environmental Harm
"Venezuela's state-run PDVSA oil company has been pumping out oil without concerns about contamination. As a result, PDVSA rarely cleans up oil spills regularly, meaning that oil is now damaging Venezuela's once-pristine environment and harming the health of the communities in the region."
Human Rights
Kidnappings amidst COVID-19: The second pandemic constraining Haitians to their homes and the country to a prolonged state of chaos
"In any case, Haiti will need much more than a COVID vaccine to recover, if not cope with, its multiple pandemics."
Interviews
Balancing Peace and Justice: Interview with President Juan Manuel Santos
Every peace process of this sort is really about where do you draw the line between peace and justice. The instructions that I gave my negotiators were to try to achieve as much justice as possible that will allow us to have peace.
Interviews
On Canada's Foreign Policy: Interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau
Canada denounces the illegal and immoral practice of arbitrary detention in the strongest possible terms. It needs to stop.
Europe
Green Scarves and Data Harvesting: How the Abortion Battle has Gone Digital
"While the coalition of women's movements in Latin America may have begun as a series of tweets and hashtags, it has now transitioned into a global resistance movement that provides strategies and services across borders."
The Americas
“Tropical Trump”? Bolsonaro's Threat to Brazilian Democracy
Pedro Paulo Weizenmann. Originally published in the HIR Winter 2019 Issue. There is a tendency among voters, politicians, and some political analysts to portray every election as a country’s turning point. Most of the time, this approach is wrong—it cannot hold true election after election. However, when it