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For the next president, complying with Mexico’s new humanitarian law will mean passing policies that truly take migrants’ rights seriously.

The 41-year-old Iván Duque, who has never before held elected office, begins his four-year term in August.

“It was like a war zone,” recalls Corinn Williams, director of the Community Economic Development Center in New Bedford.

The ongoing mistrust in the information coming out of the island, paired with the elimination of the Puerto Rican Institute of Statistics, could have dire consequences.

Collateral damage in the U.S. war on immigration.

In short, our mission was arriving at a time when the locals had reason to be angry at Americans. We went anyway because of the children who would surely die if we weren’t there to perform surgery.

Undercounting deaths reduces the attention to the crisis Puerto Ricans live day by day.

In late 2016, the Colombian government signed a controversial accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a guerrilla group.

Following up with Juan after a year of struggle in the wake of the storm, he said, “Puerto Ricans are proud, committed, strong… And that includes Muslims.”

For a number of reasons, the job of revitalizing a psychology of liberation seems particularly pressing at the moment.

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Race is still a taboo subject. Nonetheless, as Marielle Franco exposed in her work, skin color dramatically impacts safety in Brazil.

But the project, which employed more than 40,000 laborers, also took immense liberties with human life. Thousands of workers were killed.

Why?

On April 19, the National Assembly will meet to pick Cuba’s next leader. And for the first time in six decades, his last name will not be Castro.

Why is Romero’s sainthood so controversial?

The Trump administration is getting this gang all wrong.

I was startled to discover that Mexican officials frequently treat water distribution and treatment not as public services but as political favors.

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As a sociologist who specializes in research on social inequalities, I believe this way of capturing race and ethnicity undermines the country’s ability to serve vulnerable communities.

Citizenship data would be valuable. But the risks of poor data quality far outweigh the potential benefits.