History

It was was for a radio show.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are opening memorials to victims of the country’s “dirty war” against dissidents and guerrillas during nearly 20 years of violence.

Two trophy skulls, recently discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization.

Many archeologists, anthropologists and historians have signed the petition, which already has over 24,000 signatures.

While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization.

On April 7, MEChA de UCLA’s issued a statement announcing their secession from the national structure. The Californian chapter said that in recent years infighting and inaction has dominated the national MEChA structure.

How did an American debate about racism make its way to this Latin American nation?

The betrayal of Puerto Rico’s on the recovery effort hurts to this day.

Latino Rebels Radio: April 28, 2019

To this day, translations of many world classics and works of Spanish literature are being reprinted using expurgated texts approved by the dictator’s censors—often without publishers even realizing it, let alone readers.

Latino Rebels Radio: April 14, 2019

Zero tolerance policies/Combined with white supremacy

I can finally put into words the blessing that will benefit my community and unite us with your community.

Los relatos de los eventos se absorben con avidez debido al maravilloso lenguaje de una narración viva, enérgica y potente.

The document below derives from the panel on Chicanismo in the Americas held November 17, 2018, during the conference commemorating the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing, which occurred 50 years ago in San Antonio, Texas.

Although I am glad to see attention finally given to the current plight of Central American refugees and migrants, I am appalled by the ways we continue to overlook decades of U.S. policy intervention in Central America and fail to connect how it has fueled migration since the 1980s.

“Sexual violence is also a weapon, not only as the military’s sense of right to conquer but as a form of subjugation,” said Gustavo Gorriti, an award-winning Peruvian journalist.

Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s epic film tells the 1970s history of Colombia’s marijuana drug trade as it has never been told before: from an Indigenous Wayuu perspective.

Learn your history.

Within just two years, Aztec ruler Montezuma was dead, the capital city of Tenochtitlan was captured and Cortés had claimed the Aztec empire for Spain.

As with the Guantánamo detainees, migrants are risking starvation, but not because they want to die.