Threatened With Death, an Activist Priest Leaves Mexico (for a while)
Alejandro Solalinde is a Catholic priest who runs the Hermanos en el Camino shelter in southern Mexico for migrants who are ...
Haiti’s Hotel Boom: Progress or Trickledown Economics?
The recent news out of Haiti is that Port au Prince is currently undergoing a building boom—but it’s not the ...
Securing the Super Bowl With Border Patrol
Customs and Border Protection can transport the intense U.S.-Mexico border surveillance and security apparatus to anywhere in the country, including ...
Mass Evictions at Pinheirinho: Favela Residents Confront Brazil’s Development Boom
Mass evictions and police violence at Pinheirinho, a favela on the outskirts of São Paolo, illustrate the collateral damage of ...
2501 Migrants: A Photo Story of Oaxacan Exodus
In the late 1990s, Oaxacan artist Alejandro Santiago set to repopulate his town with 2,500 individual human sculptures, each representing ...
The New Disappeared: Homage and Resistance
A week and a half ago, a group of activists and immigrants began a trek from various locations in Guatemala ...
A Right to Move—and to Stay Home
Recent reports indicate that the number of Mexican migrants entering the United States outside of authorized channels has declined markedly ...
Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse
Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious program to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. Under the “Brazil Without ...
