Rebellion and Repression in Chiapas
A Massacre Foretold (DVD, 2007, 58 minutes), directed by Nick Higgins, Lansdowne Productions (massacreforetold.com) In the first scene of A ...
More Than 25 Years: Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
In 1999, President Bill Clinton commuted the prison sentences of 12 of 15 Puerto Rican men and women arrested in ...
A Rare Happy Ending: Piñones Versus the Developers
As tourism continues to grow into one of the most profitable sectors of Puerto Rico’s economy, many small communities have ...
Nueva York – Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond
Back in 1999, New York magazine was renamed Nueva York, at least for the week of September 6. The Spanish ...
Robocop in Mexico City
In October 2001, just a month after the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, when questions of security were ...
The Rise of Crime, Disorder and Authoritarian Policing: An Introductory Essay
Last year, New York City’s famous former mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, a proponent of tough punishments for minor infractions and hard-line ...
From Mexico to New York Labor Joins the Struggle
About 10 million current U.S. residents were born in Mexico, and a great many of them regularly send money home, ...
