Opinion

The Puerto Rican community is guilty of ignorance against some of the most marginalized in the world.

Though the postwar years saw a relative flowering of democracy in Latin America, the Rio Treaty was not envisioned as an instrument for advancing democracy.

The suggestion that El Salvador can protect asylum seekers is misleading.

What can be learned from the failures and successes of Latin America’s leftist parties and governments in the very recent past?

Another story of out Latin American that is being completely ignored.

Cuba is no longer the Americas’ lonely outpost of communism. This Caribbean island has become a nation of entrepreneurship, democratic aspiration, even pro-Americanism.

The U.S. is acting in violation of its own law governing treatment of refugees, the U.S. 1980 Refugee Act. The Q&A below illustrates what the U.S. should be doing, under law—and what it isn’t doing.

Including two films from Spain in a Latinx media space blurs the lines between white European Spaniards and Latinxs, undermining the core of Latinx identity, which is based on a historical and geographical identity that values the roots of African and Indigenous peoples, while also excluding Spain.

Optimism helps, but the Democrats’ partisan fortunes ultimately depend upon the party’s ability to register a large number of the unregistered Latino voters across Texas.

It will not happen.

We can call this state of affairs, both present and historic, white identity politics.

It will take an act of Congress to replace the word “Hispanic.”

In a study published on September 12, the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found the backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned and wait times have doubled in the last three years.

The current political crisis in the United States shares similarities with political issues in Latin America.

“Trump says to go back to your country. But this is my country, I’m fourth generation Mexican-American. I don’t know anyone in Mexico!”

By Nourelhoda Eidy, Ronnie Alvarez, and Madeline Simone As three students who spent our summers learning about the health impacts of immigration work raids, we find it is necessary to reflect on the implications of Trump’s interior enforcement tactics. Our research is enabled by accounts of people either directly affected by raids or those who […]

As a scholar of immigration law, I can state with authority that —unlike other policies— this particular move will likely result in the death, kidnapping and torture of individuals seeking safety from persecution and torture in their home countries.

This lack of leadership from representatives of Florida is unacceptable.

The passage of time hasn’t provided any insight into why this collapse happened or what can be done to ensure something like this never happens again.

Homophobia in schools assaults LGBTQ+ students’ right to exist.

This is about cruelty and nothing else.