If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
Deportees and other migrants return home wealthier, more educated and with more work experience than people who never left. This ‘brain gain’ benefits the whole community, financially and politically.
En abril de 2018, una ola de protestas masiva en Nicaragua casi derrumbe al regimen autoritario de Daniel Ortega. ¿Qué le pasó a esta ‘primavera tropical’ de Centroamérica?
A massive protest movement exploded across Nicaragua in April 2018, threatening to topple the country’s authoritarian regime. What happened to Central America’s ‘tropical spring?’
Los emigrantes de Nicaragua envían más de mil millones de dólares a su país cada año. Este dinero ha ejercido un papel cambiante en la política interna: primero impulsó el régimen de Ortega; ahora sustenta las revueltas contra él.
Nicaraguan migrants send over US$1 billion home each year. This money has played a changing role in domestic politics – first boosting the Ortega regime and, now, sustaining the uprising against him.
El petróleo venezolano impulsó la economía de Nicaragua y financió muchos programas sociales de Ortega. Con Venezuela en crisis, concluyó la entrada de petróleo y también el apoyo a Ortega.
Cheap Venezuelan oil boosted Nicaragua’s economy and funded President Daniel Ortega’s many anti-poverty programs. With Venezuela in crisis, the oil has dried up – as has support for Ortega’s regime.
La historia demuestra que los presidentes latinoamericanos no duran mucho después de usar la violencia para reprimir las protestas masivas. ¿Será Daniel Ortega el próximo en caer?
History shows that Latin American presidents usually don’t last long after they use violence to repress mass protests. Is Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega the next to fall?
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