The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens.
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US lawmakers who opposed Guatemala’s democratically elected leaders alleged communist subterfuge. They didn’t mention the United Fruit Company’s complaints before the 1954 coup.
The Sanctuary Movement emerged amid a restrictive US asylum process and as the Reagan administration refused to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the region.
US officials have used a number of rhetorical strategies – ways of talking about something – to distance the country from, and avoid responsibility for, atrocities committed by those it supports.
In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live.
Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.
Ancient Maya peoples knew that human beings are not independent from nature but part of it.
Structures aligned with solar events served various purposes: science, farming, religion and even politics.
Aid would be much better spent if donors listened to the people they are trying to help.
Anti-democratic actions and government corruption are key reasons many Guatemalans migrate to the US.
College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
Anthropological fieldwork into ‘outsourced’ asylum measures in Nauru and Guatemala reveal how they actually work - and don’t work - in practice.
During the brainstorming stage of the design process, AI-powered image generation programs can open creative doors that may have otherwise never been accessed.
Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
While Russia and Ukraine’s war wages on, previous peace talk discussions didn’t appear to include women. Changing that can make a difference, research shows.
Often overlooked in the immigration debate are the contributions of migrants, such as how they helped organize workers in the 1990s.
Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace accord that ended a 36-year civil war, Guatemala is still struggling with violence and corruption.
Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
Children and families have been fleeing to the US in rising numbers for nearly a decade. So why is the current situation at the US-Mexico border being viewed as something new?
The low levels of familiarity with key historical events indicate that there are serious shortcomings in the development of national collective memory in South Africa.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Profesor-Investigador, ECOSUR
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Associate Professor Human Rights & Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology , NYU Abu Dhabi, chercheuse associée LESC, Université Paris Nanterre
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