By Julia Poppell Since the early 2000s and as early as 1990, some public schools in North Carolina have implemented dual-language programs to combat educational inequality among a steadily increasing Latino population. Over the last fifteen years, these programs have grown from under ten to over 140. However, the state Read more…
By Quinn Dauer This year marks the tenth anniversary of the colossal Haitian and Chilean earthquakes. On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince, killing at least 200,000 people. Only a month and a half later on 27 February 2010, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake Read more…
Change is on the horizon in Uruguay. On 1 March 2020, the new center-right coalition led by National Party leader Luis Lacalle Pou took over the country’s reigns, bringing an end to a decade and half of government by the center-left Broad Front party. The day also marked the thirty-fifth Read more…
SECOLAS is delighted to announce its latest digital media project Discurso: https://discursorevista.com/ The idea is to offer a text-based rich media user experience in which scholars of Latin America explore a wide array of issues, ranging from the interaction between society and the state to how this relationship is rendered Read more…