Recent Blog Entries


  • obama

    Obama in the Americas


    Feb 23, 2009

    The Obama administration has sent mixed signals on its planned course for U.S. relations with Latin America. It appears the administration is keeping its cards close ahead of the administration's first big test in the region: the Summit of the Americas meeting in April.


  • tio sam

    Tío Sam to Immigrants: I Want You! (Sort Of)


    Feb 15, 2009

    As the Pentagon announced it will recruit immigrant-soldiers by providing a path to legal citizenship, the U.S. Border Patrol is producing migra-corrido tunes warning potential Mexican migrants about the dangers of undocumented immigration.


  • awa

    Massacres Again on the Rise in Colombia


    Feb 12, 2009

    This week's killing of perhaps as many as 27 indigenous Awá seems to confirm the growing trend of massacres by the country's armed groups.


  • Tenochtitlan

    Aztec 'Dog Soldiers' Discovered?


    Feb 11, 2009

    Archaeologists in Mexico City say they may have found the burial site of the final holdout of Aztec warriors who made a last stand against the Spanish conquistadors. The discovery was made in the city's infamous Tlatelolco plaza.