Mexico City As a number of state governors, Congressional representatives, and Presidential candidates led by hater-in-chief, Donald Trump, along with rightwing commentators and media rags rail against the threat of Muslim refugees coming into the country and Muslim citizens in the country, it might be worth suggesting that they read Richard Reeves new book, Infamy: …
Informal Workers’ Unions Voices are Rising in Latin America and Elsewhere
Mexico City Some recognition of the role of unions emerging among informal workers is easier to be seen in Latin America. It was unsurprising to read that one of the clearest voices expressing concern about the impact of the devaluation of the peso in Argentina by the new government and its impact on inflation and …
La Lucha Libre and Peoples’ Museums
Mexico City Museums are funny, contradictory institutions. The ones we hear about and see most often are the cultural playgrounds of the elite and powerful that contain and promote the dominant institutional, political, and historical messages that are intended to acculturate the rest of us. These are ones that get the big grants, have the …