US basketball coaches are exploiting Black Latin American youths. Review: Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams, Javier Wallace, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Panama, United States
Category: Panama
Blurred visions
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The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Review: Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions, Jessica M Lepler, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Central America, China, Guatemala, International, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
Green is the colour of blood
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Solidarity unchained
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Latin America may be poised to rediscover its internationalist vocation. Latin America and the Global Cold War, edited by Thomas C Field Jr, Stella Krepp and Vanni Pettinà, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Central America, Colombia, North America, Panama, South America, United States, Venezuela
Cry freedom
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Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Goliath’s global David
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Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History, by Mateo Jarquín
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
Animal apocalypse
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton, 2024, Harvard University Press
Categories: Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, South America, Venezuela
Perpetual motion
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Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870–1930, edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay
Feria del Libro
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Green fog
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As the British Labour Party under Keir Starmer prepares for its annual conference next week, we ask: does it have a policy towards Latin America?
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela