By: David Prieto, 2L On April 11, 2015, President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro in what was the first in-person meeting between both nations’ leaders in half a century. The U.S., up until this point, had increasingly sanctioned Cuba since the Cuban Revolution, when Cuba began to nationalize U.S. owned properties and aligned […]

By: Minerva Santiago Acevedo, 2L On March 8, 2021, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced the assignment of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuela. TPS grants people who cannot return to their countries because of “natural disasters, armed conflicts, or other conditions” protection from being deported and a work […]

By: Lily Fontenot, 2L On March 8, 2021, in honor of International Women’s Day, approximately 20,000 women marched the streets of Mexico City demanding that the country take action against the widespread violence against women. The women, through their powerful chants and signs, demanded justice for victims of rape, femicide and other gender crimes and […]

By: Alejandra De La Camara, 2L Victims of the longest-running war in the Americas are in the process of providing testimony against perpetrators in a historic new court, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Established in 2016 following the end of the country’s civil war, the Court had not yet attributed criminal responsibility to former […]