Category Archives: Student Blog

Where is Santiago Maldonado?

By: Agustina Kloosterboer Santiago Maldonado, an Argentinian citizen was last seen during a confrontation between border police officers and supporters of a Mapuche indigenous community. The dispute arose from the displacement of these supporters from an area in the Argentinian Patagonia. The country, currently revolutionized, remembers the dark disappearances under Argentina’s military dictatorship in the […]

Are Environmentalists Becoming an Endangered Species?

By: Emily Canney In the United State an environmentalist is not always the most poplular person at a party. Well, in Latin America environmentalist are not just disliked, they are being murdered at an alarming rate. Between the years 2002 and 2015 the U.K.-based NGO Global Witness recorded that more than 900 environmentalist were killed […]

Budget Cuts Threaten Potential Disintegration of the Violence Against Women’s Act

By: Maia Fleischman Earlier this week, President Trump released a blueprint of his planned budget cuts for the upcoming year.  In his blueprint, President Trump reminded the American people why they voted for him—because they entrusted him to make America great again. Specifically, President Trump stated, “ Our aim is to meet the simple, but […]