by Isabelle Johnson, LACIS Communications/Social Media Assistant This week, LACIS would like to congratulate two incredible Indigenous leaders from Latin America, Leydy Pech and Nemonte Nenquimo for being named the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients …
News from the Region
Learn about current events and news coming out of the LACIS region direct from alumni, friends, and former visiting faculty members.
On the Ground News: Spain
Written by Vicente Lopez Abad. Translated by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern. In Valencia, in general, everything is pretty much under control given the exceptional health situation in which we are living …
On the Ground News: Argentina
Written by Alejandro Meitin, artist, lawyer, social innovator, founder of the art collective Ala Plastica (1991-2016) and Casa Río Power to do Lab. Translated by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern. The …
On The Ground News from Peru
Written by Nicole Fadellin, PhD in Spanish: Latin American Literature, and Jaime Vargas Luna, Public Servant. The Peruvian government has implemented the most comprehensive response to the pandemic in Latin America. On March 16, ten …
On The Ground News from Mexico
Written by Dr. Lucía Melgar, edited by Claire Campbell, LACIS Social Media and Communications Intern. Mexico enters phase III. Life in Mexico City started changing by mid-March: public and private universities, mots private schools decided …
On the Ground News from Brazil, with update
Video and writing by Jean Vilbert, a Judge, Writer and Professor in São Paulo, Brazil. Coronavirus is coming to the Tropics. What to do now? As coronavirus advances, Brazilians fear a catastrophe, wondering whether the …
On The Ground News from Ecuador
By Tod Swanson, Associate Professor at ASU working on the Amazonian social relation to nature. Edits and addition by Claire Campbell, LACIS Social Media and Communications Intern. We left Ecuador on an 11:30 PM flight …
On the Ground News from Colombia: Fault Lines
Written by Paula Ungar, Colombian biologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences I spend the quarantine days in my old, quiet apartment, in which, from the window, I can see the shape of the Andean mountains that …