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CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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A ThyssenKrupp facility in Germany covered in thin-film solar material.
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Green Ideas From Europe
Journalist Robert Collier outlines the ideas presented by European parliamentarian and environmentalist Daniel Cohn-Bendit during his CLAS visit.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao receives Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Beijing to sign trade deals.
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China Discovers Latin America
Kevin P. Gallagher analyzes Latin America’s response to Chinese investment in the region.
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An Apache scout surveys the countryside.
(Photo by Edward S. Curtis.)
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Forgotten Foes
Historian Brian DeLay unearths the forgotten role played by Native Americans in the U.S.–Mexican War.
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San Francisco Church, Guanajuato, Mexico.
(Photo by Russ Bowling.)
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Gender, Politics and the Church
Margaret Chowning explores how Mexican women created positions of authority for themselves within the Catholic Church during the tumultuous post-Independence years.
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Campesinos reading El Machete.
(Photo by Tina Modotti.
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Radicals, Revolutionaries and Exiles: Mexico City in the 1920s
Barry Carr delves into the ferment of post-Revolutionary life in Mexico City.
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A man poles a boat filled with flowers through Lake Xochimilco, where traditional chinampa or lake bed agriculture is still practiced.
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City of Lakes: Searching for Pantitlan
Ivonne del Valle analyzes the colonizers’ ongoing struggle to manage lake water in the Valley of Mexico.
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The catadores work through the night at the dump.
(Film still courtesy of Almega Projects
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Rubbish People
Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes reviews “Waste Land,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about art and Brazilian trash pickers.
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Residents of this Brazilian neighborhood illegally tap power lines to access free electricity.
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Sustainable Architecture
Sandy Brown reports on Paz Gutierrez’s work on the cutting edge of sustainable architecture.
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Geothermal energy is tapped for power in several sites near Los Azufres, Michoacán.
(Photo by Shane Runquist.)
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Latin America’s Cleantech Future
Christian Casillas reports on a panel discussion on the climate for cleantech investment in Latin America.
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A vulture lands in
Guatemala City's Cementerio General.
(Photo by Anthony Fontes.)
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Death Dealing in Guatemala City
Anthony Fontes journeys into the heart of Guatemala City’s gang culture.
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Marchers take shelter under rainbow umbrellas during a gay pride parade in San Salvador.
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Outflanking Discrimination
Legal researcher Allison Davenport describes the work of Salvadoran gay-rights activist William Hernández.
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Andrés Escobar rises for a header as part of the Colombian national team.
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The Rise and Fall of Narco-Soccer
Sarah Krupp reports on the CLAS screening of “The Two Escobars.”
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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Archbishop Romero are among those depicted in Westminster Abbey's memorial to 20th-century martyrs.
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Remembering Romero
Anthony Fontes writes about the documentary “Monseñor” and the man who inspired it, Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
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Fernando Botero's
"Country Wedding"
Art historian Peter Selz describes the painting “Country Wedding,” one of Fernando Botero’s recent works.
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Left: "Country Wedding," 2009,
oil on canvas, 180 x 142 cm.
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