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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. (Photo by Stan Ovshinsky.)

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. (photo courtesy of casarosada.gov)

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.)

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.)

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. Courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Art.)

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. (Photo by Francisco Martínez.)

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 and O2 Filmes.)

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. (Photo by Jonathan Talbot / World Resources Council.)

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.)

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.)

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. (Photo by Luis Romero/Associated Press.)

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. (Photo courtesy of All Rise Films.)

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. (Photo by Andrea Schaffer.)

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.
Image courtesy of Fernando Botero.

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