Join us for a lecture by Pablo Piccato, Professor of History at Columbia University. Piccato specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.
The World Bank’s Second Chance in South America By Kevin Gallagher / October 6, 2015 This week the World Bank holds its annual meeting in Lima, Peru—the first time the Bank’s annual gathering has touched down in South America since 1967. Planned long in advance, the original idea had been to celebrate the region’s return […]
Faculty member Danny Erker was featured in the article “How ‘ums’ and ‘ers’ are changing Bostonian Spanish” in the Boston Globe. BOSTON HAS SEEN a dramatic increase in its Hispanic population since 2000, over 25 percent according to census records. That’s left an obvious and significant mark on the way locals speak English — but the […]
Read about the research done at Teotihuacan by BU’s archaeology department. It’s a sunny summer Sunday, and the Street of the Dead looks particularly lively as archaeologist David Carballo makes his way across. The broad thoroughfare cuts a one-and-a-quarter-mile swath through the heart of the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan, passing three monumental stone pyramids named after […]
Juan Manuel Echavarría: photography without blame or pity In Colombia, fighting has been going on for so long, few remember why it began. After decades of an internecine war and blood feuds between leftwing guerrillas, rightwing paramilitary groups and drug gangs, Juan Manuel Echavarría wants to block the country’s amnesia. “Since I was born, Colombia […]
Cuba Ascending Cuba’s international profile is on the rise. In recent years, Raúl Castro has set Cuban foreign policy on a promising path toward greater political and economic engagement with the rest of the world. While the mending of ties with the United States is the most significant evidence of this shift, it is only […]
The benefits of signing up for the biggest trade deal in history may take a while to materialize in the three Latin American countries that agreed Monday to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Chile, Peru and Mexico already have free-trade deals in place with the United States. And their leaders are among Latin America’s weakest […]
Renata Keller, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that the seeds of the global wars on both drugs and terror can be found in Mexico’s experience during the Cold War. Keller made the argument in a Sept. 30 Op-Ed on the news outlet Medium […]