The Puerto Rican people were dying long before Hurricane Maria. The hurricane simply forced us to count the dead, mourn the lives lost, and now, to fight for the lives of those who are still living. It might sound strange, but it’sthe truth. Inequality and poverty kill, and in Puerto Rico, inequality has been a violent hurricane that has spent too much time over our islands.
The era of Trump marks a change that replaces the construction of hemispheric agendas with mere demands that other nations back up the U.S. government in its war policies, and an attitude of intolerance and aggression toward political situations that prevail in other countries of the region that contributes nothing to resolving them.
La marcha del 24 de marzo fue el momento en que miles de jóvenes marcharon, y miles más apoyaron, para decir “Enough is Enough!” (¡Ya Basta!). Reconocieron su propio papel en crear un movimiento histórico con otro letrero común entre los manifestantes que decía simplemente: “Somos el Cambio”.
Donald Trump has doubled down on Obama’s wars, sending more troops, dropping more bombs, launching more drone strikes, and killing more civilians than his predecessor. And that’s even before Trump starts any new wars of his own.
While the media focuses on his personality and his tweets, Donald Trump is leading an antidemocratic project that has serious implications for the United States and the rest of the world.
In an effort to stain the reputation of thousands of Latinos living in the United States and justify his anti-immigrant policies, Trump is exploiting the fear that the MS generates.
La guerrra contra la MS declarada por el presidente Donald Trump desde antes de llegar al gobierno se ha convertido también, en una guerra contra los inmigrantes centroamericanos.En un intento por manchar la reputación de los miles de latinos que viven en Estados Unidos y para justificar su política anti inmigrante, Trump está utilizando ahora el miedo que genera la Mara Salvatrucha.
Instead of demonizing the idea of open borders, it’s time to embrace it, to demonstrate with facts the benefits of migration and migrants, in addition to remedying the causes of forced migration. To do this we have to understand what worked about the Trump narrative as we reject it, and propose alternatives, in addition to denying the lies.
The recent scandals regarding first, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and then Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore have broken the usual impunity surrounding men’s sexual assault on women by bringing it into the public sphere. That’s a good thing. But the scandals also reveal what women have always known–the pervasiveness of sexual assault in our daily lives.
La preocupación y la angustia ante lo que pueda pasar si el TPS es cancelado también alcanza a los hijos de los inmigrantes centroamericanos. Se espera que la administración haga el anuncio sobre la decisión de renovar o no el TPS para más de 200 mil salvadoreños en enero próximo y en unos seis meses más deberá hacerlo con los hondureños.
