Former president of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno , described the many issues facing Latin America and the Caribbean in the wake of the pandemic as pre-existing conditions that call for visionary leadership from...
The way we make our cities will be critical in the next 50 years as the world’s urban population looks set to double, said former Bogotá, Colombia mayor Enrique Peñalosa.
No matter what you’re studying, there’s no escaping the role of language. It’s just how humans communicate. Yet, there is a generation of students whose experience with language classes consists almost entirely of conversations about a single...
By the time Summer Session I started on May 13, Duke’s educators had already been at work for weeks. Before a class can be taught, it must be planned. There are readings to select, assignments to create, questions to prepare, schedules to set....
One of the best-known indigenous defenders of the Amazon rainforest has died with coronavirus in Brazil, where the disease continues its rapid spread. News from the BBC
For the Spring 2020 semester, Professor of History John French teamed up with Silvio Luiz de Almeida, Mellon visiting professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, to examine race and the Black Lives Matter movements in the...
(PRI) The Trump administration is pushing forward with a new plan for a power-sharing government in Venezuela as the South American nation struggles with a collapsed economy and the looming threat of the coronavirus pandemic. The World's Jorge...
