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Abstract: It is very hard to tell if Free Trade Agreements are “good” or “bad”, but what I can tell as a consumer is that I cannot see [...]
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Moving from the Caribbean to Europe was an interesting experience for me. One thing that really astonished me was how integrated EU countries were. I hadn’t realized (prior to moving [...]
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Abstract: In Venezuela it's common to complement the monthly income with small side enterprises, a practice known as "killing tigers" (matar tigres), but for some it's a way of living. [...]
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Abstract: European migrations since the sixteenth century provoked a world wide movement of men, women, objects, fabrics, ideas, fashion. In colonial Bolivia indians were prohibited from using Spanish clothings in [...]
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The Salvadoran state is like a father who has many children. It is in debt, has limited wages, has maxed out its credit cards and overdrawn its checking account, and [...]
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When I was a young girl, my parents always advised me never to bargain with artisans who sell hand-made crafts in Mexico but to pay the price that was asked. [...]
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Abstract: Today, only in Brazil, one in every three children between 5 and 9 years is [...]
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Abstract: Intipucá is a very small, dusty and hot town in rural El Salvador. However, it used to be one of the richest towns in the country. Said [...]
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As economic immigrants, where do we find our cultural identity? The answers are probably as unique as every immigrant who arrives in a new country. So I decided to ask [...]
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Abstract: La Paz and El Alto cities produce 27% of the daily garbage in Bolivia. Every day in these cities, specially at night, women and their children go out to [...]
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In the age of migration and globalization, it is often argued that we need to remember where we come from. Whenever people ask me about my roots, I catch myself [...]
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My friends find it hard to believe that I have no childhood memories of my mother. Sure there are pictures in her photo albums that prove that she [...]
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Abstract: The big amount of Salvadoran migrants living in the USA has become a business opportunity for small and medium enterprises, which have organized themselves to export certain products that [...]
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Abstract: Rita Laura Melgar is a 27 year old Salvadorean, who became a mother when she was 16. As a brilliant student, she managed herself to finish her secondary and [...]
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I set my feet on the São Paulo supernova. It’s a grey morning and streams of people are walking to the nearest subway station. I go with the flow, street [...]
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Abstract: The government of Nicaragua announced in January of this year a campaign that is being called, in short, “Vivir bonito” (“Living pretty”). The initial 14 point plan doesn’t specify [...]
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Eight o’clock at night. An indigenous community in central Mexico surrounded by verdant mountains. The moon is set brightly yellow, as it became the only light to illuminate the small [...]
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Abstract: By force of masterful juggling, women have taken to pieces the myth of feminine inferiority, which so much worried the past generations of activists. Many of us have by far [...]
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When you consider what nations have the most effective health care systems, most Mexicans think of countries like Cuba, where the welfare state provides comprehensive general medicine, or France, where [...]
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Abstract: The stay-at-home women around the world make a big contribution to global economy. The unrecognized work of women engaged in unpaid domestic work can equate to 40% of Gross [...]
