The other day, my colleague Reginald Dumas and his relatives Mervyn O’Neil and Dr Ryan Allard shared with members of our blog that their clan in Tobago was commemorating the
The Academia Mexicana de Historia recently elected Georgetown professor John Tutino an international corresponding member. In this inaugural program, he will share his latest views setting the long history that made Mexico in global perspective. Antonio García de Leon, distinguished historian and Miembro de Número of the Academia, will respond to the presentation with his […]
Populism can be understood as a type of anti-constitutionalism. President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s understanding of democracy shows this deep aversion to liberal restraints. Even after he renounced the idea of convening a constitutional assembly as a symbol of his “Fourth Transformation,” he has had an impact on the text and the reading […]
Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest metropolitan area, has long been a magnet for internal migration due to its economic prowess, but the city has also been intimately connected to cross-border flows. The city’s relative proximity to Texas turned Monterrey into a hub for processing Mexican guest workers, first during the Bracero Program and today through H-2 […]
Migrations from Central America and Mexico to the United States escalated through the second half of the twentieth century. The challenges that drove so many to leave rural communities and urban barrios to take the risks of the northward trek varied over time and across diverse regions. Still, underlying everything was a fundamental pressure: soaring […]