Tag: Guatemala

  • Nation & World

    Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border

    Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.

    Michelle Williams.
  • Work & Economy

    Bond rate shift may suggest recession

    An inverted bond yield curve often has been a harbinger of recession, though the odds of one are still only 1 in 3 for this year, Harvard analyst says.

    New York Stock Exchange trader on the floor.
  • Nation & World

    The price of women’s immigration

    Author Sonia Nazario told a Radcliffe conference that people don’t generally know that large numbers of women who immigrate to the United States illegally to get jobs and support their families back home leave their own children behind to do so.

  • Nation & World

    Beyond mourning

    Former Radcliffe fellow and Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto founded an online altar to honor 72 Central Americans massacred in Mexico in summer 2010.

  • Health

    An experiment gone horribly awry

    Victims of U.S. syphilis experiments in Guatemala are still awaiting compensation that may or may not come, even as new laws passed in the wake of 9/11 make it harder, in some circumstances, to sue disease researchers for wrongdoing, panelists at Harvard Law School said.

  • Campus & Community

    Social change at ground level

    Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.

  • Campus & Community

    Carpio rising

    Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.