Featured series 
Tag: South America
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Campus & Community
Deep in the Amazon, local politicians resist gold miners — and inspire thesis
Encounter during rainforest trip leads Eduardo Vasconcelos to research focus
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Nation & World
Closer look at ‘coolest dictator in the world’
Sociologist traces rise, career of Salvadoran leader some view as savior, others as authoritarian
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Nation & World
Danger ahead
Former national security official surveys hot spots in Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe — and how new president’s ideas are being received
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Science & Tech
Journey to a key front in climate-change fight
Amazon immersion fosters partnerships, offers students, researchers hard look at threats to economic security, environment of rainforest as Earth warms
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Campus & Community
Studying Latin American literature of stateless amid new era of displacement
Harvard Horizons Scholar to detail research at Sanders symposium
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Nation & World
Protests, inequality, and brutal crackdowns in Latin America
David Rockefeller Center panel details state of democracies in various nations across Latin America.
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Arts & Culture
Identity issues
In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.
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Arts & Culture
The lizard king
Researcher Jonathan Losos devotedly studies the anole lizard, and has compiled decades of research into a new book.
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Arts & Culture
Human colonization of Australia and the Americas examined
A recent symposium about the prehistory of Australia and the Americas brought together scholars from 10,000 miles apart. But that’s nothing compared to the journey early humans made to populate Australia and the Americas tens of thousands of years ago.
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Health
Poor fall behind in birth control
Modern contraception has come a long way in the past 20 years, what with diaphragms, hormones, implants, intrauterine devices, condoms, spermicides, and sterilization. But the boom in birth control has been a bust for the poorest women in the world.