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November 25, 2020
Good Times and End Times on 26th and Folsom
The weed is legal, the virus is spiking, and kids dream of robots protecting their families from the landlord.
Roberto Lovato
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November 24, 2020
Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past
Doing so helped me to understand not just the violent history of El Salvador, but also that of my country of birth, the United States.
Roberto Lovato
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Criminal JusticeFebruary 2, 2018
Why Is Nicaragua’s Homicide Rate So Far Below That of Its Central American Neighbors?
It’s the revolution, stupid—which fostered innovative policing, along with the dedicated work of community organizers and women activists.
Roberto Lovato
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StatesApril 15, 2016
Latinos and the New Battle for Texas
Tejanos will change the state’s politics. But that remake won’t be as simple as either Republicans or Democrats assume.
Roberto Lovato
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Race and EthnicityJune 26, 2015
‘The Ghosts of 1937 Are Warning Us’
The past feels dangerously present as deportation and silence devastate Haitian life in the Dominican Republic.
Roberto Lovato
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Race and EthnicityJune 19, 2015
‘It’s the Day Without Haitians in Dominican Republic’
Haitian residents go into hiding as the deadline for mass deportation arrives.
Roberto Lovato
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Immigration PolicyJune 8, 2015
El Salvador’s Gang Violence: The Continuation of Civil War by Other Means
Poverty, the politics of impunity and the long history of US-funded oppression are creating a new wave of refugees.
Roberto Lovato
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ActivismApril 21, 2015
How the ‘Desaparecidos’ of Ayotzinapa Have Sparked a US-Mexican Solidarity Movement
Caravana43 will visit more than 40 US cities this spring to spread the call for justice—and against US funding of the drug war.
Roberto Lovato
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MediaApril 1, 2014
Why the Media Are Giving a Free Pass to Venezuela’s Neo-Fascist Creeps
Roberto Lovato interviews intellectual heavyweight Luis García Britto about the role of the media in the current conflict in Venezuela.
Roberto Lovato
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Immigration PolicyJune 26, 2012
Arizona’s Immigrants Under ‘Reasonable Suspicion’
Far from a slam dunk for immigrants, the Supreme Court ruling allows Juan Crow to stand as the law of the land.
Roberto Lovato