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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
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MediaNovember 13, 2009
Justicia Poetica
The victory over Lou Dobbs demonstrates that the immigrant community is mobilized like never before.
Roberto Lovato