They’re the focus of the immigration debate. But across the nation, Latinos are rising to power and offering a glimpse of what’s ahead.
Even as a little girl growing up as a member of the Miskitu tribe of Nicaragua, Ruth Matamoras dreamed of going to college and one day earning a doctorate. But when she arrived at the University of Texas, her dream ran into a discomforting reality. “It’s int...
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“Whatever else California was, good or bad, it was charged with human hope. It was linked imaginatively with the most compelling of American myths, the pursuit of happiness.” — Kevin Starr,Americans and the California Dream: 1850-1915 “Hell, we threw in the land and sold ‘em the cli...
In Central America, it is the official language in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama on the coastal line. However, there are nearby islands and countries set on those islands like Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, where ...
Belize's Charlie Slusher found the net during his side's 7-1 demolition of Nicaragua in 2002. Zambia's Kennedy Mweene has something of a reputation for scoring from the penalty spot, having netted 10 goals for the Free State Stars since 2005. He proved his worth during the 2013 African ...
the gold bars when they were processed simply then went by air to the United States, but there what they did was create the conditions so that the gold was no longer processed here in Nicaragua and that the chaff was shipped, without even having any idea of how much gold was goi...
Satellite photos of the lowlands in the dry season show that clouds are absent or sparse over deforested areas but are thicker over the forests of neighboring Nicaragua. Computer simulations of day-time cloud formation in the area support these observations, Lawton notes, and they also suggest tha...
most companies caught in turmoil, whose actions don’t become public, Lafarge’s predicament in the war-torn country is now under the spotlight. In a 245-page bookpublishedlast month in his native Norwegian, Waerness offers a rare insider view of corporate decision-making during times of ...
Cultures without numbers, or with only one or two precise numbers, include the Munduruku and Pirahã in Amazonia. Researchers have also studied some adults in Nicaragua who were never taught number words. Without numbers, healthy human adults struggle to precisely differentiate and recall quantities...