ROCLA 2021 Fall Membership Drive
COVID-19 has posed great challenges to...
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Resources in English on Latin America
Editor’s Note: For our readers who are interested in pursuing additional information and news about Latin America and the Caribbean, we have compiled a list of organizations and news sources that generally provide reliable information, which is not the case with...
ROCLA Fall 2021 Newsletter
ROCLA's Fall 2021 Newsletter - It's our Fall Membership Drive! Providing members and friends with an expanded quarterly newsletter that covers many more Latin American countries and timely issues such as climate change, migration and cultural change.
Cuba: Confronting COVID and the US Blockade
Video Now Available!
Cuba: Confronting COVID and the US Blockade
A Zoom presentation for Upstate New York - Wednesday May 5th - 7pm ET
Sanctions Kill: Nicaragua in the Era of US Sanctions
Video now available! We are honored to present our next ROCLA speaker, Mr. Jaime Hermida Castillo, who currently serves as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Nicaragua to the UN, and previously was Deputy Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the United Nations since March 2007.
Update on Chiapas and the Zapatistas’ Continuing Struggles
Video now available! Bill Jungels, Tom Potts, and Christine Eber, ROCLA’s January presenters, have all spent many years in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state, where most inhabitants are impoverished indigenous Maya.
ROCLA Fall 2020 Newsletter
COVID-19 has affected all aspects of our daily lives, our activities and what motivates us as human beings. But ROCLA’s all-volunteer, committed, Steering Committee members have worked hard to move forward. We host speakers and monthly programs to provide you with accurate, on the ground, current information about Latin America. With the assistance of Zoom, we have “traveled” to Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Mexican border. Our new convener, Tom Ward, reaches out to potential speakers and facilitates a very lively discussion following each monthly program.
Sowing Seeds of Peace: Inside Colombia’s Peace-Building Initiatives
ROCLA is co-sponsoring with the Committee on U.S. Latin America Relations (CUSLAR Public Issues Forum, at Cornell University) and the Cornell Latin American Studies program. Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 11:30 AM to 1 PM ET - “Sowing Seeds of Peace: Inside Colombia’s Peace-Building Initiatives.”
