Diego Diaz | Asst. News director Chants, jeers, and comparisons to Communist Cuba engulfed FIU’s Wertheim Performing Art Center on Dec. 9 as the crowd made their opposition known to Susan Eckstein’s work “Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America.” The Boston University professor of sociology would subsequently publish a guest column in […]
Michael McEwen | PantherNOW Staff On Sunday, Jan. 1 Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as Brazil’s 39th President following a contentious campaign that pitted him against the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who did not attend the ceremony as is custom and instead departed for Florida. Best known as Lula, the former trade unionist […]
By: Danielle Haller // Contributing Writer Take a break from the doom and gloom and get a bird’s eye view of how cultures around the globe are bringing in positivity and coping with COVID in 2021. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury The power […]
Neeraj Konathan / Staff Writer Yannis Papastamatiou, an FIU professor and marine scientist, noticed something out of the ordinary with the world’s most dangerous sharks, they hunted in packs rather than alone. The week-long television program “SharkFest” which started streaming July 5 on Disney+, documents research on sharks including their habitats and human attacks. Papastamatiou […]
Valentina Palm, Elise Gregg, and Jordan Coll Staff Writers Thousands of Cubans marched the streets of the island on Sunday, in the largest demonstrations against the communist government in the last 60 years. “No tenemos miedo,” shouted protestors who flooded the streets of Havana and at least 14 other cities. Peaceful protestors demanded food, water […]
By Lara Coiro / Staff Writer Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home this past Wednesday, July 7, plunging the country into greater political instability. The assailants gained access to Moïse’s home by posing as US Drug Enforcement Agency officials, identities which have been confirmed false by a senior Biden administration official. First […]
Diego Diaz / Staff Writer For the first time in 12 years a new prime minister will lead Israel. However, it’s new government still faces the decades-old deadly conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. This past Sunday, June 5, marked a historic moment for the state of Israel, with the rise of a new coalition government, […]
Michael McEwen / Contributing Writer The FIU Model United Nations student delegation ranked third place in North America, marking their eighth consecutive year placing in the top five programs. “We’ve been consistently top-five for the past decade and that has a lot to do with those who came before us,” said Ashley Weathers, who served […]
Michael McEwen / Contributing Writer For over a month, anti-government demonstrators and police have clashed in the streets of Colombia over an array of social issues relating to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the country. Protests began in late April after the administration of President Ivan Duque announced a controversial tax reform bill which prescribed […]
Diego Diaz / Staff Writer Recent airstrikes and clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces have sparked a new wave of discussion on social media among students. A police crackdown of the Al-Aqsa protest during the final week of Ramadan injured more than 300 Palestinians, and subsequent Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket attacks left 122 Palestinian […]
Jordan Coll / News Director After almost three weeks of court deliberations, former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges; second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. “With the verdict in the Derek Chauvin case expected this afternoon, we want to acknowledge the heightened level of […]
Diego Diaz / Contributing Writer Though many in Miami have heard countless tales about life within Cuba, few have experienced living in the only communist country in Latin America. Even fewer have had the experience of Noel Risco, a FIU junior majoring in biology who spent the holidays in Cuba during the country’s recent COVID-19 […]
