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 […]
Andrea Sanmiguel/Contributing Writer Former U.S. Pentagon official Francisco Mora has joined FIU and its Latin American and Caribbean Center after a two-and-a-half-year search for the center’s director. Founded in 1979, the LACC forms linkages through the Americas with high quality education and research, providing a better understanding of countries’ regions and communities. “The opportunity to […]
