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Harvard's Latin America Research Center (LARC) is or was basically just a couple of offices for present and future neoliberal technocrats, no serious research was going on there. The university hasn't ever really had a major presence in the region. Even its so-called Latin American studies...

It should work from the UK if linked to a Pay Pal account. https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/send-money-abroad

I prefer Xoom, a slightly lower exchange rate than WU, but also much lower fees. More or less works the same, ID to pick up cash at many locations, or you can do a direct transfer to an Arg bank.

Aeromexico has a list of labs in Mexico that specialize in Covid tests for travellers. https://aeromexico.com/en-us/actions-covid19/laboratory-alliances

Looks like somebody put too many sugar cubes in their Earl Grey.

If you're just looking to have a long working holiday in Argentina, teaching English locally is not really a practical option. Even outside the pandemic, there is low demand and a lot of competition. If you're just looking to teach English for a year somewhere in South America, try Chile. The...

It was fairly obvious that this was an OAS-CIA operation, one of the many regime changes that occurred under the Obama administration. The most unsettling thing about "Condor II" is that the State Dept's destabilization efforts are being increasingly outsourced to corporate Evangelicals, who...

Much epidemiological research before COVID seems to have had a general consensus that quarantines are most effective as a temporary stopgap measure and when targetted at the most vulnerable population. Unfortunately with COVID, lockdowns became more of a political policy than a health measure...

I can help. Mexico probably carries the least risk, the highest return as far as your situation goes. No restrictions on travel, zero chance of new lockdown even in the event of another wave, plenty of international flights in all directions, low cost of living in case you get "stuck." The...

"Gigantes como el Obelisco, campeones de fútbol, boxeo y hockey. Locatti, Barreda, Monzón y Cordera también, matan por amor. Tanos, gallegos, judíos, criollos, polacos, indios, negros, cabecitas... pero con pedigree francés somos de un lugar santo y profano a la vez, mixtura de alta combustión."

Be proud. At least you're more "native" than Elizabeth Warren.

Australia is a white settler colony with a very defined Anglocentric identity, while Argentina, despite the arrival of European boat people, has the same history of transculturation, racial mixing, and chaotic demographic changes as the rest of Latin America. The bitterness of the...

I don't think this is accurate, because the head of the commission and supporter of the measure is Michelle Bachelet who is one of the strongest anti-Maduro voices that there is. So this is much less about Venezuela, than a pragmatic vote with the majority which also included China (who's...

Israel has been recalling one by one the ambassadors of all 24 states that voted in favor of the resolution. Happens every time, nothing new. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-summons-mexican-ambassador-over-un-rights-council-vote-1.9860740

Maybe he doesn't speak to "blacks" but has bitten one. His first known victim was a Dutch player of North African descent. https://www.businessinsider.com/luis-suarez-biting-history-2014-6#more-world-cup-2018-coverage-5

Another version that's circulated was that all he said was "venga negrito" or something similar. Like you said, only the players really know. But if your version is true, and if he kicks people for "being black," then does that mean he bites people for being Serbian, or Italian?

Not a supporter of either team but Suárez's punishment was obscene in this situation when Captain Wifeshagger John Terry was only banned for 4 matches for calling someone a "f--- black c---, fucking knobhead." Evra's was understandably offended to a degree, because nègre in French doesn't usualy...

This article is an example of a conclusion being based on "projected" findings that fit the researcher's (and the author's) narrative, rather than actual evidence. For example: "Delgado and Gomes prefer data from a 2005 study conducted by Afro-descendant researchers that projects 20% of the...

What exactly is the benefit of paying a third-party service to expedite a passport? According to the State Dept, "You will not receive your passport any faster than you would if you applied in person at a Passport Agency."...