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With the Mexican drama described by Letras Libres as "a movie about what makes us human [and the] hope of a better tomorrow, no matter how hard it seems," writer/director Sergio Tovar Velarde's Four Moons will be screened at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on June 11, this 2014 critical hit the second of four award-winning independent films to be shown throughout June in

In this collection of essays, Tedi Lopez Mills, one of Mexico’s premier poets, deals with the complexities of everyday life, from sudden death to friendship.

El Centro Fellows The El Centro Fellows have expertise in and commitment to Latin America, support SWJ's particular focus on the small wars in the region, and agree with SWJ's general approach to advancing discussion and awareness in the field through community dialog and publishing.

Set in her native Veracruz, Fernanda Melchor's chronicles tell of violence and human degradation

El Centro Fellows The El Centro Fellows have expertise in and commitment to Latin America, support SWJ's particular focus on the small wars in the region, and agree with SWJ's general approach to advancing discussion and awareness in the field through community dialog and publishing.

In this collaborative workshop, you'll explore how to find, report and write about people undergoing or surviving trauma. Pulitzer Center grantee Terry Greene Sterling will take you through the steps and help you figure out how to ethically and accurately humanize your journalism.

How the internet and the government conspired to drown out public discourse at just the moment Mexican democracy truly needs it.

A massive hack of Mexico's Defense department has highlighted some unsavory relationships between criminal gangs, cartels and a small group in the military. Mexico's president has downplayed the hack.

He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This is perhaps why so much of Yépez’s critique of the Mexico City literary establishment focuses on money: who gets it, who doesn’t, and who decides who belongs in each category.

Fernando Vicente Sánchez is a Spanish painter and illustrator, born in Madrid in November 1963. His early work as an illustrator was published in the early eighties in the Madriz magazine,where she would work on an ongoing basis both in the field of illustration as a cartoon. Since then he has w