Conference of Latin American Geography
Colleagues and friends joined in honoring recipients of AAG Honors, Fellows, Specialty Group and other awards during the annual special luncheon on Sunday, April 7, 11:45 AM – 2:00 PM, Ballroom Salon 3, Lobby Level, Marriott. Christopher...
The Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG) is the premier organization for geographers engaging in research in Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of this group is to foster research, education, and service related to Latin...
CLAG member Kristen Conway-Gómez interviewed for NOVA article. “Community engagement is an essential ingredient in wildlife and natural conservation,” says Kristen Conway-Gómez, a geographer and conservationist at California StatePolytechnic University, Pomona, who did not participate in the research. “We...
CLAG member Martha Bell writes for El Comercio (Perú). Octubre marca el comienzo de las crecientes (o avenidas) del río Rímac. Este aumento en el caudal es el resultado de las lluvias estacionales de la sierra e...
CLAG member Martha Bell writes for El Comercio (Perú). “El sistema de agua potable de Lima refleja una apuesta ecológica no sostenible, resultado acumulativo de múltiples decisiones tomadas durante siglos de ocupación de la ciudad costera” “Para...
JLAG mention in The Guardian. Indigenous federations and other Peruvians have responded fiercely to a proposed law promoting the construction of highways in some of the remotest parts of the Peruvian Amazon near the border with Brazil....
Kendra McSweeney and and Sarah Chayes in the The Washington Post. The news out of Honduras has taken dizzying turns since the Nov. 26 presidential election — some predictably sickening, but some so exceptional as to startle...
VIRU, Peru — The desert blooms now. Blueberries grow to the size of Ping-Pong balls in nothing but sand. Asparagus fields cross dunes, disappearing over the horizon. The desert produce is packed and shipped to places like...
Los narcotraficantes y su emergente burguesía, son instrumentos en la expansión de la propiedad privada y en la concentración de tierras, impulsando el sistema capitalista selva adentro, perjudicando comunidades indígenas … [ lea mas ] El Pulso...
by David S. Salisbury on 8 September 2017 Three years ago this month, my friends Edwin Chota and Jorge Ríos were assassinated along with Francisco Pinedo and Leoncio Quintícima as they hiked through their homelands in the...
