Queridos CLAGistas and LASG members, 

Happy summer to all! 

The CLAG/LASG Summer 2025 Newsletter is here!!

I write to you from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where the layers of culture, transformation, and complexity that is shared with so much of Latin America feel especially present. As we navigate this summer of 2025, there’s no escaping the reality of what the past six months under the current US administration have meant for the region we study and love, and also for the important spaces in academia in which we share our intellect. The impacts are everywhere we look. From the dissolution of USAID leaving countless community organizations without funding, to asylum protections being stripped away, to massive budget cuts threatening research funding and the projects that depend on it. The infrastructure that supports our critical scholarship feels under siege. 

But here’s what gives me hope: the work our community does has never felt more essential. Reading through everyone’s newsletter submissions is incredibly powerful and uplifting, especially in the face of uncertainty and hopelessness. 

Thank you to everyone who sent in their incredible work for this newsletter. Your submissions remind us that intellectual community endures, that knowledge-sharing continues, and that we’re not facing this alone. Keep up the amazing work and support. Though it is still six months away, I look forward to hopefully seeing many of you at the conference in Puerto Vallarta, hearing more about the important work we all do, and continuing these important conversations! 

Con cariño y resistencia, 

Elise