Category: Issue #3 | Fall/Winter 2024

Selling Degrees: An analysis of the higher education system crisis in Peru during the last decades

Fidel Revilla Neoliberal policies and the deregulation of higher education in Peru have caused a severe educational crisis in the last few years. New private institutions prioritize profit over quality of education; indeed, these institutions deceive thousands of young Peruvian students who see the university as a way to generate social mobility (Benavides and Haag …

Ecological Crisis and Resilience in Metztitlán, México

Lily Zander The negative synergies of emerging environmental crises and the effects of climate change after nearly a century of prioritizing neoliberal, free-market systems have been discussed and studied at length. Disproportionate Global North carbon emissions are provoking extreme heat waves, shorter rainy seasons, and intense tropical storms throughout the country of Mexico. The combined …

Thinking Through Crisis in Latin America