By Alejandro D. González, MAIDP’ 2020, Prior to Harris Alejandro led business development efforts for Cuba’s first independent digital new outlet Things changed for Cubans across the world on December 17, 2014, the day Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro made the historic announcement that their respective governments would begin a process […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
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By Rafael García-Tinajero, MPP’20, former Senior Financial Markets Analyst at the Central Bank of Mexico During the summer of 2019, I had the opportunity to work with the Secretariat of Economic Development of the State Government of São Paulo. It was my first time working in Brazil, and it was […]
By Yusuke Namiki, MAIDP 2020, Japanese Ministry of HLW official On December 14, I landed on the South American continent for the first time in my life to begin the LAM Brazil trip. Brazil was a country that I had been interested in, but hadn’t visited because of the geographic […]
By Yuwen Xiong, MPP’21, former Intern at UNDP China Oi, tudo bem! In the past winter break, together with Latin America Matters and 22 students from Harris, I went to Brazil, the 5th largest country in the world. In this 8-day journey, being thousands of miles away from the U.S, […]
By Anne Kuster, MAIDP 2020, former U.S. Research Fellow, Fulbright Association Joanna and I met the summer we were both eighteen. I was working at Casa Mantay Home for Teen Mothers in Cusco, Peru, where Joanna lived with her five-year-old son, Ricardo. One day, Joanna pointed at a picture of […]
By Santiago Hoyos, MPP’21, Pearson Fellow, former advisor at the Inspector General’s Office – Victims’ and Peace Department On December 5th of 2019, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided to extend the Victims’ and Land Restitution Law until 2030. The Victims’ Law, which was enacted in 2011 for a 10 year […]