In the 1990s, following a coup, the United States instituted an economic embargo against Haiti that devastated its middle class. After 1994, when the United Nations removed the coup leaders, the World Bank insisted the country import rice from the U.S. Combined, these massive socio-economic shocks sent thousands…

Rising sea levels and more intense and frequent storms are having a direct effect on Florida’s housing market. According to ATTOM, a real estate data research firm, the state now has the third-highest number of foreclosures in the United States, driven largely by skyrocketing insurance premiums that directly…

Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma is our southern neighbor’s version of the National Mall: full of enormous marble and bronze statues commemorating the country’s greatest heroes. However, a grassroots movement of average Mexican citizens is erecting equally impressive monuments to their family members who died or disappeared…

The six-women relay team completed the race without stopping for two days and nights, this past weekend.The 6 indigenous Rarámuri women from the the mountains of Chihuahua, MX, made history by being the first group of women to complete the Speed Project ultramarathon. They ran in traditional huaraches…