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-16 posts tagged "Mexico"
Jessica Merdes | Thursday, November 20, 2014
More than 100 Notre Dame students, faculty and South Bend community members gathered at the Grotto on Thursday night for a remembrance prayer vigil to show support for the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico. In September, students from the Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa were abducted during a peaceful protest. Since then, the protest movement
J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Fausto Hernandez Trillo, professor of economics at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), addressed the causes of anemic economic growth in Mexico in a lecture Tuesday sponsored by the Kellogg Institute. The talk, entitled “The Sluggish Mexican Economy: A Tale of Two Countries?”, focused on the history of the Mexican economy over the last half
Jeremy Cappello Lee | Monday, November 10, 2014
Photographer and journalist David Bacon explored the relationship between employment rates and migration in a lecture Monday titled “The Right to Stay Home: Justice for Migrants and Sending Communities.” Bacon said many cases of migration from Mexico to the United States can be attributed to joblessness and limited educational opportunities south of the border. “One of the most important movements
Alyssa Lyon | Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Rafael Fernandez de Castro Medina, head of the department of international studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and former foreign policy advisor to former Mexican president Felipe Calderon, examined Latin America as a hotspot of increasing violence and crime in a lecture Tuesday. In his presentation, entitled “The World’s Most Violent Region: Causes
Emilie Kefalas | Sunday, September 21, 2014
Students discussed legal and illegal immigration at Saint Mary’s College on Friday as part of the discussion-based Justice Friday’s series. Notre Dame senior Juan Rangel and Saint Mary’s senior Dara Marquez led the conversation, asking students and faculty to consider their familiarity with the subject of immigration. Rangel, head of the Notre Dame immigration advocacy club, said
Kayla Mullen | Thursday, February 27, 2014
Jorge E. Traslosheros of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gave a lecture titled “Constitutional Reform and Religious Liberty in Mexico” on Monday afternoon in the Biolchini Hall of Law. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Mexico Working Group and the Notre Dame Law School. Traslosheros discussed the history