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Football, Facism and Fantasy: Peru at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
In the summer of 1936, forty Peruvian athletes arrived in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin to compete in the Summer Olympics for the very first time. They would end up leaving early and empty handed, and return to a heroes’ welcome back home.
The Triple C: The Indigenous Guard Protecting the South Bronx from Real Violence
As federal and local authorities in New York City increase pressure on the migrant community in this city, men -but mostly women- from the Maya, Garifuna, Nahua, Tu’un Savi, and Naa Savi communities monitor the streets of the South Bronx through a neighborhood information system that includes instant communication groups, surveillance cameras, emergency phones, territorial maps, and nighttime operations to prevent criminal activity by the government and any suspicious activity in the neighborhood.
On Day Without Immigrants, a group marches from the U.N. to Times Square in New York
A crowd of about one hundred people, many wrapped in Mexican, Ecuadorian and El Salvadorean flags, gathered at the corner of East 43rd Street and 1st Avenue in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York.