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MEXICO-UNITED STATES - How a US Republican President and a Mexican Youth Ended a Monarchy

Michael Hogan — 2017-01-09T18:25:47Z

On April 10, 1863, Maximilian I and his wife Charlotte were installed as Emperor and Empress of Mexico. They came to power at the behest of the Napoleon III who had first sent armed forces to collect on past-due Mexican debts, but then encouraged them to stay and finally to conquer the country. At that time the French Army was the most powerful in the world. Although Mexico provided stout resistance, including an underdog victory at Puebla (Cinco de Mayo), its army was finally overwhelmed by (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / histoire / historia, México, United States of America, gouvernements / gobiernos, historiographie / historiografia, coopération / cooperación

ESTADOS UNIDOS - Nuevas oportunidades para los estudiantes latinos: las Universidades Católicas en las Américas

Michael Hogan — 2007-03-04T23:45:00Z

Con las alzas en las colegiaturas de las universidades estadounidenses, y la disminución del porcentaje de gastos respaldados por fondos becarios, muchos padres de familia se encuentran con la educación superior fuera de su alcance económico. Para algunos, la solución ha sido hipotecar su hogar, o que el estudiante acumule deuda prohibitivo vía préstamos. Otras familias han elegido los universitarios comunitarios, menos costosos, o aun han decidido privarse de la educación universitaria (…)

- Estados Unidos / United States of America, América Latina, éducation / educación, universités / universidades

US - New Educational Opportunities for Latinos: Catholic Universities in the Americas

Michael Hogan — 2007-02-27T23:36:48Z

As tuitions rise at universities in the United States and scholarship funds pay for an even smaller percentage of costs, many parents are finding college education for their children beyond their financial reach. For some, the answer has been to mortgage the home, or for the student to take out prohibitive loans. For others, the choice has been a community college or even to forego college entirely, and for the student enter the work force as untrained labor.
A program begun in 2004 now (…)

- United States / United States of America, América Latina, éducation / educación, universités / universidades

The Third Age

Michael Hogan — 2007-01-05T02:12:53Z

A few days before Christmas a colleague sent me an unsolicited email cartoon with the note: “This should cheer you up!” The single frame showed a bent-over, sunken-chested, balding man in his seventies as a doctor examined him with a stethoscope. The caption said, “Remember those twenty extra years I told you you'd have if you followed a healthy life style? Well, now you're living them.”
Having recently been turned down by the search committee at a New England university because of age, I (…)

- Global / United States of America, Global, opinion / opinión, société / sociedad

US - A Cure for Historical Amnesia: How Latinos Can Remind Us Who We Really Are (by Michael Hogan)

Michael Hogan — 2006-05-24T23:47:53Z

“The past is not dead; the past is not even the past." (William Faulkner)
Based on flimsy intelligence, which was then cynically manipulated to prove just cause for a preemptive war, the United States attacked in force. Its superior armaments overwhelmed the enemy. The American press jubilantly supported the invasion and subsequent occupation, praising the Americans as liberators. Though the U.S. suffered losses, they were minimal compared to those sustained by the enemy and by the (…)

- United States / relations internationales / relaciones internacionales, conflits / conflictos, migrations / migraciones, United States of America, América Latina

LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building: The Rise of a New Latin America

Michael Hogan — 2006-04-13T15:00:27Z

A century and a half of interventions, costly miscalculations, even outright invasions, did not do much to push Latin America away from its sometimes passive-aggressive, sometimes envious, but always dependent relationship with the United States. It took the generalized failure of neo-liberalism, coupled with four years of U.S. indifference to the region following the events of 9/11 and the unilateral megalomania of pre-emptive war, for Latin Americans to decide it was time to determine (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / politique / política, relations internationales / relaciones internacionales, United States of America, América Latina

GUATEMALA - Desmantelando las Bandas Centroamericanas y Recobrando una Generación Perdida

Jorge A. Agraz, Michael Hogan — 2006-02-09T15:54:49Z

Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Carlos, mi chofer, era un ex-policía federal. Pesaba unas buenas doscientas libras y sobrepasaba los seis pies de altura. Él me fue asignado por un hombre de negocios del área, a quien conocí en la Ciudad de Guatemala después de que le había explicado que quería visitar algunas áreas en donde pudiera ver actividad vandálica. Cuando llegamos al tianguis o mercado local, Carlos estacionó la Ford Explorer y abrió el compartimiento de guantes. Se quitó su (…)

- Latinoamérica y Caribe / violence / violencia, politiques répressives / políticas represivas, Guatemala, maras & pandillas

AMERICA LATINA - Las Vidas Perdidas y las Almas Empobrecidas: El Fracaso de la Iglesia en América Latina (Michael Hogan, AlterInfos)

Jorge A. Agraz, Michael Hogan — 2006-01-30T02:37:53Z

Cuando el cardenal católico y conservador José Ratzinger fue electo Papa Benedicto XVI, muchos observadores vieron esto como el principio de un periodo reaccionario para la Iglesia Católica junto con una clara oposición al clero femenino, a la unión de homosexuales, la clonación, la libertad de elección, los movimientos ecuménicos, el uso de métodos anticonceptivos para la prevención del SIDA, la teología de la liberación, la organización de la comunidad de católicos laicos y el activismo (…)

- Latinoamérica y Caribe / églises / iglesias, América Latina

GUATEMALA - Dismantling the Central American Gangs and Recovering a Lost Generation

Michael Hogan — 2006-01-18T14:23:53Z

Carlos, my driver, was a former federal policeman. He weighed a good two hundred pounds and was well over six feet. He was assigned to me by a local businessman whom I knew in Guatemala City after I explained that I wanted to visit some areas where I could see gang activity. When we arrived at the tianguis or local market, he pulled over the Ford Explorer and opened the glove compartment. He unclipped his automatic from his belt, and put it inside along with his wallet. “Take a few (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / violence / violencia, politiques répressives / políticas represivas, Guatemala, maras & pandillas