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Who Owes Whom an Apology? Spain, Mexico, and the American Mirror We Keep Avoiding
As Mexico's president asks Spain to apologize for the conquest, the United States watches from the sidelines. But settler colonialism left different scars than imperial colonialism. An essay on apologies, archives, and what contrition might purchase.
Latin America's Next Boom Is North America's Insurance Policy
Why Latin America's next boom is North America's best insurance policy. For two decades the world's factory pointed east by reflex. Then pandemics and geopolitics broke muscle memory. 'De-risking' entered the catechism, and procurement teams began measuring distance again—how far the ship must.
The Long Reverberation: How the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Years Shaped Latin America
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) did not end on the Jarama or the Ebro; it spilled across the Atlantic into classrooms, publishing houses, barracks, parishes, ports, and headquarters. The Franco regime that followed became a source of exiles who rebuilt Latin American culture and a distant mirror.