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Between two Americas

Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson): Teaching Torture at the School of the Americas. From U.S. Intellectual History blog, between two Americas: Kahlil Chaar-Perez on Jose Marti as a Latin American/Latino intellectual (and part 2 and part 3); and what is “our canon”? Between Latina/o and U.S. Intellectual History (and more). Anglo-American media: Why so interested in Latin America’s human rights abuses? Ted Wilkinson reviews U.S. Ambassadors to Mexico: The Relationship Through Their Eyes by Dolia Estevez. As the United States grows more Latino, it won’t drift away from Canada. The U.S. may be heading toward European-style secularization — more surprisingly, several Latin American countries mirror conditions in the States. The next big thing: Barbara Kotschwar and Jeffrey J. Schott on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Latin America. Disputed finds put humans in South America 22,000 years ago: Brazilian site may have been home to people before the Clovis hunters.