From World History Connected, a forum on Latin America and world history. Robert J. Miller and Micheline D'Angelis (Lewis and Clark): Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery. Fabiana Serviddio (Buenos Aires): Exhibiting identity: Latin America Between the Imaginary and the Real. Cassandra M. Sweet (Pontificia) and Dalibor S. Eterovic (Adolfo Ibanez): How Women and Illiterates Shaped Education Outcomes in 20th Century Latin America. Victor A. Menaldo (Washington): Jose el Plomero: The Enforcement Costs of Progressive Taxation, Constitutional Engineering and Redistribution in Latin America. From NYRB, Lilia M. Schwarcz on Rio’s New Reality Show. Atlas Obscura visits Fordlandia, Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation and American colony located in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. One of the world's grandest waterfalls is in Peru, and no one knew about it until 2006. Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia — what's behind the blooms? Colombia ranks fourth in the world in the number of spoken indigenous languages, but indigenous groups are coming under massive pressure to assimilate. A lost city is revealed under centuries of jungle growth in Guatemala. At first thought, Tijuana has little to do with the Olmecs, who lived in the rich lowlands of Mexico’s Gulf Coast and created a great civilization that was at its height between 800 and 500 BC. A review of The Reinvention of Mexico: National Ideology in a Neoliberal Era. Here lies a bunch of Mexican drug dealers: The tombs of Jardines del Humaya in the Mexican state of Sinaloa seem to have been inspired by the great pyramids of Egypt. From Naked Punch, here is Javier Sicilia's open letter to Mexico's politicians and criminals. Susan Pick on Mexico’s struggle to “Vivir Mejor”.
