Posts Tagged ‘Latin America’
“¡Las Sandinistas!” Filmmaker Jenny Murray
November 29, 2019 – “¡Las Sandinistas!” is a documentary that chronicles the brave women on the front lines of not only combat, but social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista revolution and what would go on to become the controversial Contra war. NMPBS aired the documentary earlier this year. Correspondent Russell Contreras spoke to filmmaker Jenny…
Read MoreNew York Times National Correspondent Simón Romero
May 10, 2019 – New Mexico-born Simon Romero is a national correspondent with The New York Times who has traveled all over Latin America. A graduate of Harvard College, Romero later studied history at the University of São Paulo. Romero joined the Times in 1999 where he covered financial issues from Brazil and later moved…
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