Most people wouldn’t associate Balkan pop culture with Latin America. However, Mexican music was massively popular in the former Yugoslavia for several generations — first in earnest, and then as farce. The YuMex phenomenon is partly explained by Yugoslavia’s unique position in the Cold War after 1948 — a socialistContinue Reading
This edited article by Ouch Sony and Danielle Keeton-Olsen is from VOD News, an independent news site in Cambodia, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. After surviving the Khmer Rouge regime by literally burying the tools of his trade underground, Om Yom, one amongContinue Reading
Three months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Stephanie L. Blair, a first-generation Guyanese-American, mapped out the concept for Sadie’s Caribbean Alphabet, a book for children who don’t typically see images of themselves in mainstream literature. While recovering from surgery, Blair, an administrative assistant at aContinue Reading
The public discussion around refugees and migration continues in Trinidad and Tobago, following the state’s decision to deport 16 Venezuelan minors and 11 adults on November 22, shortly before they were scheduled to have a habeas corpus hearing. The group was returned to Trinidad and Tobago on November 24, asContinue Reading
Hector Amaya entered the United States illegally from El Salvador in 2004. Despite currently being allowed to live and work legally in the US under the government’s Temporary Protection Status (TPS), Amaya lives in constant fear of deportation. The TPS was set to expire for Salvadorans on January 2, 2020, but an agreementContinue Reading
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Friedrich Ebert Stiftung blog and is republished here with permission with light edits. Following the World Health Organization’s designation of the coronavirus as a pandemic, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to enter a phase of confinement. On March 23, the governmentContinue Reading
In September 2020, the Congolese government, through the Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and new Information and Communication Technologies, announced the establishment of the Mobile Device Registry (RAM). In the announcement, the minister expressed great confidence that the registry would be an essential tool for the protection of Congolese users ofContinue Reading
Just after 11 p.m. EST on January 4, news broke that Jamaican hotelier Gordon “Butch” Stewart, the self-made businessman who perfected the all-inclusive tourism model the Caribbean is famous for, had passed away at a Miami hospital at age 79. In keeping with his wishes, his family said that theContinue Reading
This story was originally published in Chinese on the Stand News on January 4, 2021. The following English translation is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Hong Kong’s homes are getting increasingly smaller as “nano flats” proliferate in the world’s most expensive property market, leading to aContinue Reading
Muslin, the fine handwoven cotton fabric that originated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is now set for a revival. The fabric, produced from a variant of the cotton plant grown only in the area south of Dhaka, has a long history. Produced since pre-colonial times and especially favoured byContinue Reading