The UCSC Distinguished Alumna of the Year spoke at the Namaste Lounge to a crowd of LALS and politics students, some of whom crowded on the floor around the Council on Foreign Relations guru.

Fourth-year Merrill student Moises Plascenia is preparing to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Plascenia will leave for Jose Maria Morales, Mexico, this June and will study and volunteer with other students there through the Community Agroecology Network (CAN).

Bush was the devil. And he smelled like sulfur.

That was how Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez often referred to former President George W., along with characterizing him as a dictator, a fascist and a cowboy he couldn’t talk to since he felt Bush was a “Texan who walks around shooting from the hip.”

America has benefitted majorly from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But what are the costs of these benefits? These are the stories from Oaxaca.