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This week Berenice Villagomez, the Latin American Studies Program Coordinator at UofT, brought "De Noche Vienes" by the Mexican writer Elena Ponjatowska to El CafeciTO.

El CafeciTO brings you an extra episode on your timeline.

We covered an event co-hosted by the Latin American Studies Program and Munk One called Transitions: A Conversation on Current Latin American Affairs with Prof. Donald Kingsbury and Prof. Victor Rivas.

CafeciTO is back with its first roundtable episode. This time Leonardo got together with our team of commentators (Ana Rodriguez, Guilherme Patury, and Raquel Serrano) to hear their thoughts on being a Latino in Toronto. In this episode, you'll discover Leonardo's hate for Pablo Escobar, get to know who really owns Tim Hortons, and understand how the Colombian flag can be so traumatic.

Cecilia Benevides (Uruguayan Spanish) reads chapter one and two of Gabriel Garcia Marquéz's 1961 novel "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba".

No me vuelvas a decir "Bebé" (¡No!)

Yo no soy tuyo ni de nadie, yo soy sólo de mí

No me vuelvas a decir "Bebé" (Yeh, eh)

Ya tú lo sabe' que yo no estoy ni un poquito pa' ti

No me vuelvas a decir "Bebé" (Uh, uh, uh)

Yo no soy tuyo ni de nadie, yo soy sólo de mí

Y no me vuelvas a decir "Bebé" (¡Eh!)

Ya tú lo sabe' que yo no estoy ni un poquito pa' ti

The Central American migrant caravan dominated the headlines all through 2018 and continued to make the headlines up until last month when news of a new caravan emerged mid-January. On February 1st, I sat down with International Relations and LAS student Prachi Singh to talk about why these migrants are leaving the Northern Triangle and how the United States has taken advantage of legal loopholes to make that journey even more difficult.

S01E05 - Soy Argenchino: Language and Identity among young Chinese Argentines by el CafeciTO - Latin American Studies @ UofT

In 2010, four generations of Haitian-Dominicans were stripped of their Dominican nationality with a single stroke of a pen. For this week's episode, Joan Mella, a fourth year student from the Dominican Republic, explains how the island's brutal dictator, Rafael Trujillo, fabricated an anti-Haitian cultural and historical narrative that continues to dictate Dominican-Haitian relations to this day.

For our latest episode, I sat down with Pedro Melo and Leonardo Cosenza to reflect on the 2018 Brazilian Election and what a Jair Bolsonaro presidency will mean for the country.

Pedro is a fourth year student. He is the president of the Brazilian Student Association (BRASA)and he is doing a double major in International Relations and Latin American studies with a minor in Political Science. Leonardo is the events coordinator for BRASA and he is in his second year, pursuing a specialist in Peace Conflict and Justice Studies.

This will be our last episode for the Fall semester but we will be back in January with more interesting student interviews!

S01E02 - Getting to know Kawsaxkuna by el CafeciTO - Latin American Studies @ UofT