Fire in the Amazon! Recap of the First Mate Monday of Fall 2019
The Latin American Studies Concentration hosted its first Mate Monday of Fall 2019 on September 16th. Over twenty students and members of faculty gathered to get to know each other, enjoy some yerba mate (served both in the traditional, communal manner as well as in individual tea bags!), and chat about a pressing issue: the current environmental crisis in the Amazon. Most of the group had already seen the headlines from recent weeks: the Amazon is on fire. These fires,…