Two weeks ago, on December 6, police fired tear gas and live ammunition at villagers who had blocked the road into their community of several hundred residents, called Chapin Abajo in northern ...

In a hair dye factory in Medellín, Colombia, Yaricel del Carmen Vielma sat facing a bare concrete wall, rushing to meet her weekly quota. During every eight-hour shift, she filled tiny tubes with ...

In what prosecutors called a “landmark ruling in the fight for human rights,” a U.S. jury in Miami has found banana giant Chiquita Brands International liable for the deaths of Colombian civilians due ...

The victory of Javier Milei in Argentina’s presidential elections last November exploded a veritable atomic bomb, whose shockwaves reach far beyond the Latin American country. The paleolibertarian ...

This piece appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! In December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also ...

The Amazon rainforest is the biological heart of planet Earth. Its variety of mammals, amphibians, and reptiles number in the hundreds, with these groups together accounting for more than a thousand ...

Juan Bravo did not realize when he entered the Caraza Shopping Center on December 19, 2001 that his world was about to change. December in the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires was never an easy ...

At the endpoint of the Afobaka paved road from Paramaribo, past the abandoned aluminum processing plants, stands Atjoni, a small town in central Suriname. The town’s quay is a busy hub, visited by ...

Chicago’s spatial landscape has been home to numerous multiethnic and transnational communities over the centuries. Very seldom is the Mexican experience part of this story in the Midwest, let alone ...

Leer este artículo en español. Nayib Bukele has changed the map of political pluralism in El Salvador. On February 4, in elections full of irregularities, the president was unconstitutionally ...

This piece appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! In November 2022, key figures of the Latin America Right gathered at an ...

At the reproductive healthcare center Morada Violeta in Mexico City, midwives are seen as defenders of women and gender expansive people’s rights and autonomy. They offer personalized and politicized ...