In a win for historic protests against a controversial transnational copper mine, Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled the project’s contract unconstitutional. For weeks, unrest centered on the immediate ...

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 ...

Miguel, an Afro-Colombian refugee, is sitting on a mattress in the single room he rents with his wife and five-year-old son in the south of Quito, Ecuador. They are originally from Buenaventura, a ...

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 ...

In 2016, I interviewed 26 members of the Argentine armed forces who were in active duty during the country’s last military dictatorship, some of whom were under house arrest. After three months of ...

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 ...

The Mexico City metropolitan area is so enormous it almost had two time zones. In 2001, the head of the government for the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador now Mexican president refused ...

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 ...

The split within Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party took a violent turn in October, amid an extended campaign of blockades by supporters of former president Evo Morales. The blockades ...

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 ...

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the collective scapegoating and mass deportation of Haitians for political gain lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Bertin M ...

On December 25, 2022, Brazil’s Federal District police detained a suspect for trying to blow up a tanker truck full of gasoline near the parking lot of the Brasília International Airport. The man, ...