Many call Gorgona Island “the witch” as it often vanishes from the sight of Afro-descendant communities living 35 kilometres away, in the town of Bazán, on the Colombian Pacific Coast. Although no ...

In May 2021, a person deprived of their liberty in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador was working on the roof of a prison warehouse when he came into contact with a high-voltage cable. The accident ...

Between the 1930 and 1960s, subregions of the Magdalena Medio in Colombia’s Antioquia and Bolivar departments were known as “Shell’s paradise.” I quickly learned why when I visited the region in March ...

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 ...

Marcelo Pérez Pérez knew that his enemies wanted him dead. The priest in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, had been receiving threats for a decade, thanks to his work of constantly decrying ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We have to extinguish the issue before it goes out of control,” says Lieutenant Colonel Medardo Reyes Pego as he walks the narrow halls of Honduras’ headquarters for military intelligence. He’s about ...

When I started my college education in Peru in the late 1990s, a professor who had spent his early youth as a committed “card-carrying” leftist militant shared a seemingly popular old joke: “How do ...

Protestors banging empty plastic bottles came out onto the streets of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo last May, when the city ran short of fresh drinking water. The authorities mixed diluted ...

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For every decision Venezuela’s opposition has made in recent months, the far-rightist María Corina Machado has had the last word. Center-right leaders, meanwhile, have ended up capitulating to her ...