After the Sandinistas took power in 1979 as only the second armed leftist movement to do so in Latin America, the small country of Nicaragua became the center of the world. Twenty years after the ...

Amy is a secondary Spanish teacher and a former community organizer with NY’s immigrant community. She is completing her Master’s in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.

Mientras el presidente Petro intensifica sus esfuerzos para detener las exportaciones de carbón a Israel, los activistas presionan para que ... As President Petro ramps up efforts to halt coal exports ...

NACLA is getting a new website! We are still working out some glitches with the website launch so please be patient as we migrate and update our content. Based in Florida and charged by federal ...

With flowy skirts and pants made of shredded banana trees, simple cotton cloths tied around their faces as masks, and cardboard cutouts of computer chips hanging around their necks, Vulgar Fraction, a ...

Jogo de bicho, which literally translates as “animal game,” was created in 1892 by João Batista Drummond, a baron who owned Rio de Janeiro’s first zoological garden. Seeking to attract more visitors ...

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 ...

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 ...