When I first met Jean* in early 2019, he had been living in the Dominican Republic for almost seven years. Originally from Jacmel, Haiti, Jean moved to the Dominican Republic as a young man for the ...

September 1 marks two years since a Honduran judge ordered seven community leaders into pretrial detention for opposing an iron ore mine in Tocoa, a municipality in the country’s northern Colón ...

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 ...

Leer este artículo en español. Bolivia’s most important political force since its 1952 revolution, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is tearing itself apart. Leadership rifts threaten not only the ...

On November 28, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled a new contract with the Canadian firm operating Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine to be unconstitutional. Panamanians celebrated outside the ...

Leer este artículo en español. For the second time in a row, a businessman and heir to a banana fortune has defeated the presidential candidate forged under the leadership of former president Rafael ...

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This piece appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! In October 2019, street protests and violent clashes rocked Chile. As the ...

On August 26, Colombians took to the streets to celebrate four months of resistance. Across the nation, people carried signs, sang, danced, and painted murals. But these peaceful demonstrations were ...

Bonnefoy’s book documents in rich narrative detail the struggle to bring human rights perpetrators to justice in post-dictatorship Chile, in a democratic transition still monopolized by the military.

During the month of March, protesters in Paraguay have demanded that President Mario Abdo Benítez resign or be removed from office due to his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. On March 17, ...

The true story of José Guillermo “El Ñeñe” Hernández would have to be set to accordion music. Not some overproduced pop crossover, either. This would-be classic vallenato, live composition, an all-out ...