Photos of detained and disappeared women hang at the University of Chile's Juan Goméz Millas Campus in Macul, Santiago, on September 5, 2022, the day of the plebiscite on the draft new constitution.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 January 2021, activists with Cosecha Indiana, a state branch of Movimiento Cosecha, unfurled a blanket across the White River State Park Bridge in Washington, Indiana. The blanket read: “Licencias ...

Al Qaeda. The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel. Feminist collectives. Students of the Ayotzinapa teacher training school. So reads a list of groups that could pose a threat to the operations of the ...

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 ...

As Colombia’s first leftist national government got underway in August 2022, Indigenous communities in the southwestern Cauca department’s sugarcane-growing regions sent the administration a clear ...

This piece appeared in the Winter 2023 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! In 2003, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques won an important victory.

Carnival preparations are in full swing in Rio de Janeiro this week. Costumes are frantically sewn in secret warehouses, sweaty street parties fill the city center with music and glitter, and in the ...

¿A dónde están? Where are they? In Paraguay, the answer to the question of those seeking justice for the disappeared is blunt: they are in the backyard of the elite police headquarters 15 minutes from ...