An extended version of this article is available on Jafrikayiti.com. In January 2003, Haitians were in the midst of planning celebrations for their bicentennial liberation from the white slavers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is Part II of a series in partnership with Earthworks on oil and gas impacts in Latin America. Read Part I. With record-setting fires in the Amazon dominating headlines in recent years, ...

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 ...