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, ...

As an instructor at Rutgers-New Brunswick, I have had the opportunity to observe how other White Latinxs learn about and discuss whiteness. Recently, a former student reached out to discuss race and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

2021 was the bloodiest year in Ecuador’s prison history. Four massacres in three different supermax penitentiaries took the lives of over 320 inmates in Cuenca, Latacunga, and Guayaquil. Forensic ...

Since February 2021, eleven massacres have occurred in Ecuador’s prisons, resulting in the deaths of more than 400 inmates under gruesome circumstances. The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons is the center ...

¿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 ...

Two weeks ago, on December 6, police fired tear gas and live ammunition at villagers who had blocked the road into their community of several hundred residents, called Chapin Abajo in northern ...

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 ...

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 ...