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From Hope to Uncertainty: Venezuelans in Far-Right Chile
On January 3, hundreds of Venezuelans flooded the streets of Santiago, Chile, celebrating the removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in a dramatic U.S. military intervention. The illegal raid and kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, brought an abrupt end to Maduro’s 13-year rule over the country. It also killed up to 100 people and led to Maduro and Flores being detained and tried in New York on trumped-up charges related to drug trafficking and terrorism.
In His Father’s Name, an Indigenous Man Takes on the Government for Abuses at the Krenak Reformatory
This article was originally published in Portuguese by Agência Pública on March 31, 2026. After more than a year of being subjected to forced labor, a man “eagerly” awaits the single order that can send him back home, more than 1,600 km away. It is July 1971, one of the most repressive periods of the military dictatorship in Brazil, and he doesn’t have the right to move freely.
Counter-Archives to Border Fascism
This piece appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! When NACLA’s Editorial Committee first began discussing this issue in late 2023, we could not have imagined that, less than two years later, federal agents would be openly killing and abducting people—citizens and migrants, children and adults, documented and undocumented alike—far from the southern border, all in the name of border enforcement. Yet perhaps we should have.
The FBI’s Return to Ecuador Is Nothing New
When Ecuador’s government announced on March 11 that the FBI would open a permanent office in the country, officials presented the move as a necessary response to escalating transnational crime. Interior Minister John Reimberg and U.S. chargé d’affaires Lawrence Petroni framed the initiative as a milestone in bilateral cooperation, aimed at combating drug trafficking, arms flows, money laundering, and terrorism financing. Yet there is little that is new about this announcement.
How the United States Stole Mexico | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 9
Increasingly, Trump has his sights set on Mexico—promising to send in US troops in the name of fighting cartels and advancing a so-called drug war policy. But Trump’s actions harken back to an era of US empire much, much older. See, Mexico has withstood a long history of foreign intervention by the Spanish, French, and multiple times by the United States. In 1848, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the United States.
How the United States Stole Mexico | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 8
Increasingly, Trump has his sights set on Mexico—promising to send in US troops in the name of fighting cartels and advancing a so-called drug war policy. But Trump’s actions harken back to an era of US empire much, much older. See, Mexico has withstood a long history of foreign intervention by the Spanish, French, and multiple times by the United States. In 1848, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the United States.
Milei’s War against the Working Class
On February 27, President Javier Milei’s labor reform was passed by the Argentinian Congress. The reform—leveraged through backroom legislative deals and opposed massively in the streets —is a sweeping rollback of Argentina’s historic labor rights and certain to face fierce resistance in the months ahead. During the first Senate discussion of the bill, on February 11, the park in front of Congress was filled with people seething with anger.
Feminist Fútbol and Historical Memory in Argentina
A Norita, Betty, Tere & las noritas Alongside the conventional chants of “Memory, Truth, and Justice” that are expected to be heard in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo as the country commemorates 50 years since its last military coup will be a surprising sight to less informed onlookers: a soccer ball.
¿Perderá alguna vez la hoja de coca su estigma?
“La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha cometido un error atroz”, insistió David Choquehuanca, exvicepresidente de Bolivia, con la ira y la frustración a flor de piel. “Durante seis décadas, nuestra soberanía como pueblos indígenas ha sido violada por la prohibición internacional de la hoja de coca impuesta por las Naciones Unidas.
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns (Review)
Any researcher of Cuba’s twentieth century who has inspected the catalogue in Santiago de Cuba’s Provincial Archive will note its ample supply of cards listing clubs. The member names inscribed on parchment for each group promise to disclose the active civic life of Cuba’s cradle of independence and revolution: Oriente Province.
Violencia de pandillas y la impunidad en Guatemala
Read this article in English. El 18 de enero, la notoria pandilla Barrio 18 llevó a cabo al menos trece ataques contra agentes y estaciones policiales en y alrededor de la Ciudad de Guatemala en un mismo día, asesinando a 11 oficiales.
Will the Coca Leaf Ever Lose its Stigma?
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has committed an egregious mistake,” insisted David Choquehuanca, former Bolivian Vice-President, his anger and frustration just below the surface. “For six decades we have had our sovereignty as indigenous peoples violated by the United Nations’ international prohibition on the coca leaf.
Gang Violence and the Defense of Impunity in Guatemala
On January 18, the notorious Barrio 18 street gang carried out at least thirteen attacks on police officers and police stations in and around Guatemala City in a single day, killing 11 officers.
The Donroe Coalition | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 8
At least 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on board with Trump’s new military alliance. They are calling it the America’s Counter Cartel Coalition. Latin America’s top right-wing leaders are involved, including El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei. They met in Florida for the event, on March 7. The United States has promised to use lethal force to destroy cartels and narco-traffickers in those nations.
Colombia’s Left Has A Strong Showing in the Legislative Elections
In March 2022, the coalition of left-wing parties known as the Pacto Histórico (Historic Pact) changed the face of Colombian politics by securing the highest voter participation of any internal primary and an unprecedented amount of congressional seats for a progressive political movement.
Faith and Body: New Battle Over Abortion in Argentina
On September 25, as Argentine actress Camila Plaate took the stage after receiving the award for Best Supporting Actress for Belén at the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival, she asked, “Who is Belén? I am Belén.” Belén, the Argentine film directed by Dolores Fonzi, focuses on the true case of a young woman from Tucumán who was imprisoned in 2014 after suffering a miscarriage in a hospital bathroom. She spent 29 months in prison, accused of aggravated homicide.
En Guatemala, un Consejo Indígena lucha contra una compañía minera
En la última década, el pueblo Ch’orti’ de Guatemala ha librado una ardua batalla para expulsar a una empresa minera de su territorio ancestral. En 2012, Cantera Los Manantiales, subsidiaria local de una multinacional estadounidense, adquirió tierras en Olopa, un municipio ubicado en el oriente de Guatemala.
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Review)
Before October 11, 1998, Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was a regular visitor to London, enjoying the privileges of a close relationship with former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Regarded as a reliable ally in the fight against international communism, the ties between the two leaders were deepened when Pinochet aided the United Kingdom during the Falklands War, a ten-week military skirmish between the UK and Argentina in 1982 that left nearly 1,000 people dead.
Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in the U.S.A. | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 7
Cuba is facing the greatest existential threat it has seen in decades. Trash is filling streets, because garbage trucks can’t make the rounds. Rolling blackouts, rising food prices and cuts to transportation, university classes, and hospitals amid a gas shortage, the likes of which the country hasn’t seen in years. U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other officials have made it clear that they aren’t interested in anything less than regime change.
Of Presidential Power and Prison Riots in Guatemala
On January 17, riots erupted in three prisons across Guatemala. Armed with guns and makeshift weapons, some with rags tied across their faces, prisoners set fires and barricaded themselves behind mattresses and debris. Simultaneously, alleged gang members gunned down a dozen Guatemalan policemen on streets across at least 13 municipalities.
A Guatemalan Indigenous Council Struggles Against a Mine
In the last decade, Ch’orti’ people of Guatemala have endured a strenuous uphill battle to expel a mining company from their ancestral territory. In 2012, Cantera Los Manantiales, a local subsidiary of a U.S.-based multinational company, purchased land in Olopa, the highlands of Eastern Guatemala.
Dispatch from Minneapolis: We Won, but the Fight is Far From Over
On February 12, 2026, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan announced an end to Operation Metro Surge (OMS), the largest immigration enforcement operation since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was founded in 2002. The announcement came just under three weeks after former Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was reassigned and Homan assumed oversight of the massive immigration operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Rotos corazones: amor y política en los setenta (Review)
Émile Durkheim emphasizes the crucial role of affect in experiences of what he calls “collective effervescence”: exceptional moments of increased social intensity, which can arise in periods of social upheaval and, under special circumstances, lead to revolutionary change.
The Making of Cuba's Crisis
The United States’ ongoing oil blockade has forced Cuba into a severe crisis. Rolling blackouts last up to 18 hours, transportation is all but paralyzed, university classes have been suspended or transferred online, and hospitals are conducting emergency operations only. But Cuba’s current crisis has been long in the making. In a way, ever since 1991, the country has struggled to consolidate a sustainable economic model.
Lawfare Diplomacy: How the U.S. Bullied its Way Back into the Panama Canal
On January 30, 2026, the Panamanian Supreme Court ruled to invalidate the Panama Port Company’s concession over the Balboa and Cristóbal container terminals, located on either end of the Panama Canal.
U.S. Stifles Clean Energy Independence in Latin America and the Caribbean
In September 2025, a joint NGO investigation into the expansion of fossil fuels in Latin America had one unequivocal finding: aggressive fossil fuel expansion in the region is driven almost entirely by international banks and investment companies. According to the study, between 2022-2024, foreign banks based primarily in the Global North provided over 190 companies with funds to drive fossil fuel extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ecuadorian Migrants Caught in the “Everywhere War”
Many Ecuadorian children and their families have been kidnapped by ICE in Minnesota this past month. The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos on January 20, a five-year old kid whose photograph wearing his now-famous bunny-ear hat and red Spiderman backpack as an ICE agent holds him in front of a black van went viral, illustrates the brutality of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Homeland Empire | Under the Shadows, Season 2, Episode 6
Just since the beginning of 2026, U.S. forces have killed people in Caracas, Venezuela, on boat strikes in the Pacific, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a new era, where U.S. law enforcement kill people in plain sight and then blame it on the victims, accusing them of being agitators or terrorists—domestic or foreign—whether they are in fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific or protesting on the streets of Minneapolis. Today’s episode turns the lens back on the United States.
Winter in Havana
The last weeks of January were historically cold in this city of eternal summer, coloring it with a touch of the surreal. “It’s el carnaval de los pobres,” a friend tells me. “This is when people who don’t have winter clothes put on absolutely everything they have.” I bike past a man wearing yellow socks and sweatpants topped with shorts. Another dons a full-body snowsuit saved from the former Soviet Union. Waves crash over the malecón as temperatures dip into the 50s.
Las continuas batallas de la memoria histórica en Guatemala
Como activista de derechos humanos, Angélica Macario estaba acostumbrada a los gritos y la música de las protestas y a ver a su pueblo llevar su clamor por la justicia desde las montañas de El Quiché hasta las calles de Ciudad de Guatemala.
Guatemala’s Ongoing Memory Battles
As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their clamor for justice from the mountains of El Quiché to the streets of Guatemala City. For the past 20 years, however, she has carried on that legacy in another way—one which began with her father and dozens of other community activists in the 1980s.
El auge del rodriguismo en Costa Rica
Read this article in English El primero de febrero, los costarricenses se dirigieron a las urnas para elegir un nuevo presidente y 57 miembros del congreso. Las elecciones, que fueron presentadas como un referéndum sobre la administración saliente de Rodrigo Chaves, otorgaron una victoria rotunda a su sucesora, Laura Fernández, quien obtuvo más del 48 por ciento de los votos. La campaña fue excepcionalmente controversial, en parte debido al gran número de candidatos.
Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (Review)
For over fifteen years, Mexican journalists have earned the unfortunate superlative of reporting under the world’s most dangerous conditions outside of an active war zone. In addition to generating significant concern about the viability of a critical press, this situation has raised a central paradox: as Mexico transitioned away from one-party rule and implemented greater electoral competitiveness, conditions for media workers have worsened.
¿Cómo está respondiendo América Latina a la Doctrina Donroe?
En noviembre de 2025 el gobierno de Estados Unidos presentó su nueva estrategia de seguridad nacional en la que define una nueva relación con América Latina, conocida ahora como el “Corolario Trump” de la doctrina Monroe, o Doctrina Donroe.
How is Latin America Responding to the Donroe Doctrine?
In November 2025, the U.S. government presented its new national security strategy, which defines a new relationship with Latin America.
The Rise of Rodriguismo in Costa Rica
On Sunday, February 1, Costa Ricans went to the polls to elect a new president and 57 members of congress. The election, which was framed as a referendum on the outgoing administration of Rodrigo Chaves, delivered a resounding victory to his chosen successor Laura Fernández, who secured over 48 percent of the vote. The campaign was unusually contentious, in part the product of a massive slate of candidates.
“Luciérnagas en El Mozote” y la batalla por la memoria histórica en El Salvador
Read this article in English El 11 de diciembre del 2025, se desplegó la alfombra roja en San Salvador para el estreno de la tan esperada película Luciérnagas en El Mozote. La película, que narra los acontecimientos de El Mozote, una de las masacres más violentas cometidas por un estado en la historia moderna de América Latina, se estrenó 44 años después de la matanza.
The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (Review)
Central America occupies a special place in the history of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). During the 1980s, NACLA activists traveled to the isthmus and played an important role in bringing attention to its revolutionary and counterrevolutionary upheavals.
An Unbowed Petro Successfully Plays the Diplomat
Early in the morning of February 2, Colombian President Gustavo Petro posted pictures on his Instagram account in which he can be seen descending from the presidential plane on a visibly cold runway in Washington D.C. The photos were the first official post from what was set to be one of the most anticipated international trips of Petro’s presidency: Petro, a former guerrilla leader whose country was U.S. bombs just last month, was visiting the Trump White House.
“Luciérnagas en El Mozote” And The Battle Over Historical Memory in El Salvador
On December 11, 2025, the red carpet was rolled out in San Salvador for the premier of the long anticipated film, Luciérnagas en El Mozote (Fireflies in El Mozote). The movie, which depicts the events of El Mozote—one of the most violent massacres committed by a state in modern Latin American history—was released 44 years to the day of the killing.
When the Bombs Fell on Caracas
On January 3, 2026, the United States invaded Venezuela and kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. It was the first US invasion of a Latin American country since the 1989 invasion of Panama. The United States fired missiles and bombs that blew out windows and hit residential apartment blocks. Helicopters. Explosions. Firebombs. They cut electricity. They destroyed a medical supplies warehouse. Testimonies say helicopters fired on innocent people.
Disability and Classical Education
Description Specifications Contributors TESTIMONIALS A proper understanding of disability is central both to the human condition and to leading classical Christian education forward. Thus, an adequate anthropology is needed to support a vision of the indivisible relationship between disability and a classical education in which all students are seen as valuable contributors to the learning community.
the intertwining of gender, sexuality and autism on Apple Podcasts
Kelly McCartney is a music journalist from Rhode Island, USA. She is 52 and self-diagnosed as autistic in April of 2022. She has turned a life-long special interest in music into an incredibly varied, 30-year career in almost every area of the music industry, including interning at Entertainment Tonight, working as personal assistant to various well known musicians, project managing independent artists, and hosting music podcasts and radio shows, including Record Bin Radio on Apple Music.
[82] S7, Ep2: God as a special interest: deconstructing religious identity as a newly identified autistic
D.L. Mayfield is a freelance writer from Portland, USA. She has written for Christian publications in the US for over 10 years, and is the author of several books, the latest of which, Unruly Saint, explores the life and work of the late American journalist, social activist and anarchist Catholic Dorothy Day. D.L. herself grew up highly religious in an evangelical family in the US.
Surviving
We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy. Beverly Gooden has written a brave, powerful, intimate book that takes us inside the dynamics of abusive relationships-why people stay, and how hard it can be to leave. The gift of Surviving is Beverly's honesty. Read Surviving to know that you are not alone in your own journey toward self-love after abuse.
Self diagnosis, burnout and mental health on Apple Podcasts
56 min My guest today is self diagnosed. Originally from Germany, she now lives in Finland with her teenage daughter, who is also autistic. In our conversation we talk about autism at school, raising an autistic child when you’re autistic yourself, the availability of adult diagnosis, having a connection with animals, introversion, burnout and mental health. 56 min
Cuba After Obama
This is the second piece in a three-part NACLA web series on President Obama’s trip to Cuba and Argentina in March 2016. Please click here to read historian Ada Ferrer’s reflection on Obama’s speech in Havana. Read the entire web series here. It is impossible to articulate the mix of emotions stirred by President Obama’s trip to Cuba last week. Jealousy is one, thanks to messages from friends witnessing history in Havana. Incredulidad, or disbelief, is another.
Color Away | North State Journal
By Amy Richards for the North State Journal March 13th, 2016 5:43 pm Lions, and monkeys, and bears—oh my! We’ve got an assortment of animals from the North Carolina Zoo to color in this week. As the weather gets warmer, the animals are out and about, ready for adventure! Which animal is your favorite?
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