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North American Congress in Latin America (NACLA) is a left-wing non-profit organization founded in 1966 to provide information on trends in Latin America and relations between Latin America and the United States.The organization is best known for publishing the quarterly NACLA Report on the Americas, and also publishes "books, anthologies and pamphlets for classroom and activist use". The NACLA Report on the Americas print magazine was briefly discontinued in 2015, but relaunched under the Taylor and Francis imprint Routledge in May 2016. For the last 50 years, NACLA has been a source of English-language news and analysis for journalists, policymakers, activists, students and scholars in North America and throughout the world. Source

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The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo (Review)

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By Rina Rossi
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One day, as a child on my way to the sea in Puerto Plata with my father, we traversed windy, remote mountain roads that seemed to have no end. Halfway through the trip, he pointed to my right where he told me was near where the Mirabal sisters, political revolutionaries who fought against the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, were murdered by the regime in 1960. It was an ominous feeling to be so close to where such a violent event had occurred.
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The Amazon’s Invisible Crisis: How Environmental Crime Is Reshaping Humanitarian Emergencies

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By Ludmila Quirós
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Illegal gold mining in the Amazon in Madre de Dios, Peru / Large-scale illegal gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon, in Madre de Dios (Coordenação-Geral de Observação da Terra/INPE, CC BY-SA 2.0) Until a few years ago, Oxapampa—a natural paradise in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon region of Pasco—was considered a peaceful place where tourists arrived to explore its biodiverse rivers and mountain trails. However, during the last decade, things have been changing.
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The New Litmus Test for Sovereign Governance: ISDS Arbitration

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By Logan McMillen
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Venezuela’s sweeping new mining law, passed on April 9, is the latest in a series of domestic “reforms” purportedly directed at rebuilding the country’s energy and mining sectors.
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A Political Turn in Honduras Endangers Maya Chorti Culture

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By Anna Ortiz
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In December 2025, nearly one month after the initial vote, Honduras finally declared Nasry Asfura its new president. The right-wing candidate, backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, came to power promising to reverse the policies of his left-wing predecessor, Xiomara Castro. Indigenous communities like the Maya Chorti in the department of Copán immediately felt the changes.
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Bukele, El rey desnudo (Review)

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By Sonja Wolf
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El Salvador, long known for its history of political and gang violence, has in recent years made headlines for its authoritarian turn under President Nayib Bukele. The country’s leader is a carefully crafted media product whose much-vaunted achievements are little more than publicity stunts, argues Óscar Martínez, Editor-in-Chief of the investigative news site El Faro and author of previous works on violence, gangs, migration, and journalism in Central America.
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Migración, seguridad y la política del miedo en Chile

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By Yasna Mussa
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Este artículo fue publicado en inglés en la edición de primavera de 2026 de nuestra revista trimestral la NACLA Report. Son pasadas las diez de la noche y la oscuridad cubre el paisaje desértico, apenas interrumpida por algunas luces de la torre de control del Aeropuerto Internacional Chacalluta, en Arica, la ciudad más al norte de Chile. Una vía ferroviaria cruza la carretera que une este recinto con la zona urbana.
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Ecos de Trump 2.0 en América del Sur: Tránsitos de regreso y otras súbitas repercusiones socioeconómicas locales

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By Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Jonathan Zuluaga, Henry Esquivel Babilonia
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Este artículo fue publicado en inglés en la edición de primavera de 2026 de nuestra revista trimestral la NACLA Report. “Por aquí ya no vienen migrantes que quieran llegar a los Estados Unidos, el cruce por la selva se acabó”, nos cuenta doña Jacinta, residente de Necoclí, municipio costero del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. “Quienes llegan son los devueltos, pero en Necoclí no se quedan, se van derecho. No sé si a otros lugares en Colombia o a otros países, pero aquí ya no están.
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Borders Can’t Contain Us Web Collection

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By Julianne Chandler, Susi Maresca
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Ser migrante en la Argentina de Milei Viejos discursos anti migrantes son reactivados para criminalizar la movilidad y encubrir una agenda de ajuste brutal y empobrecimiento. El corolario Trump se inaugura en Venezuela Esta operación marca el inicio de una nueva era en la intervención estadounidense, redefiniendo el poder imperial a través del dominio tecnológico, la guerra cognitiva y la erosión de la soberanía en todo el mundo.
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Tapachula: A Prison City Where North Meets South

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By Julianne Chandler
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This piece appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! Lea este artículo en español. For more than two decades, the southern Mexican city of Tapachula has served as a quiet hinge in the architecture of hemispheric migration control. Located just north of the Guatemala-Mexico border connecting North and Central America, Tapachula has long been a site of transit, refuge, and labor for Central American migrants.
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Tapachula: Una ciudad-prisión donde el Norte se encuentra con el Sur

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By Julianne Chandler
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Este artículo fue publicado en inglés en la edición de primavera de 2026 de nuestra revista trimestral la NACLA Report. Read this article in English. Durante más de dos décadas, la ciudad de Tapachula, en el sur de México, ha funcionado como una bisagra silenciosa en la arquitectura del control migratorio hemisférico.
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