When Eli Ramos crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, he was 17 years old and thousands of miles from his nearest family member. Entering the country as an unaccompanied minor, he would spend the next two ...
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 victory of Javier Milei in Argentina’s presidential elections last November exploded a veritable atomic bomb, whose shockwaves reach far beyond the Latin American country. The paleolibertarian ...
Leer este artículo en español. Bolivia’s most important political force since its 1952 revolution, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is tearing itself apart. Leadership rifts threaten not only the ...
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 ...
This piece appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of NACLA’s quarterly print magazine, the NACLA Report. Subscribe in print today! In November 2022, key figures of the Latin America Right gathered at an ...
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 ...
On November 28, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled a new contract with the Canadian firm operating Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine to be unconstitutional. Panamanians celebrated outside the ...
Ada Ferrer's latest book is a nuanced study tracing the importance of slavery to U.S. Cuba relations from American independence through the Civil War. In Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer tells ...
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 ...
If you live in a Mexican border city and have access to the U.S. market, goods, and even employment opportunities, you are more likely to have higher socioeconomic status in Mexico compared to ...