The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...

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Anger at neoliberal austerity, Canadian mining corruption, and U.S. imperialism have converged into a powerful protest movement.

The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan ...

A new radical right with links to the dictatorship has made unprecedented gains. So far, the country's strong democracy has tempered its worst impacts.

Labor unions and social movements across Peru, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Mexico have taken to the streets in mass combative struggle against decades of neoliberal policies that seek to convert ...

Police and military presence in El Estor during the crackdown on anti-mining communities, October 23, 2021. (Baudilio Choc, corresponsal de Radio Victoria, la voz de los pueblos) On October 23, ...

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, ...

On July 5, 2012, the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He ...

This past September President Joe Biden renewed the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, thereby extending into the 62 nd year the regimen of punitive sanctions. The policy, as Assistant Secretary of ...

When will the Biden administration change its pattern of ignoring blatant human rights violations and the deterioration of democracy in Latin America?