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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one ...

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

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 ...

As the United States and its allies push renewed foreign intervention, the uses and abuses of the first Black republic as a testing ground of imperialism offer stark warnings. Haiti still struggles to ...

The road to achieving sustainable energy in Puerto Rico should not be paved by bulldozing agricultural lands and coastal plains.