As environmental crimes threaten Indigenous communities in the Amazon, their struggles are ignored by a humanitarian system ...

In the decades before Hugo Chávez’s election as president in 1998, university students were often at the forefront of some of the most radical left movements in Venezuela. In the Chávez era, campuses ...

Leer este artículo en español. Nayib Bukele has changed the map of political pluralism in El Salvador. On February 4, in elections full of irregularities, the president was unconstitutionally ...

The Mexico City metropolitan area is so enormous it almost had two time zones. In 2001, the head of the government for the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador now Mexican president refused ...

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 ...

Al Qaeda. The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel. Feminist collectives. Students of the Ayotzinapa teacher training school. So reads a list of groups that could pose a threat to the operations of the ...

At the endpoint of the Afobaka paved road from Paramaribo, past the abandoned aluminum processing plants, stands Atjoni, a small town in central Suriname. The town’s quay is a busy hub, visited by ...

In a win for historic protests against a controversial transnational copper mine, Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled the project’s contract unconstitutional. For weeks, unrest centered on the immediate ...

It was not a surprise in Miami, where recent immigrants may vociferously oppose immigration, deny racism, find the idea of free healthcare and education distasteful, and admire Trump. But the Florida ...

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 August 20, Ecuador made history with a 59 percent vote in support of a popular referendum to stop petroleum drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet. “It ...

January 1, 2019 marked 25 years since the Zapatistas captured the world’s imagination with their brief but audacious uprising to demand justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in southern Mexico ...