Rio de Janeiro’s poor communities face increasing vulnerability as armed groups expand control of entire neighborhoods, operating illicit businesses from protection rackets to real estate, with dire consequences for local residents living under a violent parallel state.
Las comunidades marginalizadas de Rio de Janeiro enfrentan cada vez mas vulnerabilidad como consecuencia de los grupos armados que expandan su control de barrios enteros, operando negocios ilícitos con impactos serios para los habitantes viviendo bajo un estado paralelo violento.
A dictatorship-era torturer is suing one of his victims in Brazil in a stark reminder of how Bolsonaro emboldens rights abusers.
Join us on February 5th at Word Up Books for a free screening of Código Color, Memorias (2015) and ¿Grandes Ligas? (2008), part of the Documentales Sociales en las Américas series.
Closing its doors after over half a century of promoting internationalism from Havana, the Organization in Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America leaves a historical and artistic record of unprecedented Third World solidarity.
Cerrando sus puertas después de mas de medio ciclo de promover el internacionalismo desde La Habana, la Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de África, Asia y América deja un registro histórico y artístico de solidaridad tricontinental sin precedentes.
Recent earthquakes and aftershocks in Puerto Rico generate overwhelming evidence of the urgent need for community-directed renewable energy.
Join NACLA and Brooklyn for Peace on Tuesday, January 28th at the Brooklyn Commons for a community forum featuring Pamela Calla and Zeeshan Aleem.
One notorious detention center for unaccompanied immigrant children has shuttered. But the only way to ensure safety and dignity for all immigrant children is to insist on the abolition of detention.
As violence soars in Mexico, a controversial policy to crack down on crime is disproportionately affecting low-income individuals without improving public safety.