The movement against racist immigration policing and the detention of child migrants in San Diego in the 1980s offers important lessons in keeping open borders at the forefront of activism.
Known as the epicenter of anti-austerity rebellion during Bolivia’s Gas War, El Alto remains a powerful example of the potential for local movements to leverage their cities to shape national politics.
Learn about the Black experience in Chile and the Afro-Chilean social movement pushing for recognition in the pending Constitutional reform.
Artistic expression is not only central to the protests in Chile—it's part of a long national tradition of resistance.
Read the Editor's Intro to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report, Radical Cities, focused on municipalism, housing movements, and local radical democracy in Latin America, from Mexico City to Montevideo.
Record fires in Brazil’s Amazon this year marked a political protest led by ranchers who, already empowered under Bolsonaro’s government, are keen to push the government to fully embrace a dictatorship-era extractive doctrine.
As Colombian demonstrators clamor for inclusive policies, genuine peace, and respect for human rights, the elite recycle discourses decrying “vandalism” that aim to delegitimize dissent.
Electo bajo una plataforma progresista, el gobierno del presidente Lenín Moreno ha recurrido a la politización de la justicia y a la militarización de la política para reprimir a sus viejos aliados y electores.