Editors’ Picks 2025: The Best of NACLA’s Online Coverage

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In 2025, the Trump administration launched an unprecedented attack on immigrant rights while targeting the region with sanctions and missiles. Across the Americas, right-wing leaders slashed budgets and stoked anti-migrant sentiment, while progressive governments fought to defend humane alternatives. NACLA was there to cover it. 

Our web coverage has tracked the administration’s war on migrants, from dismantling asylum protections for Honduran women and weaponizing the  “War on Drugs,” to disappearing deportees in a Salvadoran mega-prison and criminalizing Venezuelans. We also covered anti-ICE struggles in the United States while exposing regional parallels, including the rise of neofascism in the Dominican Republic and the Mexican government’s militarization of migration.  

Yet 2025 also saw powerful resistance: Panamanians opposing social security reform and U.S. imperialism; Mexican buscadoras challenging impunity; Palestine solidarity movements pressuring their governments to sever ties with Israel. In South America, Ecuadorians opposed authoritarianism in the streets and at the ballot box, Peru’s Gen Z protesters joined frontline activists against corruption, and Argentine pensioners confronted austerity. Across the region, Indigenous communities mobilized to defend their rights—in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Honduras, Chile, and Colombia.

Here is a list of some of our most memorable pieces from 2025. Support our work to help us bring you more on-the-ground reporting and analysis in 2026.

Buscadoras in Mexico Under Threat After Grisly Discovery

Joshua Collins and Daniela Diaz Rangel

News of a mass grave found by civilian search collectives has reopened an old debate about a lack of political will on the part of authorities to investigate violent crime.    

Neofascist March Calls for the Expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana

Simón Rodríguez

A recent violent and destructive march calling for the expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana demonstrates the vehement anti-Haitianism and rising fascism prevalent in the Dominican Republic.

Indigenous Women Survivors of Guatemala’s Rape Camps Seek Justice

Jo-Marie Burt

Forty years after surviving state violence, Maya Achi women return to court to demand justice, challenging a long legacy of impunity for crimes against humanity.

Trump’s War on Venezuelans: From Operation Aurora to Operation Southern Spear

Isabel María Villalón

How a Colorado slumlord’s lie about Venezuelan gangs was leveraged by the Trump administration to detain thousands, deploy warships, and rewrite the rules of immigration enforcement.

Struggling Pensioners Lead the Charge Against Milei’s Austerity Agenda

Josefina Salomón and Patricio A. Cabezas

Unprecedented state violence against retirees and their allies has failed to quash popular discontent at the increasing precarity of life in Argentina.

Why Colombia’s First Legal Coca Lab Failed

Eduardo Echeverri López

An Indigenous Nasa community set out to offer farmers an alternative to the drug trade, but the project collapsed under the weight of U.S. pressure and international prohibitions.

Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border

Alexander Aviña

Reflections on empire, genocide, and the violence that has come home to roost.

On Peru’s Frontline, Ordinary Citizens Face Extraordinary Violence

Raisa Ferrer Pizarro

The dedicated protesters who make up the “primera línea” are fighting for a new Peru—and confronting lethal state repression.

U.S. Government Eliminates Legal Protections for Honduran Women

Laura Blume and Anna Storm

A series of recent legal decisions on gender-based violence further reveals the Trump administration’s depravity—and sentences vulnerable asylum-seeking women to their death.

From Colombia to Ukraine’s Front Lines

Tony Kirby and Anna Abraham

As more Colombians fight and die in foreign wars, their loved ones push the government for help in finding out their fate.