It appears likely New York City will elect a democratic socialist as its next mayor. Some say this would amount to the greatest victory for the US Left in its history. What could a democratic socialist mayor accomplish? What obstacles would have to be overcome? How might this unfold? This panel will sketch some possible […]
In the first narrative history of Mexico’s contemporary press, Andrew Paxman traces how the Mexican media has responded since the 1980s to outright state hostility and major threats to its existence—including a war on drugs that made Mexico the riskiest country for reporters outside a combat zone, a decline in revenue as readers and advertisers migrated to the internet, and a partial return […]
Following four months of maritime siege, during which U.S. military forces killed more than 100 people in alleged anti-drug operations in the Caribbean, the Trump administration launched a large-scale attack on Venezuelan territory in the early hours of January 3, resulting in dozens of fatalities and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, […]
This issue of the NACLA Report examines the consolidation of a hemispheric bordering regime whose violence now extends far beyond any single boundary line. Across the Americas, border enforcement operates through infrastructure projects, detention systems, policing practices, and migration controls that reshape everyday life within and across national territories. Under Trump’s second presidency, these logics have […]
