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July 10, 2024
Since the outbreak of the largest protests seen in nearly three decades, the Cuban government has tightened its grip on the economy, further reducing citizens’ freedoms.
July 9, 2024
The abolition of Costa Rica's military 75 years ago has been highly celebrated at home and abroad. Yet the story is more complicated than the myth lets on.
July 9, 2024
Traditional midwives have won the right to issue birth certificates, a key step toward addressing maternal health gaps in Indigenous communities. But their fight for protections and autonomy continues.
July 5, 2024
Machado is not the godsend for the opposition portrayed by the media and her close supporters. But opposition leaders have more cause for hope than in the past.
June 28, 2024
Mexico City’s former chief of police is believed to have participated in the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014. A decade later, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is poised to make him Mexico’s most powerful policeman.
June 28, 2024
A general and his troops stormed the seat of government in an apparent coup attempt. Three theories have emerged in a context of economic turmoil and political infighting within the ruling party.
June 27, 2024
Approved amid harsh repression of protesters, the economic scheme at the heart of the Argentine government’s flagship legislation hands big perks to multinationals at the expense of territories, peoples, and the environment.
June 27, 2024
Aprobado en medio de una dura represión, el esquema económico en el corazón de la legislación emblemática del gobierno les da grandes beneficios a las multinacionales a costo de los territorios, pueblos y el medio ambiente.
June 27, 2024
A transnational adoptee born in El Salvador and raised in the United States shared his journey to uncovering his family's truth and finding his voice as a desaparecido.
June 27, 2024
Among the unanswered questions about the military’s response to the 1985 attack on the seat of the judiciary is what happened to the disappeared victims. New research sheds light on the role of an unassuming museum.