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July 19, 2018
Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with much aid delayed, the local economy has collapsed, and the presence of a newly formed dissident FARC group threatens more violence.
July 11, 2018
After the elections in Venezuela, what are the next steps for the government and its internal opponents?
July 11, 2018
Marichuy never really aimed to become president of Mexico. Instead, her campaign brought together resistance movements to focus attention on troubling realities facing Mexico's Indigenous and dispossessed communities.
July 10, 2018
An interview with two members of the Cimarronez collective, which carried out recovery projects in Oaxaca, Morelos, and Puebla in the wake of the September 2017 earthquakes that roiled Mexico.
Border Wars
July 6, 2018
One mother’s recent deportation to her native Honduras reflects how the U.S. immigration regime not only separates families, but impels them to migrate to the United States in the first place.
Border Wars
July 5, 2018
On the U.S.-Mexico border, the Tohono O’odham Nation is forming a transnational movement to resist salt mining projects in the Gulf of California.
July 4, 2018
After an election with 3,400 positions in contest, Mexico stands poised for profound changes under the leadership of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
July 3, 2018
It took Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) 12 years to become president-elect of Mexico, making history for Mexico’s Left as his party’s coalition also achieves a legislative majority. But the struggle has only just begun.
Border Wars
July 2, 2018
The Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility set the stage institutionally and legally for Trump’s family separation policies on the U.S.-Mexico border.