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February 2, 2014
According to the CISPES electoral observation mission, which included delegates from the National Lawyers Guild, the American Association of Jurists and various U.S. universities, the electoral proceedings were calm and peaceful.
February 2, 2014
Most critics have failed to recognize the central role of neoliberalism in the Dominican Republic’s wave of anti-Black policies. The law has an underlying fear: the presence of the very Haitian migrants it depends on.
Border Wars
January 31, 2014
According to DHS’s numbers, apprehensions of Central American migrants increased by 55 percent in 2013 over the previous year, with data that indicates an exodus coming primarily from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
January 30, 2014
The color red bursts from the walls and from the clothes of hundreds of Salvadorans and Salvadoran-Americans who are gathered to welcome El Salvador’s Vice President, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the former guerilla commander of the FMLN and this party’s candidate for president in next year’s elections.
January 30, 2014
The only thing missing from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s speech at the UN General Assembly last month was “it still smells like sulfur.” These were the immortal words of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez in 2006.
Red Hot Burning Peace
January 28, 2014
One of the emblemetic organizations resisting violence in Colombia provides insight into deeper truths about the political economy of conflict in the country.
NACLA-CLACS Student Blog
January 28, 2014
When Argentina’s Supreme Court upheld in October a media law that takes on press monopolies while promoting diversity in media ownership, journalists in the English-speaking North covered it as a blow to press freedom.
January 27, 2014
Before I ever heard "marero," I vividly remember walking home from school in the late 1980s with my older brother and cousins and witnessing the rounding up of youth in our Los Angeles neighborhood.
January 24, 2014
In August 2013, Federal District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department (NYPD) practice of “stop-and-frisk” is unconstitutional because it violates the civil rights of blacks and Latinos who are disproportionately targets of the program.
January 23, 2014
In the mid-1970s the New York media alerted the public to a “Latin Boom” in the big city. Back then it was the salsa craze, the emergence of a new wave of politicians and activists, and the surpassing of the one million threshold in the Latino population.