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June 3, 2013
Noam Chomsky is the 2012 recipient of NACLA's Latin America Peace and Justice Award for his ongoing commitment to social justice in the Americas. Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a long time friend and supporter of NACLA.
June 3, 2013
Rius is the 2012 recipient of NACLA's La Conciencia del Pueblo Award for educating and informing readers through his artwork about progressive causes in the Americas. A longtime NACLA collaborator, Rius is a Mexican intellectual and political cartoonist who has published over 100 books that defend migrant workers, indigenous peoples, and the underprivileged, among others.
June 3, 2013
Javier Sicilia is the recipient of NACLA's "La Lucha Sigue" Award for Activism in the Americas. One of Mexico's most prominent poets, essayists, and novelists, and a regular contributor to La Jornada newspsper and Proceso magazine, Javier Sicilia's work has become an important reference for Latin American human rights causes.
Cuadernos Colombianos
June 3, 2013
The United States has historically played a critical role in Colombia's civil war due to its special links with its military that were cemented through Plan Colombia.
May 31, 2013
On July 5, 2012, the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He was 62. Trouillot leaves behind a rich body of work striking in its compelling prose, intellectual sophistication, theoretical rigor, and disciplinary innovation.
Border Wars
May 28, 2013
Taide Elena continues to fight for justice, six months after the U.S. Border Patrol shot and killed her 16-year-old grandson, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, in Nogales, Sonora.
May 28, 2013
Like their conservative neighbors, left-leaning governments are entangled in Latin America’s renewed dependence on natural-resource extraction. It is not clear whether these regimes can pursue the deepening of social, political, and economic democratization while they are still resource pools for the destructive global assault on nature and the climate.
May 24, 2013
In recent years, Honduras has become a chief transit point for drugs bound for Mexico and the United States. Local gangs, like the Mara Salvatrucha, often collaborate with Mexican drug cartels and have far more power and authority in most parts of Honduras than police. The combined lawlessness has caused Honduras to become the country with the world’s highest murder rate.
Rebel Currents
May 23, 2013
As Bolivia inaugurates its first natural gas liquids separation plant, an important step towards the industrialization of gas, its obligations to Brazil—the major consumer of Bolivia's gas—pose a significant challenge.
Border Wars
May 22, 2013
On May 21, the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded debate on the “Gang of 8” immigration reform proposal. A significant component of the bill is a set of “border security triggers” that Homeland Security would have to accomplish before the pathway to legalization and citizenship would become available for most immigrants.