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October 3, 2018
Brazil’s leftist parties have found a new kind of candidate: academics with a viral social media following.
October 3, 2018
A conversation with Fernando Haddad, the Lula-backed, Workers’ Party candidate for president about the Brazilian elite’s contempt for democracy and whether his party can return to power.
October 2, 2018
A 2002 discussion with Raúl Álvarez Garín, a survivor of the 1968 student massacre, on the ongoing legacy of state impunity in Mexico
October 1, 2018
Will president elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) bring justice to the families who were detained, disappeared, and killed during Mexico’s dirty war? He could start with the Cabañas family.
September 28, 2018
Coal mining in La Guajira, Colombia, has caused widespread devastation—physical, environmental, and cultural—for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. It is time for it to end.
September 27, 2018
The recent approval of a new oil concession in Ecuador fails to fulfill Indigenous rights enshrined in the country’s 2008 Constitution
September 24, 2018
Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis
September 21, 2018
A year since the Sept. 19 earthquakes roiled Mexico, homeless communities fight for their rights to habitable housing.
September 18, 2018
The electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has unleashed high hopes among progressives. But a look at his infrastructure policies raises deep concerns about his willingness to end neoliberal politics in Mexico.
September 17, 2018
While Cuba’s constitutional reform could help democratize the country, a new recently-enacted decree could lead to increased governmental censorship and repression in the arts.