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May 10, 2023

Twenty-one years after the Bojayá Massacre destroyed their town, survivors in the community of Bellavista Nueva in northwestern Colombia recount their story on their own terms.  

May 5, 2023

Santiago Mitre’s feature film about holding the perpetrators of dictatorship accountable in Argentina humanizes a pivotal moment in Latin American—and world—history.

May 2, 2023

President Guillermo Lasso’s Commission for Penitentiary Dialogue and Pacification was a failure. Now, a new Prison Observatory seeks to generate broad-based solutions to Ecuador’s prison crisis.

May 1, 2023

The expansion of the Surf City tourism project towards the eastern and unexploited part of the country raises concerns over democracy, sustainability, and land ownership.

April 28, 2023

In his new book, historian Javier Puente chronicles how rural communities in the Andean highlands played a key role in the making of state power in twentieth-century Peru.

April 26, 2023

Para la/os líderes/as de la principal organización indígena de Colombia, la elección de Gustavo Petro y Francia Márquez ha marcado una gran victoria. Pero, la movilización continúa.

April 21, 2023

In this collection of testimony, poetry, short stories, and analysis, Marisa Ruiz Trejo examines Chiapas, Central America, and the Caribbean through a critical feminist perspective.

April 20, 2023

The fire that killed 40 people on March 27 is the foreseeable consequence of binational immigration enforcement measures by the United States and Mexico.

April 17, 2023

Organizers from the immigrant rights group Cosecha Indiana push to make Indiana the 19th state to expand access to driver’s licenses to undocumented residents.

April 14, 2023

Although Mexico’s electoral institute was originally born out of struggles for democracy, it has since become a guardian of the neoliberal Mexican state.

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