From the Mayan Highlands to the borderlands of La Moskitia, from Brooklyn living rooms to the port cities of New Orleans, Colón, and Baltimore, Central America is a nexus of cultures and geographies, an expansive meeting point of knowledges or saberes. The Summer 2025 issue of the NACLA Report explores the forms by which Central Americans produce the region and its knowledges, underscoring ongoing contestations over memory, history, and self-description in the pursuit of belonging and the articulation of collective futures.
The following pieces are web exclusives articles published as part of this special issue. Read the editor’s introduction for more, and expore the full issue here.
Web Exclusives
La Horchata and Queer Diasporic Collectivity
A zine envisioned by and for Central Americans is reshaping what it means to be Central American in the diaspora through a spirit of acompañamiento, inclusivity, and collective becoming.
“Caminxs del Sur”: A Sonic-Collage for the Isthmus
Sensing the pluriverse through sound and movement, this audio-visual archive for the future reimagines Central American survival, displacement, and femme worldmaking from below.
Can the Youth Speak? The Inter-generational Politics of the Afro-Panamanian Movement
Drawing from student resistance in the 1970s, a new generation of Black Panamanian organizers is confronting environmental racism and forging a radical, intersectional movement for justice, identity, and systemic change.
Open Access
“Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth”
In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.
Monuments of Mourning: Remembering the Victims of the Key Bridge Collapse
After the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland took the lives of six Central American and Mexican men, a grieving community built a memorial to remember them.
Epistemic Violence and the Struggle for Moskitian Historical Memory
Through radio broadcasts and digital archives, Moskitian activists are reclaiming their history, resisting settler colonial erasure, and forging a transnational movement for sovereignty across the western Caribbean.
From Anti-War to Anti-Immigrant
Once vocal advocates for workers’ rights in war-torn El Salvador, some Albany labor activists turned against Central American migrants at home—fueling exclusionary narratives that persist today.
En Español
Nuestra existencia, nuestra memoria
Desde Tegucigalpa a Buenos Aires y Nueva Orleans, el Archivo Honduras Cuir preserva y celebra la vida trans y cuir a través de la memoria, la resistencia y la solidaridad transnacional.
Regímenes que le apuestan a la otredad
En la Guatemala de la era de la guerra civil, la Policía Nacional recopiló álbumes fotográficos de todas las personas que etiquetó como subversivas. Hoy, ese legado de criminalización sigue vigente.
“Las Rejas No Callarán la Verdad”
En El Salvador, el movimiento de familiares de personas privadas de libertad sostiene una lucha por una comunidad que ha sido despojada de su humanidad. En el proceso, está reimaginando la justicia.
El Legado del Papa Francisco
El primer Papa latinoamericano desafió la tradición y el poder católico con una doctrina de humildad e inclusión, volviendo a centrarse radicalmente en los pobres y marginados.
El resultado electoral en Ecuador: una mirada desde el ecofeminismo
El triunfo de Noboa consolida una extrema derecha misógina, extractivista, y subordinada al poder imperial con efectos graves para mujeres y territorios.