Will you support NACLA in 2024?
In 2024, NACLA has continued to cover important news, scholarship, and movements of resistance and solidarity across Latin America and the Caribbean. For our web coverage, we reported on building a hemispheric approach to confront Anti-Haitianism, midwives addressing maternal health gaps in Mexico, university mobilizations in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s budget cuts to public universities, Latine solidarity movements for Palestine, environmental extractivism in Brazil — part of an ongoing collaboration with Earthworks, trans rights in Colombia, and much more. This past year also saw major electoral processes across the hemisphere, including the election of Mexico's first woman president, Uruguay's run-off vote, Venezuela's turbulent election, presidential elections in the Dominican Republic and Panama, and Puerto Rico's gubernatorial vote. Finally, Trump's electoral victory in the United States in November poses challenges—and opportunities—for the Latin American Left.
NACLA also co-produced a podcast with Mike Fox and The Real News, Under the Shadow, about the history and legacies of U.S. intervention in Central America. In our 2024 volume of NACLA's Report on the Americas, we explored the new far right in Latin America and the Caribbean, the afterlife of disapperance, processes of plurinationalism from below, and transcontinential encounters between Abya Yala and Palestine.
Here is a list of our most memorable pieces from this year. Support our work to help us bring you more quality analysis and reporting in 2025.
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta: 10 Years of Fracking and Local Resistance
Patricia Rodríguez | January 15, 2024
With another oil and gas bonanza brewing and a new far-right president in the Casa Rosada, people-led proposals for a just energy transition are more urgent than ever. Read more.
Beyond Transportation, Panama's Diablos Rojos Are Treasured Rolling Artwork
Grant Burrier and Sarah Saeed | March 29, 2024
Panama City's iconic red devil buses are beloved by local communities, but face competing visions of modernity. Read more.
When the Earth Loses its Stewards
Alexia Gardner and Alex Reep | April 3, 2024
More than 1 million Colombians have been forced to flee their territories since the 2016 peace accords. As extractive industries and armed groups capitalize on displacement, biodiversity suffers. Read more.
Honduras: A Narco-State Made in the United States
Laura Blume | April 17, 2024
Although Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking in a New York court, the United States has yet to own up to its role in fostering state-sponsored drug trafficking in Honduras. Read more.
“They’re Making It up as They Go”: Inside the Response to Brazil’s Deadly Floods
Michael Fox | May 8, 2024
Climate change and poor disaster preparedness have exacerbated the impacts of historic floods that have left parts of southern Brazil underwater. Read more.
“They Underestimated the Student Movement”: Paraguayan Youth Fight to Defend Affordable Education
William Costa | May 14, 2024
Education subsidy funding changes sparked mass protests. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table. Read more.
Victims Win Historic Victory Against Chiquita in Colombia Paramilitary Case
Daniela Díaz Rangel and Joshua Collins | June 12, 2024
The ruling against the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit makes history in holding a U.S. company liable for abuses committed abroad. Lawyers say the case is just the beginning. Read more.
A Tapestry of Missing Migrants Stitches a Memory of the Disappeared
Madeleine Wattenbarger | July 18, 2024
More than 5,000 migrants have died or disappeared attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border over the last decade. Families embroider the names of their missing loved ones as a way of telling their stories. Read more.
Christian Zionism in Bukele’s El Salvador
Isabel Rikkers and Noelle Brigden | October 9, 2024
President Nayib Bukele’s framing of security as a spiritual battle between good and evil helps to explain his popularity and his support for Israel. Read more.
The Struggle for Energy Sovereignty in Puerto Rico's Gubernatorial Elections
Jaden A. Morales | November 1, 2024
In Puerto Rico, debates over energy sovereignty and the political struggle for self-determination take center stage in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Read more.
Gabriel Rodríguez García | November 14, 2024
Bolivia’s economic and political crisis is a symptom of the moral decay of the Movement Towards Socialism party, putting into question its once revolutionary promises and horizons. Read more.
