Cold War

The recent biography chronicles the dynamic life and career of Chilean folklorista Violeta Parra.

Newly declassified CIA documents reveal the links between Mexico’s contemporary surveillance state and a uniquely close Cold War collaboration with U.S. intelligence agencies.

Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary relations with its Eastern European allies.

The recent book by Noam Chomsky and Vishay Prashad provides a critical analysis of the U.S. empire’s treatment of Cuba, from the Cuban Revolution to the present.

The 1979 Sandinista victory over the Somoza dictatorship sparked hope across Central America and beyond. Nicaragua quickly became ground zero of a violent U.S.-backed counterrevolutionary war.

U.S.-trained and sponsored state forces killed 200,000 mostly Indigenous Guatemalans in a genocide in the 1980s. Forty years later, justice remains elusive.

The dreams of a democratic Guatemala were dashed by a 1954 CIA coup against President Jacobo Arbenz spurred by the landed interests of the United Fruit Company.

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

Irina Carlota Silber's second book is a meditation on ethnography, politics, and El Salvador's post-insurgent generation.

Jim Popkin's Code Name Blue Wren recounts the astounding story of Defense Intelligence Agency mole Ana Montes, told by a veteran investigative reporter.

In the face of a new war in Europe, shoring up support in Latin America will not be as easy as the Biden administration thinks.

While the Global North has responded as a unified front to the war in Ukraine, in Latin America, countries are choosing their own paths.