Australia’s Intelligence Organizations Helped Overthrow the Allende Government in 1973
Recently declassified documents confirm what researchers have long claimed: that Australian intelligence worked with the CIA to instigate a coup in Chile during the Cold War.
“We Are Here by Force”: Maya Ixil Activists Fight for Asylum and Justice
The stories of two Guatemalan asylum seekers highlight the deep roots of forced migration from Central America and the U.S. role in the ongoing displacement.
Remembering Guatemala’s Martyr of Justice: An Interview with Francisco Goldman
Out now in documentary form, The Art of Political Murder presents a riveting narrative reconstruction of one of Latin America's most controversial and bizarre criminal cases: the killing of Guatemala's great human rights champion, Bishop Juan Gerardi.
From Police Reform to Police Repression: 50 Years after an Assassination
The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.
Pinochet-era Intelligence Agent Faces Extradition from Australia
Adriana Rivas served in the Chilean intelligence agency under dictator Augusto Pinochet. This month, an Australian court will decide whether she will be extradited Chile.
The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)
A review of The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, which traces the history of the Cold War from the perspective of two often overlooked countries: Indonesia and Brazil.
A 30-Year Quest for Justice in Peru
In 1989, a military commander raped a schoolteacher in Oxapampa the same night her husband was killed by a military brigade. Since then, like many other women in Peru, Raquel Martin is still looking for just reparations, 30 years later.
Guatemala: Impunity for War Criminals, Again
Guatemala is poised to pass a law reversing its National Reconciliation Law, which prohibits amnesty for those who committed international crimes during the country's civil war. Who benefits from blanket amnesty?
Making Visible the Weapons of Empire
How early research on the shadowy machinations of U.S. security aid and arms sales shaped NACLA's solidarity with Latin Americaa web-only feature for our 50th anniversary issue.
El Salvador’s Worst Shitholes Are ‘Made in America’
U.S. policies helped create gang culture in El Salvador, a country with no previous history of U.S.-style gangs and gang warfare.
Cuba After the Gold Rush
What has been the role of U.S. commercial interests in ending the U.S. embargo on Cuba?
From One Disaster to Another? Mexico’s Cold War and the War on Drugs
Does Mexico's Cold War experience offer lessons for ending the country's disastrous Drug War?
