Criminalization & Repression

For the vast majority in the Southern Cone countries, the coups of the past ten years have meant sudden and

MEXICO CITY. France and Germany in Europe, Brazil and Uruguay in Latin America; now the last outbreak of this synchronized

NO ANALYSIS OF THE SALVADOREAN crisis can ignore the ubiquitous presence of the United States in the nation's affairs: that

Social movements have long been a fixture on the Latin American landscape. Indeed, at the very time that NACLA was

THE FORCES ARRAYED AGAINST EACH other in the civil war are sharply defined; the op- posing blocs illustrate clearly that

The United States is best known as the world’s largest market for drugs and, of course, as the main promoter,

When Argentina's Minister of Economy, Martinez de Hoz, returned to Buenos Aires at the end of February after spending a

Last year, when residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A town assembly was called. Community members expressed outrage that the water company's $7 per month bill always arrived on time, but taps barely flowed. When they did, the liquid that came out was an ugly brown.

Patricia Isasa has fought for justice and transparency for over 30 years. At the time of her kidnapping, July of 1976, architect Patricia Isasa was 16 years old. She was abducted by an Argentine commando group of the provincial police and taken to one of the 375 clandestine detention and torture centers set up during the dictatorship.