Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panama (Review)
One village's shift from subsistence farming community to link in the global economic chain offers important perspective on Panama's political, economic, and social transformations.
Guatemala on Trial: Maya Land Rights Case Reaches International Court
After a decades-long fight against transnational mining interests and state repression, the community's case could set a new precedent for Indigenous land and resource rights.
A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness
Garifuna women in New York City working to preserve life, culture, and history across borders and generations are part of a powerful lineage of resistance to anti-Blackness.
Maya Activist Groups Fight to Protect Indigenous Territorial Rights
The land defenders' struggle continues a 500-year effort to protect a living landscape beset by ongoing extractive colonialism.
Frontiers of Dispossession, Territories of Freedom
Read the editors' introduction to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report.
U.S. Policy Toward Central America Continues Legacy of Displacement (disponible en español)
U.S.-sponsored militarization and neoliberal policies will not lead to structural changes in Guatemala and instead preserve the status quo that forces many to migrate.
A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward
The charter of Honduras's first Economic Development and Employment Zone (ZEDE) reveals implications of the new enclave model for popular sovereignty.
Maya Communities Respond to Land Predation and FPIC Violation in Belize
Even after the Maya's watershed 2015 Caribbean Court of Justice land rights victory, the Government of Belize continues to condone land grabs in Indigenous territory.
Demands for Land and Housing Continue After Guernica Eviction
A land occupation on the outskirts of Buenos Aires showed the cracks in an increasingly unequal system and the resilience of community organization.
U.S. Archeologist Seeks to Privatize Maya Historic Sites in the Name of Conservation
Richard Hansen hopes to develop tourism in Petén's El Mirador archeological site, against the wishes of local communities and Guatemalan scientists.
AMLO Pushes Ahead on Militarized Megaprojects (disponible en español)
As the pandemic devastates the country, presidential priorities include a train circuit, pipeline infrastructure, and a refinery.
Garífuna Community Demands Return of Kidnapped Leaders
Five Garífuna men were kidnapped on July 18 in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras. Miriam Miranda of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras says authorities are complacent toward rising violence against the Garífuna people.
