Re-Haitianizing Haitian Freedom: What Will It Take?
A framework for confronting imperial narratives and rebuilding Haiti through local knowledge and collective power.
Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (Review)
The political and business history of Mexico’s beleaguered critical press, caught between drug traffickers and the state, is the subject of Andrew Paxman’s new book.
Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (Review)
Paloma Duong's book explores Cuba's changing media landscape's effect on local and global perceptions of the country by analyzing popular Cuban music and recent leftist travel literature on Cuba.
U.S. Media Provides Biased Coverage of Cuban and Colombian Protests
An analysis of how two major U.S. newspapers presented the civil unrest in Latin America this year demonstrates how corporate media favors political allies and blames enemies.
El Chapo: Debunking Myths to Interrogate the Drug War
"I want the reader to understand that this is bigger than El Chapo and it's bigger than drugs," says Noah Hurowitz of his new book.
After Moïse Assassination, Popular Sectors Must Lead the Way
Analysis the day after the Haitian president's assassination focused on liberal constitutionalism and elections. This narrow view overlooks the longstanding demands from organized popular sectors.
Narcos Mexico Is Not the Education We Need (Review)
It is very rare to have U.S. audience attention centered on Mexico. Unfortunately, Narcos Mexico squanders the opportunity.
Machista Media Get it Wrong on Feminist Protests in Mexico (Interview)
As Mexican activists protest injustice in cases of gendered violence, a new collective criticizes the media's failures to adequately cover violence against women and urges newsrooms to adopt a gender perspective in reporting on feminist issues.
El Chapo and the Narco-Spectacle
El Chapo's trial continues this week, brimming with sordid tales of kingpins and cartels. But what the media spectacle can't justify is a failing "war on drugs" that has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Organizers Who Never Gave Up on the Cuban Five
An interview with Alicia Jrapko, co-founder of the International Committee to Free the Cuban Five, on how persistence pays in uphill political struggles.
Choosing Lima’s New Mayor amid Scandal and Transit Reform
How right-wing media attacks, a forgery scandal, and commuter dissatisfaction will decide Lima's mayoral election.
The (Institutionalized) Revolution Will Be Televised
In "Muy Buenas Noches": Mexico, Television and the Cold War, Celeste González de Bustamente traces back to the Cold War how Mexican broadcast journalism, dominated by Televisa, helped the PRI craft a cultural hegemony that founded decades of one-party rule.
